Oh fuck off with these families that go out and shoot together.  Seriously, fuck off.  Go for a bike ride.  Get a new hobby.  Your country has a PROBLEM.  You aren’t mature enough to handle guns.  Sorry.

gun humpers: “I nEeD mY frEEdumZ! ... let’s track more personal information!!!”

Hey Trump. Remember how you talked about the mental health crisis in the US?

Picture = 1,000 words. (Spot. The. Difference.)

In addition to finding it bonkers and weird, I also found it well-written, and “good,” whatever that means, as well as very well-acted. It’s just that, you know, there are a bunch of well-written, good shows out there, but not all of them are this bonkers and weird, so that’s what I tend to comment on, first.

Yes. It’s really good. You should watch anyway despite the cancelation. A very different setting. You’ll love it if you half-way liked the first.

Season 2 was much better and higher production value. Give it a try.

It’s telling that every positive OA article/comment just talks about how bonkers and weird it is and never says that it is actually a well written, good show.

I didn’t find the second season closer confusing at all. Hal took them to a dimension where they are actors making a show about The OA’s real life, and also a married couple.

Pretty sure it would have all between about her losing her OA identity and being gas lighted into thinking she’s too deep in her acting or…

I had, literally, never heard of Brit Marling before this show came out, and I was pretty blown away by it. I’m a 42 year-old suburban dad. I can appreciate a show for having an abstract, high concept that tries to be ambitious and tell stories in new interesting ways.

This is horrible and inexplicable news. Season 2 was SO GOOD, and I just can’t believe they would leave us with that “art meets life” (if you can call it that) ending without getting a payoff. Oh, I am really brokenhearted by this. Perhaps there will be enough outrage to get them to reverse the decision?!  

No, some of us who had no idea who Marling was before this really liked it. It had great cinematography and the plot was really good imho.

You sound like a lot of fun. 

Perhaps a 30 year industry veteran could have picked up a few tidbits about film making along the way.

Natasha Lyonne, creator and star of one of the highest rated TV shows and listed as one of AV Club’s best shows of 2019 so far (https://tv.avclub.com/the-best-tv-of-2019-so-far-1835661594), has the audacity to try directing (oh, she directed the season finale of that show too? What?). Shouldn’t she be playing with…

That is definitely the tone this piece gives off in the first line.

I agree that’s a misreading, but it is still a little lame how the counterexamples of hobbies in the first sentence are all much more associated with women than men.

It’s a bit how I read it, too. Why should a logical expansion/growth of her career be compared to taking up a hobby? It’s not taking her seriously as a professional, but positioning it as a frivolous summer pastime.

I’m glad Barsanti is here to take Natasha Lyonne down a peg. To think! A woman director! A directress! The very idea!

I would be into Natasha Lyonne bossing me around & I suspect I am not alone in this, so it seems like she should be a good director.