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Netflix cancels The OA after 2 seasons

By Cynthia Vinney

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 19: The OA Co-creator Brit Marling attends THE OA PART II at Bing Theatre At LACMA on March 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 19: The OA Co-creator Brit Marling attends THE OA PART II at Bing Theatre At LACMA on March 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix) /
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Sad news for fans of esoteric mysteries: Netflix has canceled the series The OA.

The OA‘s second season premiered in March, over 2 years after the series’ first season debuted in late 2016.  While Netflix doesn’t regularly release viewer numbers, it seems likely viewership dropped between the series’ first and second seasons.

The show, created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, centered on a blind woman who returns home after going missing seven years beforehand. Not only can she now see, she also has strange scars on her back and calls herself the OA. She reveals her story to an eclectic group of locals who begin to buy into her strange narrative. Marling starred as the title character. Jason Isaacs, Scott Wilson, and Phyllis Smith co-starred.

Of the cancellation, Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of Original Content said:

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"We are incredibly proud of the 16 mesmerizing chapters of The OA, and are grateful to Brit and Zal for sharing their audacious vision and for realizing it through their incredible artistry. We look forward to working with them again in the future, in this and perhaps many other dimensions."

It’s become regular practice for Netflix to cancel shows between their second and third seasons. It seems that the viewership for many series no longer justifies the money Netflix puts into them.

That’s the price show creators must pay for deciding to take their content to Netflix. Netflix gives them great creative freedom — as it did with Marling and Batmanglij on The OA. However, the shows are unlikely to last for too many seasons.

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The OA arrived on Netflix to a lot of hype and intrigue. However, without any real answers by the end of the head-scratching first season, the response to the arrival of the second season was more muted. For fans who stuck with it though, the show’s cancellation is a loss. The OA was a true original.

Are you bummed that Netflix canceled The OA? Get your feelings out in the comments.

(Source: Deadline)

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