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The OA

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Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews

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Universal acclaim based on 250 Ratings

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Netflix | Release Date: December 16, 2016

Summary: Blind 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.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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S2:E8. Chapter 8: Overview
Air Date: March 22, 2019
9.6
S2:E7. Chapter 7: Nina Azarova
Air Date: March 22, 2019
9.8
S2:E6. Chapter 6: Mirror Mirror
Air Date: March 22, 2019

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Metascore

63

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16

Mixed:

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3

Critic Reviews

100

San Francisco Chronicle

David Wiegand

Dec 16, 2016

Season 1 Review: "The OA" is one of the most significant shows of the year simply because Marling and Batmanglij barrel through so many boundaries, stretch their combined imaginations so far and challenge the shopworn precepts of what is supposed to make an acceptable television series. Read full review

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We Got This Covered

Joseph Falcone

Dec 19, 2016

Season 1 Review: The less you know about it before going in the better. This is a must-watch series and if a feeling of incompleteness should fill your cavity upon completing it, simply cleanse your palette and start over again. Read full review

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The Telegraph Ed Power

Jan 3, 2020

Season 2 Review: 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. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Lorraine Ali

Dec 22, 2016

Season 1 Review: Whether her story is real or the byproduct of extreme trauma is one of many questions at the heart of this haunting, graceful and often frustratingly cryptic series. Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Dec 16, 2016

Season 1 Review: Marling and Batmanglij prove excellent storytellers, creating elegant, independent arcs crossing multiple genres; each of which are engaging for all the right reasons. It’s only when the mystery ends and a commitment needs to be made--to the exploration of its big ideas, to immersion in its science fiction, to a stance on the power of belief--that this ambitious story falls short. Read full review

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The Daily Beast

Melissa Leon

Dec 16, 2016

Season 1 Review: It unfurls slowly (so, so slowly, especially in its early episodes) into a cerebral sci-fi mystery not quite as compelling as it’s convinced it is. Read full review

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UPROXX Alan Sepinwall

Dec 16, 2016

Season 1 Review: It’s weird, and slow, teasing and teasing its way to a payoff that is meant to seem profound and instead plays as utterly ludicrous and at times borders on offensive. Read full review

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Magsbe

Aug 15, 2019

This show changed me, both as a writer and a person. I will forever return to it, falling into its whimsical, freeing world again and again. Words can't so it justice; you'll just have to watch for yourself.

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James_Matharu

Aug 15, 2019

Perfectly paced and brilliantly executed mystery-thriller. As tightly constructed as a puzzle box and yet full of human emotion and soul. I found myself invested in the main characters very rapidly. Nothing else like it on television.

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lucianobfjunior

Aug 14, 2019

I love the ideia of the show of connecting people with different backgrounds for a greater purpose

4 of 4 users found this helpful40

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TheWildChild

Aug 17, 2019

The OA expands the expanse of the human psyche in ways unimaginable. It has a strange pull that becomes utterly hypnotic and unnerving in Part 2. The show cleverly mixes sci fi, supernatural, and psychological horror together to make a masterpiece that yanks on the heartstrings of theThe OA expands the expanse of the human psyche in ways unimaginable. It has a strange pull that becomes utterly hypnotic and unnerving in Part 2. The show cleverly mixes sci fi, supernatural, and psychological horror together to make a masterpiece that yanks on the heartstrings of the audience. Most network shows take 25 episodes to make the audience care about its characters, and at least 50 to make its viewers invested in relationships. The OA does this in eight episodes. It's not for everyone, but the same could be said of Twin Peaks and Twilight Zone. It is a show sure in its diversity (featuring a trans actor playing a trans character and the difficulties of blindness). It is utterly brilliant and breathtaking in both cinematography, acting, writing, and directing. Brit Marling is gifted in multiple ways, including playing the titular OA. Paired with Zal Batmanglij for writing, directing and producing, the two are an unstoppable powerhouse of talent. At its core, despite it's psychedelic and science fi nature, the OA's heart burns bright with real relationships, both on and off the screen.… Expand

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Littlekinder

Sep 4, 2019

For minds that like puzzles, mysteries and a big heart. Amazingly diverse and complex characters. Impossible not to binge!

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10

Sareliande

Aug 14, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's thought provoking and compelling, it makes you feel as if you are experiencing what the characters are going through. Not a lot of TV shows can be works of art, but The OA definitely does.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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smfusr

Aug 9, 2019

This show gives Netflix's "Another Life" a run for the money in the Worst Show Ever category. Seriously - if these are the productions being funded by Netflix today, sell your shares and run for the hills. Better yet, go short. As usual with turds, the series starts out with promise, and youThis show gives Netflix's "Another Life" a run for the money in the Worst Show Ever category. Seriously - if these are the productions being funded by Netflix today, sell your shares and run for the hills. Better yet, go short. As usual with turds, the series starts out with promise, and you can't help but feel there is something substantial in the plot. An episode or two in and sheer nonsensical lunacy of the writing becomes apparent. This series starts with intrigue but then shortly thereafter, the brakes come off and it begins to go downhill... slowly at first and then whoosh! The earth drops out and we're off the cliff and hurtling into the abyss. Stereotypical, boring, slow and getting more and more moronic by the episode. AVOID!!!… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

63

Series Overview
Season 2

67
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.8
  S2:E8. Chapter 8: Overview
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.6
  S2:E7. Chapter 7: Nina Azarova
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.8
  S2:E6. Chapter 6: Mirror Mirror
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.8
  S2:E5. Chapter 5: The Medium & the Engineer
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.8
  S2:E4. Chapter 4: SYZYGY
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.8
  S2:E3. Chapter 3: Magic Mirror
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.9
  S2:E2. Chapter 2: Treasure Island
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
- 9.9
  S2:E1. Chapter 1: Angel of Death
  Air Date: March 22, 2019
Season 1

61
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: December 16, 2016