Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij left audiences speechless when they ended the first season of their groundbreaking Netflix sci-fi series, “The OA,” on a cliffhanger. As OA (Marling) is rushed to the hospital after being shot during a visceral, topical school shooting scene, she proclaims to the kids that they succeeded. After the screen cuts to black, we see a bright hospital room, before cutting to black, again, as OAs disembodied voice mumbles, “Homer?”

“The OA” hasn’t lost any creative steam during the over two-year hiatus between seasons. In ‘Part II,’ the narrative scope is wider, the interwoven scientific undertones more ambitious, the character arcs further traversed for richer development while allowing for new ones, the new San Francisco setting utilized impeccably to maximum effect, and Marling and Batmanglij meticulously tie up virtually every loose end from Season 1, while raising a new set of questions to be pondered.

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