Spoilers ahead Outdoor benches season 4 part 2 ends up ahead. Although four seasons of Outdoor benches saw the crew survive kidnappings, gunfights, motorcycle accidents, plane crashes and tropical storms, the final episode ending tragically with a Pogue death. Season 4 of Netflix’s low-key, ridiculous teen soap follows the teen treasure hunters as they search for Blackbeard’s long-lost Blue Crown, pitting them against the season’s big bad (and JJ’s biological father) Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane). ). In the feature-length finale, the show’s main group of friends faced the devastating loss of one of their own and officially entered their revenge era for the upcoming fifth and final season.

Read on for our overview of the devastating death at the end of Outdoor benches season 4, including what the cast and crew have to say about the big twist, and why fans theorize that behind-the-scenes drama could have led to a leading actor’s departure.

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