SummaryBlind Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling) went missing seven years ago, only to return her sight restored in this sci-fi drama from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.
Created By:Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
❮ The OA
Season 2
Season Premiere:
Mar 22, 2019
Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
User score
Universal Acclaim
9.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
75% Positive
6 Reviews
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25% Mixed
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Jan 3, 2020
80
It’s clear The OA is doubling down on its commitment to strangeness for strangeness's sake. All of which makes it a uniquely acquired taste – but also a show that, if you can attune yourself to its batty frequencies, delivers an experience like nothing else on screen.
Mar 19, 2019
80
It’s earnest, self-serious, steeped in spiritual mythology and sci-fi-ish notions about time-jumping and dimension hopping, and heavily focused on the sort of puzzle-solving mystery that lights up Reddit message boards. While watching, I was entranced at times. At others, I thought I was watching the most ridiculous show on TV. Occasionally, I felt both of these feelings simultaneously.
User score
Universal Acclaim
92% Positive
232 Ratings
232 Ratings
3% Mixed
8 Ratings
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5% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
May 23, 2021
10
I wish I lived inside the brains of Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling. It is as if both of them operated on a different (and better) frequency.
Mar 12, 2020
10
Although the first season was pretty weak, second season easily makes this show one of the best tv series ever, just give it a chance!
Mar 15, 2019
80
The OA has always been a show that asks you to surrender, to leave the door open, and Season 2 makes even bigger, bolder asks of its audience. But this time it feels worth it. And it turns out, if you were one of the viewers who believed, who left that door open for The OA all these years, you might have welcomed some bonafide, baffling magic into your home.
Apr 3, 2019
70
The first seven and a half hours of Season 2 are really striking, both grief drama and haunted-house mystery. But when the story finally gets where it’s been going the whole time, you realize that not much of what just happened really mattered; all anyone on The OA needs to do to change the scenery is jump dimensions. Which gives the whole show a dismaying weightlessness.
Mar 15, 2019
67
While cracking the puzzles can be fun, some clues drop out of nowhere It’s also not a thoroughly profound drama; there’s too much stagnant time in Season 2, and too many leaps of logic. Ultimately, those leaps are what make it stand out, what keep you intrigued, and ultimately what makes The OA a drama to root for.
Mar 21, 2019
50
Remains willfully confounding at every turn and is still capable of conceptual fits so head-scratchingly audacious that I'm able to admire and laugh at them at the same time.
Dec 3, 2019
40
Events, characters and half-formed ideas are thrown at the screen then abandoned in favour of fresh mysteries, the show infinitely rolling out a carpet of kookiness.
Mar 25, 2019
6
I found myself captivated for most of the season, it's weirdness drew me in. I felt sometimes the show slowed down a little too much, and by the end of the season things just started to not make sense which I don't totally hold against it because again, I like the uniqueness of it. I would have liked to see a little more cohesion in the show, and not just the feeling of being led on forever like you are watching Lost.
Mar 23, 2019
6
Season 2 is lacking much of what made season 1 amazing, and sadly I don't think it stacks up. Multiple story lines with absolutely no bearing on the overall arc, and plot twists which feel like shark jumping the shark jumping the shark jumping the shark. I really wanted to like it, and philosophically, it feels like maybe we've all caught up to Brit and Zal's IQ level, to the point that what they have to say doesn't feel as fresh anymore. Whether it be 'Maniac,' 'Russian Doll,' or even your own psychedelic experience, a lot of what is presented as weird is pretty mundane by now. It's still an enjoyable watch, but nothing noteworthy.
Mar 27, 2019
2
I watched the first season as it posed an interesting plot and took its time getting to the end, but that end was so silly, it destroyed the show's credibility for me. This starts where that left off? It comes off more as a bad YA novel than anything else. "Looking for gamers?" Jesus this is ham-handed. It's just bad. I give credit to the first one for creating a mystery, even if the resolution was hokey. This show is just a bad version of The Leftovers.
May 16, 2020
1
1st season is just brilliant. 2nd one is nothing but a pretentious crap. 100% reasonable cancelling, IMO.
