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Comcast Sports Ventures
Trading name
Comcast Spectacor
Formerly called
Spectacor (1974–1996)
Type
Subsidiary
Industry
Sports management
Founded
1974 (1974)
Founder
Ed Snider
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Key people
TBA (Chairman)
Fred Shabel (Vice Chairman)
Dave Scott,(President) [1]
Gary Rostick, (CFO)[1][2]
Parent
Comcast (1996–present)
Subsidiaries
Spectra
Wells Fargo Center
Flyers Skate Zone
Philadelphia Flyers
Portland ECHL team
Website
Comcast Spectacor
Comcast Sports Ventures, doing business as Comcast Spectacor, is a Philadelphia-based American sports and entertainment company. It owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the upcoming Portland ECHL team of the ECHL, the upcoming Philadelphia team of the National Lacrosse League, the upcoming Philadelphia team of the Overwatch League, and formerly owned the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. The company owns and manages the Wells Fargo Center and formerly managed the Spectrum in South Philadelphia (before that arena was demolished), plus several community skating rinks in the Philadelphia region known as Flyers Skate Zone. The Comcast SportsNet (CSN) regional sports networks were also owned by Comcast Spectacor prior to parent company Comcast's acquisition of a majority stake in NBCUniversal in January 2011; CSN is now operated through NBC Sports.
The company was formed in 1974 by Flyers founder and chairman Ed Snider as Spectacor, the parent company of both the Flyers and the Spectrum. Snider had been instrumental in getting the Spectrum built in 1967, and assumed control of the arena in 1971. He sold a 63% stake in Spectacor to Comcast in 1996, but remained as chairman of the renamed Comcast Spectacor. Shortly afterward, Comcast Spectacor bought the 76ers; as the Spectrum's owner, Snider had been the Sixers' landlord since 1971. Comcast Spectacor sold the 76ers to Joshua Harris in 2011. In April 2016 Ed Snider died at his home in California. On September 22, 2016, Comcast announced that it will buy out the remaining 24% it does not own.[3]
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1 Spectra Experiences
2 Other businesses
3 References
4 External links
Spectra Experiences[edit]
Comcast Spectacor is the principal owner of Spectra (formerly Global Spectrum, Ovations and Paciolan). Globally, Spectra serves 300-plus clients at more than 400 properties including public assembly facilities throughout the United States and Canada, such as arenas, civic and convention centers, stadiums, university convocation center, trade and exposition centers, community ice rinks and theaters. Some of the arenas and stadiums currently managed by Spectra are:
Atlantic City Convention Center and Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey[4]
Augusta Entertainment Complex in Augusta, Georgia
AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee; currently managing team marketing and stadium operations until the Memphis Redbirds Foundation can find a buyer for the team and ballpark.
Watsco Center at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida
Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario, Canada
Chaifetz Arena at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri
Cleveland State University Wolstein Center, in Cleveland, Ohio
Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine
Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, Maine
Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio
The Fargodome, located in Fargo, North Dakota
Tribute Communities Centre in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, New York
Las Cruces Convention Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico
Liacouras Center at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lowell Memorial Auditorium, located in Lowell, Massachusetts
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California
The Ohio State University Value City Arena, in Columbus, Ohio
Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas
PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb
Sioux Falls Convention Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
South Okanagan Events Centre Home of the Penticton Vee's in Penticton, British Columbia
Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas
St. Charles Convention Center in Saint Charles, Missouri
Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey
CFE Arena at The University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida
University of Massachusetts Amherst William D. Mullins Memorial Center, located in Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Lowell Tsongas Center, located in Lowell, Massachusetts
University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona
Wells Fargo Arena (Des Moines) which is part of Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa
Wells Fargo Center is in Spectra's corporate hometown of Philadelphia. The Wells Fargo Center's predecessor, The Spectrum, is the namesake of the company.
WFCU Centre in Windsor, Ontario.
Xfinity Arena in Everett, Washington.
XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Spectra is composed of three divisions: Venue Management (formerly Global Spectrum), Food Services & Hospitality (formerly Ovations Food Services), and Ticketing & Fan Engagement (formerly Paciolan).
