The OA (Season 1)- Web TV Series Review by Shoby

The OA (Season 1)- Web TV Series Review by Shoby

The OA, which was released by Netflix last year on December 16, 2016 is a mystery series with the touch of super natural & science fiction elements in it. It was created and executive produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. The first season of The OA comprises of 8 episodes, all of varied lengths in terms of time duration and all of these episodes were directed by Zal Batmanglij.

In The OA, Brit Marling herself played the role of a mysterious women (Prairie Johnson) who was shown coming back home after so many years. It was told by her parents that she was disappeared several years back and the interesting part is that when she was disappeared she was a blind child but now she has returned with her eye sight restored completely.

On her return, Prairie gathers a group of four other persons to make a group of five and she narrates them her story, which reveals that she was an adopted kid and she actually belonged to Russia. She further tells the team that she was kidnapped and abducted by Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy (played by Jason Isaacs) with five other people and he used them as objects for his experiments related to NDE (near death experience). She asks the team to join her in a mission to save others.

Story line of Tha OA looks very promising on paper but unfortunately the loosely written messy screenplay spoils the show. The pilot episode of the show "Homecoming" starts with the very right tone and it gives you a teaser of something magnum coming your way. But with the progress of the show, it looses the charm. A couple of episodes in the season are no doubt written & executed marvellously and a few portions within the show are spin chilling but overall impact of the show is not that big.

Brit Marling and Jason Isaacs have done a commendable job in acting department and supporting cast of the first season managed well to play their parts in a good manner.Dialogues are also written nicely. I thoroughly enjoyed the cinematography and the background score in the whole series.

The show could have been a much better product, provided if mysteries involved in it have been revealed in some more logical way. Certain phenomenon have remained unexplained and perhaps this is the major flaw of the show. The show ended rather abruptly without clarifying what actually has happened in the whole series. The first season of The OA was mostly about the story of Prairie, how she became The OA, in fact all the 8 episodes carried on with the story, showing the background history of The OA.

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