Well, it looks like Netflix is pulling a “Cloverfield” on everybody. The streaming service has been keeping details and even the very existence of “The OA” under wraps all year, but just like that they are dropping it on the service on Friday, which might be perfect in case your local screening of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” is sold out.
From Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the team behind “Sound Of My Voice” and “The East,” the story kicks off when a missing blind girl returns home, with her sight intact. Here’s the official synopsis:
The Netflix original series The OA, which launches this Friday, is from visionaries Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice, The East), who created and wrote the eight chapter, mind-bending odyssey together. The show begins with a missing blind girl in her twenties, Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling), who comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk about her seven years missing with the FBI or her parents.
Co-starring Emory Cohen, Scott Wilson, Phyllis Smith, Jason Isaacs, Alice Krige, Patrick Gibson, Brendan Meyer, and newcomers Ian Alexander and Brandon Perea, all eight chapters of “The OA” land on December 16th.
