Something’s Up With The ‘Outer Banks’ Season 5 Rotten Tomatoes Review Score

InnovationGamingSomething’s Up With The ‘Outer Banks’ Season 5 Rotten Tomatoes Review ScoreByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorAug 24, 2026, 11:02am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Outer Banks. Madelyn Cline as Sarah Cameron in episode 509 of Outer BanksJACKSON LEE DAVIS/NETFLIXOuter Banks is one of Netflix’s most successful series. It’s made it to five seasons and been allowed a series finale to end on its own terms. Netflix doesn’t even want to fully let it go, as a new prequel series set 20 years earlier, Kildare, is now officially in development with the Outer Banks creators.So, why do essentially no critics care? We are in a very strange, very unusual situation where, days after the release of Outer Banks season 5, which immediately went to #1 on Netflix, there are not even enough critics who have watched and reviewed it to give it a Rotten Tomatoes score. Just four reviews are in, and while them all being positive would in theory produce a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, it’s not enough to “count” right now.This is unusual. While shows that aren’t the highest-profile on Netflix may not get enough reviews for a score either, a show like Outer Banks, running five seasons into a grand finale, not even getting five reviews across the entire industry reflects an odd state of the TV criticism scene. In contrast, a much, much lower profile series like My Brilliant Career has two dozen reviews in, giving that series a verified 100%, a significant figure on Rotten Tomatoes when the total passes a certain threshold.My Brilliant CareerIan Routledge/Netflix © 2026It’s part of a pattern here with Outer Banks. Only season 1 has even more than 10 reviews after all this time, yet viewership that has allowed it to sail to five seasons. It’s a d...