I rewatched The OA when I heard that Britt Marling and Val Batmanglij have a new series, A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD. The 2nd season of THE OA only dropped in 2019, but that seems like a decade ago and from a different world. Looking back now after my 2020 Time Awakening, I am constantly stopping to write down quotes and do screen grabs of the ideas Marling and Batmanglij came up with. Such as:
We’ve been trying to get out. No, We have to try to get in.
We’ve been acting like lab rats.
Lab rats are only powerless because they don’t understand that they are in an experiment.
But they’re just as much a part of it as the scientist, in some ways even more.
We aren’t unloved or unlucky. We are angels.
This is my favorite, and it applies to some of my own words when I transcribe a session:
I know I sound like a crazy person when I say it. I know.
And on the difficult process of putting into words a non-physical concept that exists outside of linear Time:
I don’t know. When I say it out loud, it all falls apart.
I’ve just started Part 2, which takes place in a parallel reality to Part 1.
This was their final season due to Netflix’s frustrating business model that rarely gives creators a third season. In interviews, Marling and Batmanglij have reported they had a 5-season arc planned, and are still hoping for a movie to wrap up their storyline.