EPISODE
SEASON
The OA - Season 1
The series tells a powerful, mind-bending tale about identity, human connection and the borders between life and death. Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling), who resurfaces after having been missing for seven years, calls herself The OA, and can see, although she was blind prior to her disappearance.
26 February 1981, Belleville, New Jersey, USA
2 October 1994, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
21 May 1987
30 January 1971, Clearwater, Florida, USA
April 25, 2017
The OA is a bizarre puzzle that may or may not be worth sticking with. I'm in for now, but only just.
January 03, 2017
I would encourage you to carry through the series. If you allow the story in, the rewards are plenty.
December 19, 2016
Oh, man. If we take The OA exactly 1000 times less seriously than The OA takes itself, we might have found the best show of 2016.
December 19, 2016
Like a cat trying to play the piano, it might not exactly achieve its goal, but the attempt is still rather endearing and undeniably watchable.
December 22, 2016
It is a swing and a miss on a colossal level, but oh, what a swing.
December 19, 2016
I haven't seen anything quite like The OA, whose twists were gripping enough to keep me going even in some moments when I'd otherwise have been rolling my eyes.
December 19, 2016
What's most striking... is the richness of the story. It weaves in such a variety of textures and styles and allusions that it sometimes feels transparently absurd, but it's hard not to be drawn in given the wealth of different objects on offer.
March 24, 2017
A crazy-brilliant fantasy that obeys no rules-drama, launched with minimal fanfare that only enhanced its buzzed-about mysteriousness.
April 25, 2017
Though it occasionally loses its grip on its lofty material, and skids a little in its narrative chicanes, The OA is quite something to behold: a strange and strangely beautiful thing.
January 03, 2017
Part of The OA's appeal is discovering just what the hell kind of show you're watching.
