The OA

Netflix released an eight part series last month called The OA. The title is short for the Original Angel. Prarie is a girl who is reunited with her adoptive parents seven years after she goes missing. She was blind when she disappeared. She can now see. And she has strange scars on her back.

Prarie assembles a bunch of kids plus one teacher from her school. They meet in an abandoned house at night. She asks them to each leave the front doors of their houses open. She then goes and tells them her entire life story.

The synopsis of the story she tells is that she is a young girl in Russia who has a near death experience after a school bus crash. She is sent to the USA to live with her aunt. Then she get adopted by two old parents. She leaves for New York because she feels like she can somehow find her dad there.

Prarie says she is kidnapped by a weird doctor that studies near death experience cases. She finds other prisoners in the underground mine where she is trapped. The doctor performs experiments on the prisoners. They unite as Prarie thinks they can use some sort of magic to summon a portal to get the heck out of there.

There is a lot more to this series. There are eight episodes, each of which is about 45 minutes long. There is occasional gratuitous sex scenes. The ideas of the near death experiences are literally out of this world. It reminds me a little of a previous work by the main character called The Sound of My Voice.