Netflix Cancels "The OA"

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"The OA" Cancelled by Netflix after Two Seasons
by Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski
August 5, 2019


There will be no third season for "The OA". Netflix has opted not to renew the mystery drama series that reunited Sundance veterans Brit Marling and director Zal Batmanglij.

“We are incredibly proud of the 16 mesmerizing chapters of The OA, and are grateful to Brit and Zal for sharing their audacious vision and for realizing it through their incredible artistry,” said Cindy Holland, VP of Original Content, Netflix. “We look forward to working with them again in the future, in this and perhaps many other dimensions.”

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It's a shame The OA was canceled after delivering one of the wildest twists in TV history

"The OA was weird and sincere, bonkers and beautiful, spiritual and at times, religious, but never, ever preachy," Anna Menta says of the mystery drama that Netflix canceled Monday after two seasons. "It took big swings and never apologized for that. It was art. Like most great art, The OA made you work for it. Season 2 was, in some ways, a meandering disaster. More than once, I felt the impatient urge to skip through scenes. Who has the time for delayed gratification in the year 2019, when my favorite form of entertainment is still six-second Vines? But if you pushed through to the end—if you watched that finale—it was absolutely worth the wait. Did it tie together all the loose ends? Did it always make perfect sense? Was the giant, all-knowing octopus ever explained? No, no, and no, but it somehow still felt like a divine revelation, the exact same kind experienced by Detective Karim Washington as he stared through that damned rose window in the finale. More than that, Season 2 completely restored my faith that if creators (Brit) Marling and (Zal) Batmanglij were given the space and resources to realize the five-season plan they’d had mapped out—five NDEs, five dimensions, five seasons—that all, even the octopus, would be explained in time." ALSO: The OA fans launch a #SaveTheOA petition.

A number of The OA fans believe a conspiracy theory that cancelation is a publicity stunt, or long con

Redditors have found alleged clues that the Netflix series is coming back in the Instagram posts of stars Brit Marling and Jason Isaacs. They have scrutinized Netflix's non-statements and the meta finale to justify their belief that The OA isn't dead. But most of all, says Rachel Handler, The OA's hopeful message is fueling the conspiracy theory. "If you allowed yourself to be swept away by The OA’s strange, gently bonkers poetry, you were rewarded with an increasingly rare sort of hopefulness," says Handler. "Comparisons are often made between The OA and Twin Peaks — another absolutely unhinged show I adore about time, space, and blonde women trapped in interdimensional rooms — but Twin Peaks wasn’t a hopeful show. Twin Peaks held a mirror to humanity’s darkest, most nefarious impulses; it ended with its main characters trapped eternally in the wrong dimension, howling infernally. Conversely, The OA was a show about believing in impossible things (and I don’t mean psychic octopi and brain flowers). The OA was one of the only contemporary shows I’ve ever seen that leaned on the notion — as creator-writer-star Brit Marling put it in her mournful post-cancellation Instagram post — 'that the collective is stronger than the individual,' that 'there is no hero,' that 'humans (are) one species among many and not necessarily the wisest or the most evolved.” It was one of the only shows to grapple directly and beautifully with things like toxic masculinity, American gun violence, PTSD and trauma, the pitfalls of capitalism, impossible ethical quandaries — all this on top of coming up with that freakin’ octopus and staffing one of the most diverse casts and crews in TV history."