Kevin's Watch

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.

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.

Geez Im pretty sure Ive seen the OA but cant recall what its about

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?).

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.

You didn't find the "movements" a bit silly? Especially in the big dramatic scene at the end of season 1? Maybe it's intentionally absurd, but I just struggled to take it seriously.

No, just something that will make more sense at some point.

Of course, sometimes shows like this never explain some things. Which sucks. But it's too early to give up on it.

The movements are silly, especially toward the end of the second season.

Spoiler

Dancing robots?

. 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.

I like the movements

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(especially after watching steve do them on the beach for jesse)

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.