Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Videos

  • 548533776.mp4

Downloads

Content

Sucks that we don't have more smh. Regardless, it was fun🔥

Files

Comments

Laura Thate

I have too much to say…

Ellen Noir

Same. All my theories, reflections, frustrations etc. could be an essay.

Laura Thate

I wrote a huge dissertation and decided it was too much so I deleted it.

Dylan Schaefer

Being that The OA is (currently, fingers forever crossed) unfinished there's a mountain of unresolved threads and ideas here. On this watch the detail that stuck out to me was Old Night mentioning OA's "brother". It struck me that that "brother" is perhaps Karim AND Rahim, that they are spiritual cousins part of the same design. The names Karim and Rahim (as well as Old Nights true name Azrael) are of Arabic origin, each with Islamic significance. Karim roughly means honour, and Rahim roughly means mercy, both noble traits one could expect of a Protector. Add to that the material influence each character has on OA's life: support on her way to a kind of self actualization. Idk, this train of thought only occurred to me tonight so it's not fully fleshed out, but it feels like there's something there. I hope they get to make more of this one day.

punkrockpollyanna

Now you know why we hate Netflix. I can FINALLY tell you that Jason Isaacs (Hap) has said that he would come back to this story, anytime/anywhere. I've been wanting to say all series, but didn't want to spoil if our nemesis made it to the end. If HBO has any sense, they would fund Brit and Zal for anything they want to create AFTER they finish making seasons 3-5 of The OA.

punkrockpollyanna

I think that Michelle had her essence sucked into World 3 Buck when she was filmed at the Rose Window in World 2. So when Karim had "Buck" come up the ladder, the newly integrated essence of Michelle and Buck jumped into Michelle's formerly comatose body back in World 2. If that makes any sense. haha

alienqueen

this ending is so insane and stuck with me for sooooo long the first time i watched. love how season one and two both ended with steve chasing after oa in an ambulance, only this time he was able to reach her!!! this show is so beautiful and strange and i will NEVER forgive netflix for cancelling it 😭 never giving up hope that it will come back somehow someday 🙏 thanks again for reacting to this show!!!!! 💜

Sabrina YCFM

The frustrating bit and the genius of the the OA is that the show in itself is a puzzle. we get glimpses of the "what the show could have been", knowing enough of the vague plot of season 3, excitement of getting more answers and even more questions. we need the remaining 3 seasons badly. BADLY. Zal and Brit are invested in finishing the story. We have faith. Leave your doors open!!

melskmelsk

I read that Jason went to dinner with Brit and Zal sometime after it was cancelled. They told him things about S3 and he apparently ran out of the restaurant and screamed awhile on the sidewalk. He's like the biggest OA fan lol I love it

melskmelsk

I can't say whether that's for the best or not, and I'm curious about what you wrote, but there's also something beautiful about writing something out then deleting it. Like art made from sand then wiped away, the creation still means something. Maybe it's being published in another dimension ;)

melskmelsk

I'm fascinated by the commentary on belief and non-belief... And the way we want to cling on to easy answers (the books in S1, the gas in S2, mental illness across both). Interesting too that we have a much firmer non-believer in Karim this season (who requires a much clearer display of the unbelievable to become a believer). I wonder how that would manifest in S3 and beyond. I WONDER SO MANY THINGGSSSS

melskmelsk

It just struck me that Elodie is like Khatun: a messenger, a guide... Parallel characters like Karim and Rahim (in theory anyway)

melskmelsk

And now that I'm thinking about parallels as Ruskin talks, he's saying the same things Hap's mentor was saying in S1

melskmelsk

"That's not Michelle: that's Michelle's shell."

melskmelsk

OBSESSED with Brit's portrayal of Nina in THAT SUIT !! The way Hap's all nervous watching her smoke outside, the way he's not equipped to handle the fully integrated OA and he doesn't fake it well... Love to see that man squirm.

melskmelsk

When Homer remembers/integrates and then BBA realizes it was Steve in her dreams... GOOSEBUMPS ON GOOSEBUMPS

Reel Reaction

When they broke the fourth wall i literally screamed!!! I wish we could have seen this dimension where they are playing a version of the "real world" i cant forgive Netflix for this haha and that quote behind the door always makes me think that the show would have been a loop....going back to the begining aka the crestwood dimension. Such potential we will never experience. I really enjoyed your reqction to thi, THANK YOU 💜

Eboe Thrasher

Yeah I've never seen the show before and when he said "I'm Jason Isaacs" I was like EXCUSE ME???? Can't wait for Frank to start season 3 of White Lotus now. I know what we will hear all season.

