Two slightly different shows about a girl with supernatural powers came out in 2016.
One of them was Stranger Things . The other was a mind-bending …
Two slightly different shows about a girl with supernatural powers came out in 2016. One of them was Stranger Things. The other was a mind-bending mystery set in a small town with a scientist villain who conducted inhumane experiments. One of these shows is no longer running. And yet The OA is still the second-best TV show sunk into the mines of Netflix. The best show is German sci-fi thriller Dark, but The OA isn’t far behind. The OA is difficult to describe, because it sews a handful of different genres into its own ethereal plane. The OA is surreal at times. Yet instead of floating images gently knocking against each other, the sci-fi here is delivered with the grounded assuredness of a Christopher Nolan movie. It moves with the same relentless force. Our anchor and main heroine is Prairie Johnson. In the very first scene, Prairie, a young blonde woman, jumps off a bridge. When she wakes up, she’s back home. She’d been missing for seven years. No one knows what happened to her. Her return is a miracle. Even more shocking: Once blind, she can see again. Prairie has scars on her back and experiences traumatic episodes, but won’t burden her adopted parents with her story. Instead, she takes to the internet, finding like-minded friends via the medium of YouTube.
