I kind of skipped over this show when it first came out on Netflix, but with the second season releasing recently I finally gave in and gave it a go, and I've ended up binging all of it in just a few days.
Season one of The OA is a compelling, immersive sci fi drama that has some silly moments and a very slow pace (though it is meticulously constructed).
Season two of The OA is one of the most batshit insane TV shows I've ever seen.
I have never laughed so much before at a show that seems to take itself entirely seriously. I highly recommend watching this incredibly dark but also totally ridiculous show.
The OA
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well...I was *wondering* how the second season was going to be.
I watched all of the first season except the last 2 episodes.
I don't know why I didn't finish it.
was wondering if I should since the new season came out.
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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Yeah, the OA is pretty much Brit Marling. By that, I mean it kind of has all the magical realism/ new weird markings of Another Earth or The Sound of My Voice (still waiting for the rest of that story, btw). I really enjoyed the slow burn tension of trying to figure out if OA is an unreliable narrator, though the second season, while quite fun, pretty much throws that out the window (and throws a few things back in just for the fun of it, I guess?).
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I'm halfway into season two and enjoying it immensely. I'm not thinking it's silly tho. It's got that quality of gradually exposing a larger and larger view of what's happening (ala the Gap series). And with little things and with big things it shows you inexplicable things and then later on it explains them and they make perfect sense (ala anything by Gene Wolfe). I think its far less intentionally senseless than Legion is. These are things I like in a show.
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The movements are silly, especially toward the end of the second season. . But that doesn't make me dislike it. And although silly isn't quite the right word for it, I think that's partially the point, to be strikingly dissimilar from normal human modes of being. I mean, it's not too different from melenkurion abatha duroc minas mil (harad) khabal, if you think about it. That might have been a better way to go about it, but a bunch of chanting probably wouldn't make as good TV.
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Dancing robots?
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-George Steiner
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I like the movements
they remind me of tai chi movements...more intense but like that...moving energy.
I haven't watched all of season 2 yet but i'm liking it still. I find brit marling extremely interesting.
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(especially after watching steve do them on the beach for jesse)
I haven't watched all of season 2 yet but i'm liking it still. I find brit marling extremely interesting.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~