Yeah, they made it look like school shootings are fairly routine.
Ahhh…okay, now I get it and I agree.
I think season 2 Funding will be a breeze ( Guns are bad umkay , White Males are the bad actors , Minority struggles abound , not a hint of Christianity that resonates …
I really enjoyed the show. It was just really compelling from the first opening credits, 50 mins into the 1st episode. Me and my girlfriend ended up binging most of it, which is a feat because my girlfriend is the type who is exhausted by 10pm, but kept saying let’s watch another episode until 1am… Anyway she also pointed something out to me that I completely missed in the last 15 mins of the show
when OA is getting loaded into the ambulance, the bully hears a sound and looks up. I thought it was like some airplane or something, but it turns out it the sound from ep 2 that Hap tells Prarie about - the sounds that a soul makes when it leaves a body. No wonder he started chasing the ambulance and tells take me with you
And yes, the movements are silly, but I think they are supposed to look like that. Though I thought it was fantastic when they actually turned out to work down in the basement. And I think that Prarie’s frantic attempt to search for Homer on the Internet when she originally got home indicated that at least some of her story is real (I prefer to think the vast majority of her story is real).
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I finished this series over the weekend…all in all, the plot may leave a bit to be desired especially at the end, but there were parts of it I enjoyed so much on their own merits that I can’t complain too much. It kept me watching.
This deserves to be every bit as popular as “Stranger Things” – the only thing it’s missing is the nostalgia factor. Legitimately creepy stuff trumps 80s movie-style creepy for me personally.
All the Hap-related stuff was right up my alley. Very well done.
Something else I thought of that makes it even weirder to include the morgue scene if they wanted it to be ambiguous as to whether Prairie was making it all up: that part could definitely be verified. In fact, they’d already know about it. Think about what huge news it would be if a dead medical researcher were found, along with however many cages of human experiment victims (and it sounds like he was less humane than Hap). Then you figure out what other doctor could have been that guy’s mentee, and bingo: you’ve found Hap.
Could mean something, could just be for ease of production, why build another set, particularly if it would just confuse the viewers not looking as deeply as you are at the details (not that there’s anything wrong with that)?
Just finished the series. About half way or 3/4 into it I said, “this feels like LOST because there way more questions and loose ends than can possibly be wrapped up by the end.” And I was right about that. The movements were very corny, but I could get beyond that. Overall, I enjoyed it. I just wish it had been more conclusive.
I just quit watching 5 episodes in. Didn’t really draw me in and I’m not a believer in the supposed spiritual nature of NDEs. I might pick it back up, but really why bother? There so much else to watch coming out all the time.
Quit four episodes in, and having read this thread, I’m glad I did. A lot of the show worked for me: the pacing, the dread, the lighting. But the after-death scenes were absolutely terrible cheese, and it felt like that was going to be pivotal to the show. I don’t think I could’ve taken interpretive dance.
You should go back and watch the end of ep 5 just for a giggle. Well, a cringe-giggle for sure, but still.
I really enjoyed the show, even though the dance had me cringing. I loved Phyllis Smith.
The show was totally worth watching right up until the end. Then I was so disappointed I wished I’d never even started watching.
Finally ground through it all.
A mildly interesting conceit good for about two hours of narrative, stretched into over eight hours of pretentious, pompous poopery.
With the preposterous notion that these people could be kept captive for seven years (at all) - and basically never change appearance, and their clothes only get mildly ratty. It’s way too much to believe. A year, maybe two… okay. Seven? (It’s like believing a butthurt Batman disappeared for eight years. Oh… wait…)
Film school foolishness with too big a budget and too small a producer’s hand.
QFT
Renewed for season 2: ‘The OA’ Renewed For Season 2 On Netflix – Deadline
I’ll watch. I enjoyed season 1 despite some storytelling problems, and I’m interested to see where it goes from here.
We’re two episodes in and we’re done. This is genuinely terrible bullshit.
I got a sinking feeling just from the fact that half the credits are Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who wrote, directed, star in, and I think catered the show; that screams “ego project.” When the five misfits show up in the house to hear a boring story, I was skeptical, and when the little girl goes to the afterlife and is met by a babushka wearing our living room rug in a planetarium I was bemused, and when Prairie/Nina/The OA was kidnapped by a guy who might as well have introduced himself by saying “Hello, I’m Kidnappy McKidnapperson” I was scornful, and when Prairie/Nina/The OA runs from the room at the end of Episode 2 saying “Hhhhhhomer!” with all the hilarious misplaced gravitas of Darth Vader shouting “Noooooooooo” we were laughing in disgust. I’ll wait for Stranger Things Season 2 to watch someone try to do Stranger Things again.
Barbarian hit the one right on the head; this is pretentious film-school-meets-Stranger-Things horseshit that only got greenlit because Netflix was willing to give money to ANYONE who promised more Stranger Things success.
I have to stress that the first two episodes are pretty bad, but they’re not THAT bad. They aren’t as bad as, say, “Wayward Pines,” or having your balls shot through with a nail gun. But I can tell it’s on a downward slope to Shittytown. It’s like being on an airplane and you look out the window and see the engine explode and take the wing with it. At that particular moment, you aren’t dead yet, in fact you’re perfectly fine and probably will be for a little while longer, but you know where you’re going to end up and it’s not Gate B27 at Newark-Liberty. This show is headed straight for a long debris-strewn scorch mark in a wheatfield.
I know there’s interpretive dance coming at some point, and that seals the deal. You know where interpretive dance is appropriate? Dance shows or music videos, and that’s it.
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In retrospect, my perspective is that the story illustrates the susceptibility of flawed, troubled, lonely, isolated personalities to be enamored with and unquestioningly accept the presence of a powerful personality and vision…a cautionary tale on the development of cults and woo-acceptance. I don’t think that was necessarily the writer’s intent though.
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The thing is, Marling and Batmanglij have already told that story; it was a movie called “Sound of My Voice,” in which Brit Marling, of course, plays a young woman who has drawn in a bunch of impressionable people with an elaborate story of supernatural events, stories so powerful they convince people of her legitimacy as a visionary. Sound familiar? I won’t tell you if she’s legit or not, in case you want to watch it.
I am intrigued. I think it worked as an ambiguous ending, so I’m curious as to what story they are going to tell in Season 2.
LOL!
I must admit, I kind of liked Wayward Pines (the first season) even though it was absurd in so many ways.
But if you’re otherwise out, I would strongly recommend watching another nine minutes of the show, starting at right about the seven minute mark of Episode 6, “The Forking Paths”. I’m tempted to say it’s a really chilling and well made short film on its own (although it actually throws a wrench in the works in terms of being able to be reconciled with other aspects of the series), but that’s not quite right–because it wouldn’t really make sense if you didn’t have any other experience with the story. I think having seen the first couple episodes is enough to be able to appreciate it, though.
Good decision. I watched the whole thing, I enjoy yelling at the screen and rolling my eyes.
Did they ever explain her new name, OA? I wouldn’t care otherwise but my Finnish subtitles gave her name as EE instead so I kept on waiting for them to reveal what sort of acronym it is, going through various possibilities that’d be “OA” in English but “EE” in Finnish in my mind. If they ever explained it I must’ve missed it, though.