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How this started

One day, one scene,
one boat

I was background on Outer Banks, season three, episode five. On the water, behind the leads, a headcount on the call sheet rather than a name. If you know where to look you can find me in a boat.

That is the whole of my film career, and it is not the reason to buy anything. What it did was make me curious about the rest of it. Kildare is not a real island. It is Mount Pleasant and the Isle of Palms and a stretch of Kiawah, and once you notice that, you start noticing the rest of the Lowcountry standing in for somewhere else.

Anyone can tell you a scene was shot in Charleston. Netflix publishes a list. What nobody tells you is which building on that street is the one on screen, what happens there in the film, how long the drive between two of them actually takes, or whether you can get in when you arrive.

So that is what this is. Routes in the order that makes a day of them, measured rather than guessed, with a photograph of each place and a note on what was filmed there.

Most of it is desk work: reading, cross-checking, and putting the stops in an order that does not double back. Some of it needs somebody to actually go, and none of the 59 places has been stood on yet. A stop that has been says so on its own page, with the date. The rest do not claim it. What you will not find here is where the camera stood or how a scene was blocked. That needs somebody who was on the set, and claiming it without having been there would be the easiest thing on this site to make up.

Where it is up to

Being built, in the open

Charleston first, because it is the one I know. The tours are researched and written; the photographs and the on foot checks are the part still to do.