Should you watch The OA?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
The OA
Series · 2016
Seven years after vanishing from her home, a young woman returns with mysterious new abilities and recruits five strangers for a secret mission.
The sides of The OA
- A blind woman who returns after seven years, able to see
- Five strangers meeting in an unfinished house
- A set of movements said to open a door
The OA is good for you if…
- you like a story that refuses to say what kind of story it is.
- you can live with an ending that stops instead of answering.
- you want the feeling that something bigger sits behind a disappearance.
The OA is bad for you if…
- you need momentum, and whole episodes here are one person telling a story.
- you want travel between dimensions to hold up when you think about it.
- you roll your eyes the first time five people do the movements in a basement.
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