Netflix has cancelled the 3rd season of mystery drama show ‘The OA’.
‘The OA’ is an American mystery drama web television series starring Brit Marling as a blind woman who disappeared seven years ago and suddenly return with her sight restored.
Upon her return, Prairie calls herself The OA (for Original Angel), exhibits scars on her back, and can see, despite having been blind when she disappeared.
The show, which debuted in December 2016 and created and executive produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.
Netflix’s Vice President of original content Cindy Holland told, “We are incredibly proud of the 16 mesmerizing chapters of ‘The OA,’ and are grateful to Brit and Zal for sharing their audacious vision and for realizing it through their incredible artistry. We look forward to working with them again in the future, in this and perhaps many other dimensions.”
But Brit Marling who plays Prairie and produced the show wrote on Instagram, “Zal and I are deeply sad not to finish the story. The first time I heard the news I had a good cry.
“So did one of our executives at Netflix that has been with us since the early days when we were sketching out Hap’s basement on the floor of our production office in Queens. It’s been an intense journey for everyone who worked on and cared for this story.”
The hashtag #SaveOA has started trending on Twitter with more than 110,000 tweets being posted about the show.
Season 1 of “The OA” came in December 2016, while Season 2 debuted nearly three years later in March of this year. The series received mostly positive reviews from critics.
