
“I didn’t film there, but I had to come say hi,” he says.īut long before that, Stokes had a conversation with the creators where they revealed some very important news to him - that John B’s dad is alive. “He was fantastic.” Even Austin North (Topper) made it down to visit for a weekend when he wasn’t busy restaurant-hopping in South Carolina with Starkey. Standout experiences on the Caribbean island included evenings listening to music and sipping rum and Cokes at Dina’s, a classic seafood spot on the east side, and, for Pankow, befriending a horse named Vendingo on the beach. While the Pogues could have only dreamt of air-conditioned surf shops when they were in Poguelandia, the cast had a far more comfortable experience filming in real life in Barbados. (Cline thinks Sarah is still “giving noob” when it comes to surfing, though.) In the last scenes of the Season 3 finale, we discover that Kiara is out saving sea turtles (as the series pilot predicted), while Sarah is working at a surf shop with John B. “I love it because it gives us a fresh start for the next season,” says Bailey. While Blackbeard looms on the horizon, the next chapter for the Pogues will notably pick up after sprinting 18 months ahead. “It was a whole segment of our history class in eighth grade that we just were learning about pirates, and Blackbeard was a big deal.” “It’s cool that they’re tying the treasure hunt back into history rooted in North Carolina,” Bailey says. Raised in South Carolina and North Carolina respectively, both Madelyn Cline (Sarah) and Madison Bailey (Kiara) recall the Blackbeard legend being an important part of the region’s past. But at least this time it’ll be closer to home, since the Pogues’ next treasure target seems to be Blackbeard’s ship, which supposedly sunk off the coast of the Outer Banks in “North Cackalack,” as Carlacia Grant (Cleo) calls it. Let’s just use your words, not your fists.”Īnd if that road leads to a new treasure hunt, then so be it. But it should be a counseling session between the two of them.

“Nothing Rafe does can shock me anymore,” says Starkey. For the record, Starkey himself wasn’t that surprised that Rafe melted down a priceless historical artifact. That win is particularly important to Pope after Rafe (Drew Starkey) sacrilegiously burns his ancestor Denmark Tanny’s Cross of Santo Domingo down for its parts. Adds fellow co-creator and executive producer Shannon Burke, “They couldn’t completely lose the third season.”

“We knew we needed to give them a win, but it ended up being a complicated win,” co-creator and executive producer Josh Pate says.

But that just makes the Season 3 finale - when the Pogues actually find El Dorado - all the more gratifying. While in real life their day-to-days have gotten a little hectic, it’s nothing compared to what the Pogues have been through over the course of three intense seasons.
