The OA [Netflix]

NexusK · 13 Dec 2016 at 10:10

New Netflix show coming out on Friday http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635282/?ref_=nv_sr_2

A bit strange for them to announce a show just a few days before releasing it so could mean it's not good. Netflix though so worth a try.

From Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the visionary filmmakers behind Sound of My Voice and The East, comes a powerful, mind-bending tale about identity, human connection and the borders between life and death. The Netflix original series The OA is an odyssey in eight chapters produced in partnership with Plan B Entertainment, Netflix and Anonymous Content. The groundbreaking series offers audiences a singular experience that upends notions about what long-format stories can be.

planty · 13 Dec 2016 at 10:49

Saw the trailer for the last night, think it looks really interesting. Could be another stranger things.

NexusK · 16 Dec 2016 at 21:09

Started off ok but it's starting to get a bit weird now with

the silly dance moves

v0n · 17 Dec 2016 at 12:55

You know the show is going to be weird when it takes 57 minutes to get to the opening title credits.

BananaDunka · 17 Dec 2016 at 13:22

Will continue to watch as it seems pretty interesting.

Just finished episode 1 I hink, considering it started almost at the end... Heh.

v0n · 17 Dec 2016 at 23:37

Good stuff. Gets weird, gets cheesy, but good story, well told, perfect ending, left me wanting more, overall I liked it.

rids57 · 18 Dec 2016 at 05:03

Watched the first one and I foresee a binge in my immediate future

SixTwoSix · 18 Dec 2016 at 06:37

So is this even a patch on Stranger Things?

NexusK · 18 Dec 2016 at 11:01

Finished it last night, the first half was good but it started losing me in the second with all the weird kung-fu dance stuff. I thought the ending was awful, it ended up so ridiculous i wouldn't have been surprised if half the room spontaneously started singing Right Said Fred's I'm too Sexy or something equally ridiculous.

Richdog · 18 Dec 2016 at 19:55

Just binged 'The OA' this weeked and though it certainly took a while to get there, the ending was very head-scratchingly surprising, I didn't really expect that at all. Kind of a real wtf moment. It was well acted and very surreal, parts of the story didn't make much sense at all, but if you blank your mind and go with the flow without asking too many questions then it's worth a watch. I didn't not enjoy it, if that makes sense.

Now for Van Helsing...

BananaDunka · 18 Dec 2016 at 20:01

Van Helsing has 5.6 on imdb, and looks quite poorly acted and scripted with rubbish fight scenes. Will avoid.

Raymond Lin · 18 Dec 2016 at 20:01

planty said:
Saw the trailer for the last night, think it looks really interesting. Could be another stranger things.

I thought WTF when the intro credits rolled and realise yeah....that's not come up yet.

SexyGreyFox · 18 Dec 2016 at 22:29

I've binged up to 7 and I'm enjoying it

rids57 · 19 Dec 2016 at 04:14

Only made it through the first four so far and have thoroughly enjoyed it - looking forward to the back four tonight.

BananaDunka · 19 Dec 2016 at 04:21

Just finished it. Not sure I still fully get what the series was about, but the ending was not what I was expecting.

ChroniC · 19 Dec 2016 at 21:46

I've got just past start of 6 or 7 (can't remember) It's started to get weird. The movement stuff etc.
I foresee that it's all rubbish and she's a bit mental.

//finshed... Anyone care to explain that ending?

rids57 · 20 Dec 2016 at 17:42

Loved it, the tai-chi stuff was a bit mental but is it any crazier than light sabres?

Superb acting (specially Brit Marling) and story telling, I literally couldn't wait to watch the next episode.

The ending really threw me, I just didn't see it coming at all....

I personally think that the books and the story she told her parents were intended to muddy the water so to speak. The end was purposely ambiguous, the books and the story she told her parents on one side and the story she told the group on the other. The documented evidence the group found: news of the crash, Homer's NDE on youtube, video of her at the station, are all part of her story but don't necessarily mean that the rest was true. Even the recovery of her sight was due to a trauma, just as she lost it in the first place. So the viewer is left guessing almost to the end but then right at the last, as she dies, we actually hear the "whoosh" sound and then we see her somewhere else and this is the final proof that her story was true.

v0n · 20 Dec 2016 at 18:55

The ending is perfect. If you invested your trust in believing her story, you feel somewhat like The Five, the ups and downs and then suddenly they are in the right place in the right time, this is what they were trained for. If you grew sceptical of the story and started suspecting schizophrenia, then you still understand how their moves saved the day, on very realistic, both feet on the ground level and there will always be those few elements to scratch your head about - how did she regain her sight? How did she know to run to them in the end? See? Perfection in ambiguity.

They are courting Netflix for a second season. I don't think it is necessary.

rids57 · 20 Dec 2016 at 19:28

While I would love to see more of OA, I think her story has been told and brilliantly so.

mid_gen · 21 Dec 2016 at 14:47

Watched the first episode.

It's treading a *very* fine line between interestingly leftfield and pretentious tosh.

Will see how it develops!