Netflix 'Outer Banks' stars on 'high octane' Season 3 and JJ, Kiara romance

There's no rest for the Pogues in Season 3 of the Netflix hit Outer Banks, starring Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Rudy Pankow and Jonathan Daviss, a season that even had its cast questioning how they were going to pull off all the action and drama.

“Getting the scripts for the season, just the action sequences I was like, ‘how are we going to do this? How are we pulling that off?” Drew Starkey who play Rafe, Sarah's (Cline) brother, told Yahoo Canada. “But we did it, it's really insane.”

“It's so high octane. It's like adrenaline rush the whole time. You feel it when you're reading the scripts. ... We get a new episode, we're all calling each other being like, ‘did you get to finish it? Did you read?' So our experience reading is hopefully the same for people watching it.”

“I think it's just kind of one of those things where you dive headfirst and you don't think, you just do,” Cline said about taking on the action of Season 3. “I feel like that's kind of the Outer Banks spirit."

"It's just like, don't think. If you're thinking about it you're already seven seconds too late.”

What happens in Outer Banks Season 3?

Season 2 of Outer Banks left us with a chaotic boat heist after Sarah's father Ward (Charles Esten) kidnapped her, while everyone thought he was dead. The Pogues were hiding in a shipping container on the boat but were able to escape (with Sarah) to a remote island they called "Poguelandia." But Ward isn't the only seemingly dead person who returned to the story. At the end of Season 2, we also discover that John B's (Stokes) long-lost father is actually alive and in Barbados.

Season 3 picks up right where we left off, on Poguelandia, along with now honorary Pogue Cleo (Carlacia Grant), after she travelled with them from the boat at the end of Season 2.

“It was really exciting to see Cleo come through the ranks,” Carlacia Grant said. “I was really excited to see this Caribbean bad gal and her just coming to the States, and learning how to deal with all these variables.”

“Can't walk around with a knife on your chest. There are rules out here. … Continuing the friendships with all these lovely Pogues that she's met, it's really exciting to see how everything is going to play out with that.”

The Pogues are actually kind of thriving on this island, relaxing and fishing for food, but things change when they're able to get the attention of a seaplane flying by. While initially they believe they're getting saved, things take a turn when the Pogues realize the pilot didn't just randomly stop to save them, there was another motivation. It's from that point on that the Pogues are thrust back into this search for the treasure, but the situation becomes more critical.

"The stakes are higher for sure,” Austin North who plays Sarah's ex-boyfriend Topper said. “The action, adventure, the romance, everything about it, but also I think there's moments of normality.”

“I love that. Sarah comes and hangs out with the Kooks again and they have their bonfire and it’s kind of nostalgic to Season 1, which I think the show always needs because that way people can take a little breather while they're watching it and calm down because it is intense. I'm enjoying it myself, to be honest. It's a good show.”

Aside from the Pogues, Ward is on the mend in his mansion, after his injuries from the boat heist, and his son Rafe has taken the reins in Ward's sinister plans, which comes with its own set of challenges.

“This is a different relationship than we saw in Season 1, Rafe has kind of cast himself into an area of independence and freedom from his family now,” Starkey said.

“Working with Chip, Charles Esten, ... we talked about it recently, … it'd be nice to have just a moment where we have a scene where we just sit down and have breakfast and everything's OK. Instead, we're just in each other's faces just yelling at each other. But it's been incredible exploring it with him and excited to see where it goes for sure.”