The first time I watched it I found it intriguing. I simply couldn't guess where it was going to end. But after the final episode, I felt as though I'd been conned all along.
As a mini-series (which I thought it was supposed to be), it failed its viewers with a climax that came out of nowhere. It simply didn't flow from anything that unfolded in the previous episodes. It seemed as if, having developed a block over creating a finale, the writers desperately grasped at a "hot button" issue in the news as a way out.
Learning that a second season will be released, I went back to re-watch the first season to see what I missed that made it worth filming more. Second time through, it's not even mildly interesting. In fact, it's self-congratulatory tone is evident and it's deadly dull. The creators aren't as intellectually hip and out-of-the box as they think they are.
I'm done with Brit Marling films. Even in her rare commercial work, she projects an air of being too rarefied for Planet Earth. All of her performances are totally opaque. There's never any depth of emotion displayed or even hinted at. As an actress, she runs the gamut from fey to fragile (and not in a good "Audrey Hepburn" kind of way). Unlike Hepburn, she's incapable of projecting any passion, or even warmth.
Having slogged through a second viewing of The OA season one, I'm highly dubious season two is going to be any better.
In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll just skip it.
As a mini-series (which I thought it was supposed to be), it failed its viewers with a climax that came out of nowhere. It simply didn't flow from anything that unfolded in the previous episodes. It seemed as if, having developed a block over creating a finale, the writers desperately grasped at a "hot button" issue in the news as a way out.
Learning that a second season will be released, I went back to re-watch the first season to see what I missed that made it worth filming more. Second time through, it's not even mildly interesting. In fact, it's self-congratulatory tone is evident and it's deadly dull. The creators aren't as intellectually hip and out-of-the box as they think they are.
I'm done with Brit Marling films. Even in her rare commercial work, she projects an air of being too rarefied for Planet Earth. All of her performances are totally opaque. There's never any depth of emotion displayed or even hinted at. As an actress, she runs the gamut from fey to fragile (and not in a good "Audrey Hepburn" kind of way). Unlike Hepburn, she's incapable of projecting any passion, or even warmth.
Having slogged through a second viewing of The OA season one, I'm highly dubious season two is going to be any better.
In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll just skip it.