Overall Thoughts<\/strong> section to get a spoiler-free conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNo Spoiler OA Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So…I guess I’ll give you the premise based on the first five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It opens with vertical cell phone camera footage taken by a kid in a car of a girl running across a bridge of traffic and jumping off to her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except, she wakes up in the hospital having miraculously survived. She says her name is “The OA.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We cut to an older couple who receive a phone call. The person tells them to go to Youtube to watch this video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple shows up at the hospital and claims to be her legal guardians, but they think her name is Prairie. There’s strange scarring on her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has no memory of the people claiming to be her parents. The mother takes the girl’s hand and puts it on her face. The girl closes her eyes and says, “Mom.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The father tells the nurse that she went missing seven years ago and was blind. She’s never seen them before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open Loops<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I know what you’re thinking: why did you tell me all of episode one? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nI didn’t! That all happens in the first five minutes, and the pacing is brilliant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One highly effective way to hook someone with a story is to use something called an “open loop.” This is where the story forces the reader\/watcher to ask a question and then doesn’t answer it right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the loops open and close right away: <\/p>\n\n\n\n