The OA

• Title: The OA – Champion / Away
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The third and fourth episodes of The OA deal predominantly with Prarie‘s (Brit Marling) incarceration in Hap’s (Jason Isaacs) basement and the prisoners various plans for escape. After foiled attempts at poisoning her abductor and running away, Prarie’s chances drastically increase when another near death experience from a blow to the head sends her back to the other reality and then returns her to the world with her sense of sight restored. Strangely, Prairie doesn’t use this advantage to escape, but instead to convince the other guinea pigs to willingly become part of Hap’s experiment in hopes they may touch what she found on the other side.

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• Title: The OA – Homecoming / New Colossus
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The first two episodes of the Netflix original series The OA introduce audiences to an unusual young woman named Prairie (Brit Marling). Reappearing after a seven-year absence, the oddest thing about Prairie isn’t that she doesn’t wish to discuss where she’s been with her parents or the FBI but the fact that when she disappeared she was blind and now she can see. “Homecoming” has an awful lot of set-up as Prairie returns home, makes a few new friends in the high school bully Steve (Patrick Gibson), his teacher (Phyllis Smith), and three other lost souls who, along with Steve, come to an abandoned house to hear Prairie’s story. The episode makes us wait until the final few minutes before revealing Prairie isn’t her real name and the tragic accident which originally robbed her of her sight.

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