I do not hate the ending by any means, but do think they misfired.
We should have seen:
Prairie lead her new friends through a portal to another dimension in order to find her friends. I think that would have been an earned cliffhanger for us.
I hope there is a second season.
Good build up of the story but the ending is a major suck. It could have been better than that. That was just stupid.
Netflix?
Anywho… wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t even remotely in the same league as Stranger Things, not that I think it was intended to be. I’m kinda over cop out endings, though. I would like another season to explain the real deal, assuming they’d actually do that and not just jerk us around again.
Depends on the platform and version of the player being used. Some don’t autoplay at all (good, IMO).
I want a second season if there really is something to the five movements, but if they’re going to keep us forever guessing what’s real and what’s not, then they might as well leave it as is.
I really think something’s up with the FBI guy and the books.
When “French” turned into “Homer” in the mirror, then FBI showed up, I was worried FBI was going to kill him and turn out to be “HAP” from the “real” world.
Aaaand, I just got sucker punched. I should have switched off at the first signs of fucking interpretive dance. Jesus H. Christ that was stupid. And they played that straight, right to the end in the cafeteria, intending for us to take it seriously. What a waste of time. What a bunch of incoherent nonsense.
We need to form a support group. OAA.
Look, I don’t have a problem, alright? I can stop binge watching whenever I want to.
Do you hide netflix capable devices around your house?
Man, I do not get the “Stranger Things” love. I suffered through it, thought the ending was horrible, and generally found it dull and the acting, especially from Winona, really bad.
The OA, I loooooved. Yeah, the ending was slightly contrived, but overall in a much better league than Stranger Things. More interesting storyline, much better acting, much more intriguing concept.
To each their own, I guess.
Finally. I felt so alone. 
I think the Stranger Things love is 99.9% driven by nostalgia.
As a child of the 70s and 80s, I should loooooove Stranger Things. I was pretty much of an age with the kids in the show. Maybe I’m nostalgia-challenged.
I actually liked Stranger Things quite a bit. I’m not usually a big nostalgia guy, and in general think we have more and better television and music now than ever before. But that show really worked for me. I thought it was really well made, and the atmosphere alone really sold it. Heck, even the title sequence was really creepy.
I agree that the plot was very goofy. But to misquote from the political sphere, it was goofy within normal parameters for a sci-fi / fantasy TV show. OA was just embarrassingly dumb, and the interpretive dance scenes (especially in the cafeteria) were cringe worthy.
It worked for me, no cringes here at all.
I liked that part as well. No issues for me.
I thought the school shooter came out of nowhere, storywise and literally, and the dance was weird. But I rewatched it and the whole thing grew on me. Prairie did see the cafeteria in her dreams, and teaching the group the 5 movements did prevent a tragedy, and it looked like she got herself another NDE.
+15 for cringe worthy dances, the instant they started them. BUT, I gave it the benefit of the doubt, hoping it would turn out there would be cool pan-dimensional portals. Nope. Just extra super stupid cringe worthy dance. I felt embarrassed for the characters. I felt embarrassed for the actors. I feel embarrassed for my friends who are going to sit through it, despite my warnings.
There ain’t nothin wrong with that!
The young actress playing Eleven was really good, too. She could say volumes without uttering a word.
I had almost no nostalgia for the time period it was set in. Loved the show, anyway. I guess I’m the .1%?