"The OA" on Netflix, with spoilers

Ok soundtracking a pivotal scene to "Lightning Crashes" is rmde.

Homer really likes "Ordinary World". I love this show.

Hahah I had no idea what the fuck was going on with this as I'd never seen S1 and happened to be in the room when bf binged S2.

I do recall the general mirth at the stupid dance in S1.

That dreadful Live song aside, actually this ended in a rather entertaining WTF manner, I liked the rug being pulled out.

One thing I've noticed this season is that the episodes written by the showrunners are weaker than those written by others. I wonder if there are many other shows like that -- Chibnall Doctorb Who comes immediately to mind.

And that was a wholly unexpected finale!

That was amazing. I really hope this show keeps going.

episodes written by the showrunners are weaker than those written by others. I wonder if there are many other shows like that

I mean, the most obvious/famous example of this is The X-Files, plenty of Carter-written garbage but a handful of consistently great other writers working on it

Also, while this shows draws legitimate comparison to other crazy things (the Leftovers, Stranger Things (they even reference the Upside Down in this season; Twin Peaks....there was one scene with red drapes that seemed fairly explicit, and the 'communing with the tree/octopus' reminded me a lot of the conversations with Bowie Teapot in Season 3), what this series really reminds me of are David Mitchell novels. Particularly the Bone Clocks and Slade House.

What was the deal with that telepathic octopus anyway!? It just casually got introduced and then turned into sushi.

I don't there there is more to it other than it's a giant octopus that can talk to her and she can understand it. Really with about 30% of this show I just take it as it comes and don't try to wonder 'why'.

I'll also say that the movements remain completely thrilling to me. Like, chills and spine tingling when they begin doing them, every time. Even the robots were kind of thrilling. There's something about the synchronous nature of those incredibly complicated gestures that honestly seems to tap something.

I did think the way they got robot arms to replicate the dance was very cleverly done.

I'll also say that the movements remain completely thrilling to me. Like, chills and spine tingling when they begin doing them, every time.

Yeah, the actors commit so fully to the movements, it could've easily come off as terribly derpy otherwise.

I loved the the first four episodes of Season 2. I just watched Episode 5, which was one of the worst hours of television I've ever endured in my entire life. There is no way that two people in the weird house like OA and Karim would suddenly run up opposite sides of the staircase. This was Lost levels of sheer offensive stupidity.

really? that's where this show tipped over to implausibility for you?

It's where the show tipped over to, "I'm getting jerked around by bad writers who need to move plot in volume." I thought I was watching someone play a scratched CD-Rom of Myst.

i just finished bingeing both seasons - i really liked this show! i can see the problems people have with it, but it kept me hooked all the way through. i have a lot of questions though.
why is there so much purple in the first season
how did hap build those giant robots so fast - elodie left him with the 5 tiny ones, then suddenly they're enormous??
who tf is elodie??
who tf is the fbi counsellor?? why did he suddenly understand what was going on??
THE FUCKING OCTOPUS????????????????????
how did steve catch up with the group on treasure island so quickly? he literally turned up minutes after they did. he didn't even have a phone anymore!
i didn't really get the brain seed/blossom thing either. or how hap got scott into the tunnel from treasure island??
really, though, the fucking octopus.

the whole meta tv show/real actors thing was a bit much for me

last scene was very Holy Mountain

and still no clue why young nina has hazel eyes, while adult nina has blue eyes. it's def not just 'we can't find a russian speaking blue eyed blonde girl', since they make such a point of her eye color. nancy looks directly in her hazel eyes and refers to them as 'blue as the prairie skies'.

i just go with the stuff that doesn't make sense (octopus, tree). I think this show is seond only to twin peaks in making its preposterous assertions and set pieces somehow believable...at least, you want to believe them.

Yeah! We just rewatched the first season in preparation for the second and I was also thinking that it reminded me of Twin Peaks while being somehow completely unlike Twin Peaks and not something that I would necessarily recommend to fans of Twin Peaks.

It damn well holds up, though. Nuts to the haters, this thing is gold.

I ended up enjoying Season 2 a lot, with the exception of Episode 5 shenanigans, which felt like the writers moving pieces on a chessboard. I love that she went for such a WTF ending. If there is a Season 3, it’s got to be very warped.

who tf is the fbi counsellor?? why did he suddenly understand what was going on??

I think he's supposed to be similar to Elodie? Someone with at least familiarity with the whole traveling concept.

The twin peaks comparison is apt I think- at times it reminded me of a more literal-minded take on The Return

Just finished and, yeah, think this is still safely in my top three of the decade (along with Enlightened and The Return, so clearly Marling just needs to go ahead and recruit Laura Dern ASAP).

So Homer jumped into Patrick 'actor who plays Steve in the Real World' Gibson's body, right?

not reading the previous posts as I'm only partway through but I love how earnestly batshit this show is.
was thinking of quitting after ep 3 (the kids and the mirror with the too-close-to-the-bone Stranger Things reference) but the next episode with 'old night' was just beautiful.

I couldn't remember what happened in s1 so I read a recap and it sounded like the biggest load of old bollocks ever but I remembered enjoying it so pressed on.

I'm very, very glad that I rewatched s1 before s2. Not a commitment I generally make but it was worth it in this case.

ep5 was pretty nonsense until the teeny robots doing the moves omg!

haha wow "I'm Jason Isaacs"
Inland Empire vibes there although with Inland Empire I predicted that part.

This whole series leaned waaay too much on characters remembering/being told by mysterious strangers/ being told by fckn octopi/ having a feeling that someone is nearby but can't quite tell who or why but let's just go over there/ having a dream that they need to go somewhere but they don't really know why - JUST ENOUGH to get them to the next bit then into the "The Cell starring J-Lo" house. Homer remembering important pieces at exactly the right time (or wrong time I suppose) really pissed me off, nothing really made it happen other than Nina being convincing?

Why did eating a bit of the brain flower make Perd Hapley /Hap Percy hear the first few moments of the next dimension and why did he think that 'omg call an ambulance' sounded like a good place to go and could he even choose to go to someplace else? How did he get all the kids into the pool in that dimension? Also wtf at the start of ep6 or whatever with his dream of licking ye olden days back for the price of a bunch of sticks?

also excited to see who's president in this dimension

:(
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/oa-canceled-two-seasons-at-netflix-1229215

Bull. Shit.

NOOOOOOO

THR's chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg called the mysterious drama a "failed, but not wholly worthless, experiment in TV autoerotism.

For all of its goofiness, I really loved this show, and if they truly had it all plotted out, I'm bummed that we won't get to see where it was going.

we should do the movements and see what happens

ugh terrible news, I loved this show, both seasons of it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ykCdLJYD5/?igshid=i1eh6h5w4d7q

I thought this show was very special even if most people would probably be inclined to ensconce that sentiment in scare quotes.

You know, I would have been OK with this after the first season, but now that they've proven that (to my surprise) they can pull off "just set up some new weird thing which will be weird in a similarly OA way but different" once, I feel like maybe they could pull it off several more times, and I'm sad they won't get to.

This sounds like some major wishful thinking, but who knows?

https://www.insider.com/the-oa-cancellation-fake-netflix-fan-theory-2019-8

Paddy Gibson as Steve as "Paddy Gibson" on the final scene of "Part II."

Aces.

that would be fucking awesome and it makes sense. I'll hold out hope.

Can anyone else imagine some sort of 'we want sauce' Rick and Morty bullshit from OA fans?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOA/comments/cmmhrr/what_if_it_is_our_responsibility_to_save_the_oa/

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!