I’m late to the party, having known about this show since it first appeared on Netflix but just now getting around to watching. I’m enjoying it so far. A couple of thoughts and observations about this episode:
Prairie tells her story to her audience an hour at a time, and they sit and then try to puzzle out pieces of it together. The OA (the show) and its audience does the same.
We now know that Prairie’s NDE’s element was air (to Hap, she described wind as its prominent feature), and her creature was a bird. Homer’s was water - we saw the flooding urinals and the aquarium, and his creature was a fish. (The aquarium, incidentally, was shaped like their holding cells, and Prairie’s celestial room seems to be, as well, though it’s harder to discern). We didn’t really get to see much of Scott’s NDE but it appeared to start with fire. I’m guessing the final two will be earth and then aether (spirit), and the spirit will involve ethereal beings (angelic forms).
I have to go back and watch the final moment of each episode and pay more attention to the glowing ring. In this episode the one ring became two. I assume one for Prairie and one for Homer, and the glowing rings are actually halos.
In the scene where Hap is in his bed (and notices Prairie and Homer practicing their moves, via the monitor), I noticed that above his headboard their is a big art piece in the shape of a scaled snake/serpent. If the prisoners are angels, then it seems like the show is letting us know that Hap is the devil.
Review by N'Delamiko BeyBlockedParentSpoilers2016-12-21T03:52:21Z
Hap is monstrous for what he's doing to these people. Homer (Emory Cohen), is tragic, sad, indeed Homer being the lynchpin and Hap mercilessly using him to manipulate the others, break the trust between them... just ugh! Jason Isaacs is doing a magnificent job of making me loathe this character.
The OA is amazing. She's amazing. The 'movements' and the celestial portal... yeah, I'm down. I get it. I SCREAMED when I got it!!!! And regardless of what he's done, Homer remained a soldier and a believer in what they were doing.
Oh this show just slipped into a whole level of weirdness that I super appreciate. The OA, who as I previously noted, while appearing to everyone else to be 'unhinged', is proving to be a strong, tough, relentless pursuer and believer in love and freedom and truth. At the end of this episode, we see just how strong and truly powerful she is.
Oh my, what a good episode this was! Oh how I loathe Hap, but one has to ask this question: If we are working with the holographic universe model, and that which is observed changes to produce the effect that the observer requires, desires, or simply as a reaction to being observed, how much of what is happening with these five people is being made possible by the evil, twisted, horrible, disgusting, awful Hap Hunter?
Oh my... This is certainly one of the best written shows I've seen in awhile. As weird as the ride has been, it's remained consistent and engrossing throughout.
I get how this would never have worked on network television, but finds a perfect niche with the Netflix crowd. Long live the Internet!