Your favorite genre-bending show is coming back for a second season. Netflix has greenlit Season 2 of “The OA,” Variety reports. Now’s a great time to break out your own interpretation of The Movements.
Brit Marling, the show’s co-creator and producer, stars as Prairie Johnson, “a young blind woman who returns to her hometown after an unexplained seven-year absence — her eyesight restored and now calling herself ‘The OA,’” Variety summarizes. “She refuses to talk about her disappearance with anyone except four teenage boys and their high school teacher, sharing an incredible story involving her past identities, abduction, and transdimensional travels in order to recruit them for a mysterious mission.”
Netflix released the first season of the “The OA” mid-December. No word on when the new episodes will hit the streaming giant.
Marling, who is among the series’ writers, has said that she is inspired to write because the roles available to women often lack substance. “I’m wondering why there aren’t more representatives of women that are like the women we know?” Marling questioned. “Where’s the film with the women who are complicated and strong and beautiful and sexy and interesting and of all body types? You don’t get to see enough of them. So there’s something important in attempting to write them for myself and for the insanely talented women out there,” the “Arbitrage” actress explained.
Along with Marling, “The OA’s” cast includes Phyllis Smith (“The Office”), Emory Cohen (“Brooklyn”), Scott Wilson (“The Walking Dead”), and Alice Krige (“Star Trek: First Contact”).
Check out a teaser for the second installment of the series below. While it’s not very revealing or informative, it will get you in the mood for more mind-bending fun.
