My wife and I finished watching Netflix’s The OA last night, and I couldn’t help but think that this show quite possibly created the best gif material of 2016.

Without attempting to explain the show at length, which took us virtually keeping Google at-the-ready in an attempt in explaining things ourselves—I’ll simply state that this show is a gift.

Netflix seems to be attempting to keep the overwhelming success of the Stranger Things wheel spinning by providing another science fiction themed series that almost seemed to come straight out of a younger Steven King’s coke-infused imagination.

The protagonist, Prairie—otherwise known as “The OA,” recruits a small band of school kids to help her rescue a group of special individuals who were kidnapped by a scientist trying to prove the evidence of an afterlife.

Mad scientist not looking suspicious at all

These special individuals—or “ND’s” (Near Death Experiencers)—have an apparent inability to die, which is then implied that they may actually be angels.

The OA (who escaped the mad scientist herself) has learned that through a strange combination of moves with five other brave souls; she might be able to rescue her fellow angels by transporting them to another dimension, where they can never become kidnapped in the first place.

This scientist keeps killing these special individuals over and over in the course of seven years to try and record the afterlife by using audio technology… and this is the point where I cease to try and explain the rest of the plot, because that is about the best I can do. Just watch it—please.

The show has accomplished it’s mission in our household, being that we stayed up late watching it back-to-back, trying to gain an understanding of what the fuck was going to happen next.

It didn’t matter that I had a million questions, and it also didn’t matter that I laughed in almost every scene that they did their angel dance of magic.

I was hooked.

It’s like seeing something special, and knowing that you’re seeing something special in that very moment: Like seeing a comet or a bear shitting in the woods. You know it’s rare, and you know it’s special—and don’t you dare fucking blink.

It’s Netflix’s attempt at being serious and artsy, and riding the illustrious coattails of Stranger Things, but, it is indeed very special in it’s own right.

I for one am excited to see where this show is going. If you watch it in the mindset that you’re not going to ask a lot of questions, and you sure as hell shouldn’t analyze the many forks and continuities in it’s plot—then you will enjoy this series as it is meant to be enjoyed.

I really hope this gets another season, because when it does, I’m plotting my ass right back on the previous imprint of my couch, grabbing a bucket of popcorn and enjoying the ride.

❤ ~ C