The OA is essentially dead: There will be no wrap-up movie and cast members have been - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 08-29-2019, 01:35 AM

...released from their contracts

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/oa-...ng-1203317355/

Co-creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij discussed the possibility of a two-hour wrap-up movie, reports Variety, but two hours wouldn't have been sufficient to wrap up the five seasons worth of story they had planned. Since Netflix also produces The OA, another network can't save the show like Pop TV did with One Day at a Time. Additionally, The OA's cast members have been released from their contracts.

The OA fans' #SaveTheOA campaign has been using playbooks of actual protesters

There have been petitions, flash mobs and at least one hunger strike. The OA fans have also studied the playbooks of past "Save Our Show" campaigns, mailing feathers and mustard packets to Netflix like Roswell fans did when they sent Tabasco sauce to the The WB in 2000. "If any show deserves an overly baroque dance tribute performed in complete sincerity, it’s The OA, which is literally about how dancing herky-jerky with earnest passion and a complete disregard for how ridiculous you look can save the world," says Kate Knibbs. "The over-the-top goofiness is a fitting tribute to the most over-the-top Netflix Original. And while it’s hard to see a flash mob as anything beyond whimsical, other elements of the #SaveTheOA campaign have been startling in how directly they have culled from the playbooks of actual protesters. The level of organization is so impressive it made me momentarily glum that such a formidably coordinated call to direct action was in service of a wildly uneven two-season Netflix Original series and not, well, something else—clean drinking water in Flint or the abolition of concentration camps in the United States, for example. This is not to criticize these fans for their efforts; after all, a person can agitate for the renewal of their favorite show and also pay attention to plenty of other worthy causes. But the way that the #SaveTheOA campaign conflates activism and fandom to an unprecedented degree is as wild as any plot on the show. Whether or not this campaign works, it has taken the stakes of the clashes among fandoms, artists, and industry into a strange and shaky territory." Knibbs adds: "The campaign is so organized, so loud, and so stunt-driven that one couldn’t be blamed for suspecting what the #SaveTheOA group once did—that Netflix is behind it all, pulling the strings for PR. But as time has gone on—and because a company crowdfunding a movement directed at itself might very well be illegal—it’s become clear that not even the streamer would go to lengths like this."

ALSO:

The #SaveTheOA movement is about more than a TV show
The OA hunger striker Emperial Young: "Because this hunger strike is a combination of not just about the TV show but also about the iniquities of capitalism and the inadequate social support structures in our country, there kind of isn’t anything more important"

08-29-2019, 01:35 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,567	The OA is essentially dead: There will be no wrap-up movie and cast members have been ...released from their contracts https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/oa-...ng-1203317355/ Co-creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij discussed the possibility of a two-hour wrap-up movie, reports Variety, but two hours wouldn't have been sufficient to wrap up the five seasons worth of story they had planned. Since Netflix also produces The OA, another network can't save the show like Pop TV did with One Day at a Time. Additionally, The OA's cast members have been released from their contracts. The OA fans' #SaveTheOA campaign has been using playbooks of actual protesters There have been petitions, flash mobs and at least one hunger strike. The OA fans have also studied the playbooks of past "Save Our Show" campaigns, mailing feathers and mustard packets to Netflix like Roswell fans did when they sent Tabasco sauce to the The WB in 2000. "If any show deserves an overly baroque dance tribute performed in complete sincerity, it’s The OA, which is literally about how dancing herky-jerky with earnest passion and a complete disregard for how ridiculous you look can save the world," says Kate Knibbs. "The over-the-top goofiness is a fitting tribute to the most over-the-top Netflix Original. And while it’s hard to see a flash mob as anything beyond whimsical, other elements of the #SaveTheOA campaign have been startling in how directly they have culled from the playbooks of actual protesters. The level of organization is so impressive it made me momentarily glum that such a formidably coordinated call to direct action was in service of a wildly uneven two-season Netflix Original series and not, well, something else—clean drinking water in Flint or the abolition of concentration camps in the United States, for example. This is not to criticize these fans for their efforts; after all, a person can agitate for the renewal of their favorite show and also pay attention to plenty of other worthy causes. But the way that the #SaveTheOA campaign conflates activism and fandom to an unprecedented degree is as wild as any plot on the show. Whether or not this campaign works, it has taken the stakes of the clashes among fandoms, artists, and industry into a strange and shaky territory." Knibbs adds: "The campaign is so organized, so loud, and so stunt-driven that one couldn’t be blamed for suspecting what the #SaveTheOA group once did—that Netflix is behind it all, pulling the strings for PR. But as time has gone on—and because a company crowdfunding a movement directed at itself might very well be illegal—it’s become clear that not even the streamer would go to lengths like this." ALSO: The #SaveTheOA movement is about more than a TV show The OA hunger striker Emperial Young: "Because this hunger strike is a combination of not just about the TV show but also about the iniquities of capitalism and the inadequate social support structures in our country, there kind of isn’t anything more important"