Review of Overview

For me the beauty of the OA (season 1) was the grounded high-school cast around the ephemeral Brit Marling. It was a magical mix. In season 2 the creators chose to sideline the high-schoolers and concentrate on Brit Marling/the OA and the fantasy world/s around her. I'm surprised by the ratings here for Magic Mirror and Mirror Mirror, because they were my favourites from this second season. Although I enjoyed the mostly fantasy elements of the rest this season, I find the core of this show to be the character driven scenes with BBA, Steve, Jesse, Alfonso and Buck. So I was fairly enjoying the episode finale which features all of them... until the final 5 minutes. The twist delivered felt disastrously premature. This was a turn of events for a series finale, not a second season finale. The bad wig was the icing on an underdone cake. Hopefully proved wrong with season 3, looking forward to it. 7/10 for Overview.