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muneca_bravaI finished The OA yesterday and I need to yell about it! If you have also seen it, please come yell with me!
Spoilers under the cut, but first non-spoilery for people who haven't seen it:
If you've been wondering if you should watch this show (it's on Netflix!), I recommend giving it a try! It's deeply weird and complex and intriguing in a way not many shows are. I think it's so hard to make a tv show that is still original and manages to engage and surprise the audience without also frustrating them and this really manages it imo.
It has a very engaging mystery at the center of both the first and second season to keep you engaged, but also manages to weave this weird, mind-bending world around it that is surreal without becoming otherworldly. It has (in S2) a few deep WTF moments and I do think there are probably people who liked S1 but lost the thread in S2 because it becomes so deeply strange and metaphysical, but I loved it.
So if you're interested; it has an engaging plot and very interesting characters and relationships, as well as themes of faith, connection, friendship, the multiverse etc.
Also, if you want to know more, ask and I will rave to you (non-spoilery ofc)!
I won't talk about plot beyond the basic premise because I went in not knowing much and it works best, I think, if you are surprised by it.
Now onto spoilers!
Spoilers under the cut, but first non-spoilery for people who haven't seen it:
If you've been wondering if you should watch this show (it's on Netflix!), I recommend giving it a try! It's deeply weird and complex and intriguing in a way not many shows are. I think it's so hard to make a tv show that is still original and manages to engage and surprise the audience without also frustrating them and this really manages it imo.
It has a very engaging mystery at the center of both the first and second season to keep you engaged, but also manages to weave this weird, mind-bending world around it that is surreal without becoming otherworldly. It has (in S2) a few deep WTF moments and I do think there are probably people who liked S1 but lost the thread in S2 because it becomes so deeply strange and metaphysical, but I loved it.
So if you're interested; it has an engaging plot and very interesting characters and relationships, as well as themes of faith, connection, friendship, the multiverse etc.
Also, if you want to know more, ask and I will rave to you (non-spoilery ofc)!
I won't talk about plot beyond the basic premise because I went in not knowing much and it works best, I think, if you are surprised by it.
Now onto spoilers!
- The end is...bonkers. Insane. At first (after I got over my deep shock) I didn't think I liked it because it felt meta in a way that was too gimmicky and didn't fit with this show, but after thinking about it for a while, I think it works? It didn't come out of nowhere, there were clues throughout the season. And the theme of storytelling has always been there. Also, because in this dimension 'Jason Isaacs' is married to 'Brit' it seems like it isn't entirely our actual world? Which makes me feel slightly better.
- Psychic Octopus is really...a thing that happened!
- I have never been entirely invested in Homer/OA as a relationship tbh - it works as a motivation for OA, who hasn't known a lot of people who cared about her, but it's such a childish relationship (intentionally so!) and I feel like we never really got that there was any more to it than being forced together through circumstance. I like choice as a big factor in a relationship, and the choice is very removed, here. On the other hand, they went through something together that nobody else can ever understand.
That said, the scene where Homer finally remembers, in the glass elevator, really got me. The glass between them, again, Hap on the staircase, it worked so well!
- What I really appreciate about the weirdness of this show, is that we discover the weirdness along with the characters. It really works that way - I never feel like everyone knows a bunch of things that they aren't sharing with the audience. The universe just works in mysterious ways, and we all try to figure it out together
- I'm really happy we didn't just leave the kids from S1 behind! It was nice to occasionally take a break from the insanity with the house and the game etc and go hang out on their dysfunctional roadtrip.
- Who the hell is Riz Ahmed? ?? ??
- I felt really overwhelmed by everything when the season ended, but now that I've been letting it sink in, I'm into it. There really aren't that many unanswered questions other than the general 'how does the multiverse and travelling between dimensions work' which is the whole point of the show.
- It seems like we probably won't see 'our' versions of Renata, Scott and Rachel again? That sucks because I really wanted more of them.
- I also hope Karim comes back in some form because he was great!
- Overall, I probably liked S1 more because it was much more straightforward. S2 got very messy and had about 5 equally important storylines running through each other - that combined with how surreal it got, especially in the house, made it much more dense and exhausting.
I also deeply loved the finale of S1 - the moment they started doing the movements in the school was so emotional and beautiful in a simple way that I think S2 lost a little by being so dense and big.
That said, I can't wait for more of this because it's so rare for a show to be this engaging to me without having a clue where it might go. I also love most of the characters (BBA! Steve! Karim!) and I want to spend much more time in this universe