Netflix's new suicidal thriller, The OA recently released on the online streaming platform. The show focusing on afterlife, journey of the soul and angels gives a mind-boggling trip to viewers. The first season of the thriller show revolved around a blind, missing teenager, Prairie Johnson, returning home after seven years.
Through the eight episodes, it is understood that Prairie and her friends are Original Angels and they have the capability to travel to the parallel dimension. To learn and prove to the world that there is something called the afterlife, a crazy doctor, Dr Happ has set up a lab in a morgue where he conducts experiments to prove his theory of afterlife. Through the series, viewers are questioned about life after death, sanity of the doctor, reliability of Prairie story and many other questions.
But the most recurring question that fans are curious to know is if her story is true. According to a Reddit fan theory, the books found with OA are not hers, as the fan feels that she couldn't read. The theory says that assuming her story is true, under that circumstances, she couldn't have read those books because she was blind when she came to America and never learned how to read in English, without a braille. But is that the truth?
In a recent interview with Esquire, Zal Batmanglij, one of the creators of the show, said "Well, it's very important that what you're seeing is not a flashback—it's the boys' interpretation of the story she's telling, and their imagination of it. The thing about stories is you have to believe them to get through them, and so even the biggest skeptic has to suspend disbelief to get to the end of the story, so we were relying on the fact that both the audience and the boys would go through that experience."
"In the beginning, certainly the boys question whether or not she's a reliable narrator, but you know... When somebody's spinning a good yarn, you might want to fact-check, but the power of the story can sometimes take over, and the next thing you know you've taken one leap of faith after another," shares co-creator Brit Marling.
So are we seeing the truth? Or is this all made up in her head or the boys' head? We will definitely see a second season. "We'd of course love to keep telling the story, and we've spent some time thinking about the mathematics of where it would go," confirms Marling.
