An episode-by-episode discussion of Netflix series The OA: what the hell is going on? what might go on in future episodes? why is this so damn good?
Including: the mechanics of a chick teleportation device; nostalgia for old Radiohead videos; and Ethan finally comes off the fence and decides that Hap is probably not a nice guy…
Including: how you go about constructing a modernist glass dungeon without raising suspicions; Homer’s possibly questionable taste in wolf sweatshirts; and whether having a dead girl in your bath is always an indication of a poor moral code.
Including: the poignancy of Emma Lazurus’ poem; possibly over-zealous psychiatric prescribing practices in the 1990s; and whether the future evil plans of new apparent bad guy Hap are going to involve recreating old Keifer Sutherland movies…
Ethan and Talia discuss the first episode of Season 1 of The OA, ‘Homecoming’. Including: the bald confidence needed to place a title sequence an hour into the show; nit-picking about maternal mortality statistics in Gorbachev’s USSR; and the likely problem-solving skills of a low level middle-class drug dealer.