The OA
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- i_monk0
It's pretty flawed, but I liked it. I've heard it's planned to have a three season arc, so I wouldn't expect a whole lot to be resolved.
The did-she-make-it-all-up? unreliable narrator part was very sloppy: it comes in too late, is undermined by how her entire backstory is played straight until then, her search/obsession with Homer before she could possibly have ordered the Homer book from the internet (and the video corroborating his existence), and her description of the third premonition (and the fact she knew to run there at the right time) matches the event in question.
Hap letting her go was also sloppy. He has no trouble killing his test subjects over and over again and perma-killed at least two of them (though one did come back) without issue, so why dump her at the side of the road? A mine-owning doctor with a pilot's license and known ports of arrival/departure and a dead/missing cop and ALS-suffering wife shouldn't be hard to cross-reference.
When Prairie's mother said she never left a note, I was convinced the Prairie we saw was one who had travelled from another dimension – she'd left a note, but the Prairie she replaced didn't. Sad that didn't turn out to be the case.
I thought the movements were awesome. Sorry. Reminded me of the finger tutting magic in The Magicians. Having "OA" stand for "original angel" was stupid though.