melskmelsk

So I think Dimension 2 (Season 2) and the next dimension (Dimension 3, S3, the "actor dimension") were blurring together at the end because of the extra power of the D1 five doing the movements. D2 OA was levitating because D3 Brit Marling was being levitated in a stunt –which then goes wrong just as OA and Hap jump from D2 to D3. Brit falls. Steve collapses, meaning he traveled too. Karim is still in D2 but he's at the rose window which seems to be an interdimensional portal. We saw Michelle at that window before; she collapsed when she opened it because she traveled to D3 into Ian Alexander. Buck is still in D1 as far as we know. Ian Alexander can hear Karim because they're a traveler, because they're integrated with Michelle. Ian reaches through the window-portal and Michelle travels back to D2. Hap referring to himself as Jason Isaacs isn't a lie (that would be who he is in D3) and seems to indicate that he's integrated with his D3 version which is interesting –affected by OA's power? I love that Steve catches the ambulance and OA this time, and I love that we end knowing that Hap isn't getting off easy.

melskmelsk

"There's no nothing after this..............." Welcome to the pain of incomplete OA 😩 There is life after, in rewatches and pondering and video essays and such. There are some very interesting threads on the subreddit (r/TheOA) too! This went by too quick! Thank you so much again for watching this one with us Frank 🙏

melskmelsk

I'll see if I can find any of the OA video essays I enjoyed... Be back with links if I do!

Danielle Long

I like that the end is that they jumped into the real world, or very close to it. where Jason Isaacs is Jason Isaacs, a british guy, because in real life he is british. Brit Marling is Brit Marling. Where Brit Marling is the OA. and she remembers. She just doesn't believe, just like Hap said. Where it's all a tv show. it's like the story continues, in real life.

Danielle Long

really appreciate you bringing the story back to life for us viewers. How did you like the fourth wall break?

Nicole

Shoutout to BBA! The OA did ask us to believe in impossible things and I a l w a y s thought that meant a next season. Thanks Frank, that was a nice rewatch even though I want to send Netflix to jail.

Laura Thate

What a beautifully articulated response. Yes some things are better written from your mind, spirit and soul just so they can be released acknowledged and take flight wherever they may go, after you have meditated the sand.

punkrockpollyanna

Dead like Me was a great show. Every so often, I hunt it down on streaming and rewatch!

punkrockpollyanna

I need to change Buck to Ian Alexander (thank you Mels.. for the better understanding!) Yes, World 3 or Dimension 3, is the actor world, so it wouldn't be Buck; it would be Ian.

punkrockpollyanna

thank you for helping me clarify the Michelle, Buck, Ian Alexander arc in my mind. I was a step off in the final scene with them

frankfreezy

I didn't even realize their names holy shit

frankfreezy

The real world would have been amazing. Thanks for watching

frankfreezy

I love that you brought up the topic of belief

Amanda Hill

Ugh the end of the finale just makes me mad all over again they cancelled it. Especially with Steve jumping too and his “hello Hap” and also WHERE TF is Homer again? So the creators were given the chance to wrap this up with a movie but they turned it down in hopes of a few more seasons. Now six years later, I wish they would’ve at least taken the movie option. Maybe one day. This story has SO much potential.

Mitzi McCoy

If billionaires have to exist the LEAST they could do is fund OA, for the betterment of all mankind. I’m pissed all over again.

melskmelsk

I'm finally back with links to my fav YT OA content! Or what I could remember/find! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXqxCIs859Q –The OA fake cancellation theory (interesting copium) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMdQfsUYNKQ –The OA theme reversed https://youtu.be/mC5tcaXLzfo?si=wvTTj2CZ7Y-u9WII –the metaphysics of the 5 movements and broader metaphysical OA theorizing https://youtu.be/wKF2CtwT8MA?si=-RFxbZwt0XTkkCBj –strongly grounded theories as to how seasons/dimensions 3, 4, 5 would have played out (contains spoilers for A Murder at The End of The World and The Recordist) https://youtu.be/vlRNnC7GupQ?si=-rWXnJ_LUDfXtNKs –5 movements flash mob

Holls Flynnigan

I’ll never forgive Netflix for cancelling this beautiful show 😭

michael j hill

This show could come back at any time, even if some of the actors die in real life that could be part of the story if it comes back, I still hold out hope

Jesse De Bruin

The fact that they have a script till season 5… fck ass netflix😀

Chelsey Linden

You probably should at least think about wanting to learn the 5 movements. When I did them I had a dream I was in another dimension I woke up on the floor and there was a tv in front of me turned on and on it was outer space with I think it showing the planet earth I then went towards the tv and I touched it and after that I woke up. I felt it inside me I was in another dimension Angel Frank. Thank you for reacting to my obsessive tv show. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Chelsey Linden

Do you really think that HBO can possibly pick it up? What about Hulu or Disney+? After all that’s where A Murder At The End Of The World was playing on Angel Polly.