It ’s been two years since Netflix announce that it was renewing Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij ’s controversial showThe OAfor a second time of year . At the clip , they relinquish ateaser trailerthat had glimpses of the Golden Gate Bridge and the wordsurvivedin Braille . Today , they dropped a poke for the 2d time of year , which will debut March 22 . The tagline ? " No one survive alone . "
It ’s an appropriately mysterious trailer for a show that left looker guessing about whether or not the tale Prairie ( Marling ) order — which included near - death experiences , being held captive against her will , motion that open up a threshold to another property , and angels — was even real . Here ’s what we do know aboutThe OA ’s second season .
1. The second season is titledThe OA: Part II.
In a 2016interviewwithThe Hollywood Reporter , Batmanglij explained thatThe OA ’s unusual format — which feature episodes of alter lengths — was exhort by novels . “ We wanted to take what we love about a novel and the novelistic experience and put it on the farsighted - data format serial experience — not having all the graphic symbol in the first hour , not having all the chapter be the same duration , ” he said . “ Could you imagine if the chapter of a book were all the same length ? It would be queer . So we opine to ourselves about those constraints . Also , novels are often about something . They have an aim that the writer is attempt to get across , and I think both Brit and I felt that we wanted to do that , too . We wanted to seek to say something that we believed in . ” HetoldEsquirethat , “ I opine the novel analogy mould really well ; it ’s a novel , but it could well be a serial of novels . And I think it would be best as a serial of novels ! ”
That aid take the co - Lord when they resolve what to call the second season . “ We always thought of [ the parts of the OA ] almost like record book , and there could be many different volumes , ” Marlingsaidin an interview with Vulture when asked about why the new season would be called " Part II . "
2. Part ofThe OA: Part IItakes place in a different dimension than the first.
In the laggard above , Prairie — who claim she could unfold another attribute — awakens in the hospital to find herself in a parallel universe . AccordingtoEntertainment Weekly , Prairie has " successfully channelise her knowingness into an alternate - macrocosm edition of herself"—a fertile Russian heiress who was never a intent and was never experimented on . ( Although , according to theofficial synopsis , she does " once again [ find ] herself as Hap ’s captive . " )
" It was really delicious to plunge back into a realm you had been cozy with and land in the dead body of someone who had not been through all the experiences we watch over Prairie go through in Part I , ” Marling toldEntertainment Weekly . Prairie ’s friends , meanwhile , are back in the property she left behind .
3.The OA: Part IIwas “carefully planned.”
in short after the first season ofThe OAdebuted without discourage on Netflix , BatmanglijtoldEsquirethat , although he and Marling “ want [ season one ] to be its own standalone piece , ” they “ did n’t want to go into it without having the larger moving picture project out — I think the interview can always enjoin that , or finger it . ” As hetoldThe Hollywood newsman , “ This is a account that ’s carefully planned … When we started , Brit and I spend two or three years conceiving of a whole world before we brought it to anybody , before it ever left our bedrooms . ”
Marling assuredTHR — and fans of the show — that “ there is an answer to every enigma and nothing is done to just be strait and fury expire nowhere . It all break down somewhere . ”
The goal , sheexplainedtoEntertainment Weeklyin 2017 , was to make a show that could stand up to the examination of the internet years . “ Now you’re able to stop and start , you’re able to watch it three times , you’re able to screengrab and apportion it and be on Reddit , ” she said . “ So you have to have a narrative that ’s robust enough to subsist up to that expectation . So we really tried to suppose about that and verify every image and every frame was honest , and if we should get more than one season out , you could go back and watch the first time of year again and go , ' It was all there . ' ”
Which , of course , have in mind they had a clear picture of the second season : “ There is a place that season two already lead off in our minds and a place in which it ends , ” she said . Hopefully this means we wo n’t have to wait too long for it !
4.The OA: Part IIexplores the first season’s sci-fi roots more deeply.
“ The first part is the taradiddle of a untested char who is traumatise and tells a group of male child this story and in so doing , allow them to face a minute of their own crisis at the end , ” Marling explained to Vulture in 2017 . “ That is the ego - contained floor , but the more science fiction metaphysical threads are receptive - concluded , so there can be a part 2 in which we can dive into those spaces . ”
5.The OA: Part IIinvolves a missing teenager—and a mysterious house.
The original cast is back , butThe OA : Part IIalso adds Kingsley Ben - Adir ( Peaky Blinders , Vera ) as private investigator Karim Washington , who is looking for a miss teenager named Michelle Vu who was playing some kind of on-line game when she vanished . According to the outline , " His course cut across with OA , as they prove to work the enigma of Michelle ’s whereabouts and a house on Nob Hill connected to the disappearance of several teenagers . " In the trailer , the house is described as a place where everyone " either come up cracked up or does n’t come out at all . "
6.The OA: Part IIfound inspiration in film noir.
As Batmanglij toldEntertainment Weekly , “ We think of Part II as very much a noir . We want to make out in through the persona of a misanthropic detective . Films likeThe Big Sleepdidn’t seem antediluvian [ when they came out ] . They were very forward-looking . That ’s why we thought , ‘ What better place than San Francisco and the technical school world to prepare a noir today ? ’ ”
7. There will be answers to some ofThe OA’s most pressing questions.
MarlingtoldMarie Clairein 2016 that “ there are reply to all of the doubt . That ’s the toothsome thing about the gap between season . mass watch and take it in , revel in the enigma , fence about it online . And then , if they should be so lucky , the storyteller get to meet the audience when the story continues . ”
But neither Marling or Batmanglij generate any hints . In 2016 , whenaskedbyRolling Stoneabout some of the most discussed question provide linger from season one , Batmanglij was coy . Kahtun ’s kingdom is “ not purgatory — or maybe it is . It ’s supposed to be something specific … I do n’t think anyone ’s pick up on what it is just quite yet . ” Was the FBI agent who randomly shows up in the Johnsons ' menage in the last installment of the first season planting evidence ? “ I ’m just beaming mass are asking that interrogation . I was hoping they would be , and they are . [ But ] I ca n’t evidence you just yet . ” Are the book under Prairie ’s seam an meter reading that she ’s lying ? “ There are two obvious options and straight-out other choice why those exist . One is , if you ’re traumatized by something , you might read up on it . But there ’s also a more misanthropic view that she was using those books to tell a story . ”
Translation : You ’re just going to have to tune in to receive out . To see what happens , watchThe OA : Part IIon Netflix on March 22 .
A reading of this narration guide in 2017 .
