The OA’ Season 1 Recap: Everything You Need to Remember Before Season 2
BY HALEIGH FOUTCH MARCH 22, 2019

Be aware there are spoilers for the entire first season of Netflix’s The OA.

It’s been a long wait for Season 2 of The OA. The puzzling fantasy series debuted on Netflix in December of 2016, sparking mixed reviews, endless theorizing, and plenty of passionate bar debates about what the heck actually happened in Season 1. Staged across eight episodes, loosely an hour each, The OA‘s first season unfolded a mysterious, dazzling, and often baffling story that somehow blended the Russian mob, angels, a scientifically pioneering kidnapper, resurrection, a pack of Midwestern teenage boys, a school shooting, and a series of dance movements that supposedly allow you to travel through dimensions — all told by an unreliable narrator.

It was a lot to process, even when it was fresh, so it’s no surprise if you’ve forgotten exactly what happened in the two-plus years since. If you don’t have time to dive give another eight hours to a re-watch, we’ve got you covered with all the essential details you need to remember. Whether you’re looking for a detailed recap, just need to brush up on a specific character, or want a refresher on what the hell that ending meant, check through the categories below for everything you may have forgotten.

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The OA begins with an impossibly intriguing premise — a young woman (Brit Marling) re-emerges after seven years missing, except now, the once-blind girl can see, earning her the nickname the “Michigan Miracle” That young woman is called Prairie Johnson, the adopted daughter of an aging couple, who returns home to her small Midwestern town and, rather than trying to reacclimate to her life outside captivity, sets out on a mysterious mission to rescue the people who were held hostage with her — especially one named Homer, for whom she records video confessionals and obsessively searches for online.

Prairie’s adoptive parents are Nancy (Alice Krige) and Abel (Scott Wilson), an elderly couple who unexpectedly found Prairie in an off-the-books adoption ring and chose her over a baby boy they were planning to adopt. They are fiercely protective of Prairie, heavily medicating her as a child after signs of mental illness, and only more so after she returns from seven years missing, which leads to constant conflict with their now adult daughter. Prairie also has an FBI-appointed counselor, Elias Rahim (Riz Ahmed), who helps her process her trauma and is found mysteriously walking through her house at night in the finale. While Prairie tells BBA and the boys the story of Hap and Homer, she tells Elias the story of BBA and the boys.


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