Does it get better in the 2nd season? I've watched the first, and consider it to be 13 hours of my life completely wasted. The show was just dragging the viewers along pointless tangents, never ultimately revealing whether the "magic"/"tech" in the story exists, or the protagonist is just delusional.
> I've watched the first, and consider it to be 13 hours of my life completely wasted
I really enjoyed the first season. I've "trained" myself to enjoy TV / movies that "get nowhere" as long as they manage to keep my attention. And "The OA" does that.
> Does it get better in the 2nd season?
Regarding the 2nd season, I'm my opinion, there are _a lot_ of scify TV series that start more or less well /interesting (Colony & Falling skies are 2 examples of this). But - I take it to get people interested fast - make big bets in their first season, and then keeping that rhythm proves an impossible task. Falling Skies, for instance, was a complete disappointment. It's like you get people to invent nukes and in the next season they go back to fight with bows & arrows.
I want to keep this spoiler free, but let me tell you this: The 2nd season of "The OA" gets effing weird.
Like, really.
It's not as hardcore as "Legion", where you need to grow a 2nd brain to understand what the heck is going on, or high fantasy tune as "American Gods" but I found it really entertaining - although at points the story drags a little - but they managed to build / invent a rather interesting universe, that unfortunately we'll never get to see again.
I mean, the "is it real or not" is the point of the show :)
The second season is...different. I loved the first season, but had more difficulty with the second. Its not bad, and offers -a few- answers, but if you don't like the unexplained/mysterious aspects of the first season, definintely skip the second.
