I am usually not one for drama or sci-fi TV shows. I personally love a comedy TV show, but Netflix’s “The OA” is a show that surprises a lot of people. The storyline in both seasons is just crazily filled with twists and turns. I want to talk about this show in my article this week because I feel like it is underrated, and I want this story to be recognized.
For a brief and non-spoiler-filled summary, I will sloppily outline the plot for you. A woman, Brit Marling, reappears after a seven-year disappearance. But when she disappeared, she was blind, and now, she can see. She is so traumatized and unable to share where she has been.
Eventually, she finds a friend in Steve, a boy in her neighborhood. She asks him to gather four other people, and they will meet in the abandoned house at night. All five kids show up for the telling of Prairie Johnson’s story. She goes into detail for her storytime and shares with the teenagers her tale of living underground in a cell for seven years. There is so much more to the plot, but I don’t want to ruin anything.
The show does take a few episodes to ramp up, but once you are pulled in, you stay there until the very end. There are two parts, but the episodes are long, so this will entertain you for a few days (or weeks if you are not an avid binge-watcher). The second part gets crazy in another dimension and really shakes things up. But it is a little hard to follow if you aren’t paying attention. The underlying messages about spirituality are cool to witness. The ideas that are presented about the afterlife are mind-opening. I personally am not religious and believe in more of a universe-type structure.
Seeing my beliefs and spirituality in this show was really cool. There are many movies where viewers get a visual of what heaven or hell would look like. Getting a visual for how the universe communicates with empaths and psychic individuals was new for me. We see where you go when you die, or “half-die.” This was something that I haven’t seen in many shows or movies. The show gives viewers a picture of things that happen in the universe that we cannot simply explain. There are things like interdimensional travel in the show, and this is exciting because of how they made it look so easy. Yet, the technique is dependent amongst the characters, and everything just ties together.
The show keeps you wanting more but also keeps you wanting a stable ending. But “The OA” is sadly not going to deliver you with a simple ending. This is not what you get. The ending travels to a third dimension in which we see the set of the show. This leaves the viewers guessing and left my roommates and me talking—well, screaming. The ending doesn’t sum everything up as you want but instead opens up a world of possibilities. I will let you watch it and decide if the ending is in our dimension or if you have another explanation for Brit Marling’s masterpiece.