On June 12, 2017, Learfield, acquired Spectra's Ticketing & Fan Engagement division - formerly known as Paciolan - from Comcast Spectacor.[5]
Other businesses[edit]
Comcast Spectacor owns Ovations Food Services, which provides food and beverage services to arenas, stadiums, amphitheaters, fairgrounds and convention centers throughout the United States. The roots of the name Ovations go back to a restaurant in the Spectrum, which was located below the concourse.
New Era Tickets is the full-service ticketing subsidiary of Comcast Spectacor, and provides in-house ticketing in the US and Canada. In Philadelphia, the company operates under the name ComcastTIX and provides tickets to events at Wells Fargo Center, Liacouras Center at Temple University, Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey, and the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Luukko resigns as president of Comcast-Spectacor - Philly.com".
Jump up ^ "Comcast-Spectacor President Luukko Resigns - ABC News".
Jump up ^ http://corporate.comcast.com/news-information/news-feed/comcast-corporation-to-acquire-ed-sniders-stake-in-comcast-spectacor
Jump up ^ "CRDA Awards Convention Center and Boardwalk Hall Facilities Management to Global Spectrum". Global Spectrum. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
Jump up ^ "Learfield to Acquire Spectra's Ticketing & Fan Engagement Division from Comcast Spectacor".
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Drinking the Kool-Aid
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"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is an expression commonly used in the United States that refers to a person who believes in a possibly doomed or dangerous idea because of perceived potential high rewards. The phrase often carries a negative connotation. It can also be used ironically or humorously to refer to accepting an idea or changing a preference due to popularity, peer pressure, or persuasion. In recent years it has evolved further to mean extreme dedication to a cause or purpose, so extreme that one would "Drink the Kool-Aid" and die for the cause.[citation needed]
The phrase derives from the November 1978 Jonestown deaths[1] in which over 900 members of the Peoples Temple died by drinking a powdered drink mix laced with cyanide. Most voluntarily committed suicide while the rest were killed by forced ingestion of the poison.[2] The powdered drink mix used might not have been Kool-Aid but could have been the competing brand Flavor Aid. However this is disputed as the commune had both among thier supplies. [3]
Contents
1 Background
2 Use
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Background[edit]
Main article: Jonestown § Deaths in Jonestown
On November 18, 1978, Jones ordered that the members of Representative Leo Ryan's party be killed after several defectors chose to leave with the party. Residents of the commune later committed suicide by drinking a flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide, some were forced to drink it, some (such as small children) drank it unknowingly.[4] Roughly 918 people died.
Descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[5] a less-expensive product reportedly found at the site.[6] Kraft Foods, the maker of Kool-Aid, has stated the same.[7] Implied by this accounting of events is that the reference to the Kool-Aid brand owes exclusively to its being better-known among Americans. Others are less categorical.[5] Both brands are known to have been among the commune's supplies: Film footage shot inside the compound prior to the events of November shows Jones opening a large chest in which boxes of both Flavor Aid and Kool-Aid are visible.[8] Criminal investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding packets of "cool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the incident are also recorded as speaking of "cool aid" or "Cool Aid."[9] It is unclear whether they intended to refer to the actual Kool-Aid–brand drink or were using the name in a generic sense that might refer to any powdered flavored beverage.
Given that both were available and are functionally very similar, it is hard to distinguish whether just one or both brands were used. The group had engaged in many "dry runs" using unpoisoned drink.[10]
Use[edit]
In December 1978, Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin told a convention of the American unit of Pax Christi that American planning for nuclear war and preparations for civil defense was "the Kool-Aid drill without the cyanide."[11]
According to academician Rebecca Moore, early analogies to Jonestown and Kool-Aid were based around death and suicide, not blind obedience.[12] The earliest such example she found, via a Lexis-Nexis search, was a 1982 statement from Lane Kirkland, then head of the AFL-CIO, which described Ronald Reagan's policies as "Jonestown economics," which "administers Kool-Aid to the poor, the deprived and the unemployed."[12]
In 1984, a Reagan administration appointee, Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, was quoted as criticizing civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson, Vernon Jordan Jr., and Benjamin Hooks by making an analogy between allegiance to "the black leadership" and blind obedience to the Jonestown leaders: "We refuse to be led into another political Jonestown as we were led during the Presidential campaign. No more Kool-Aid, Jesse, Vernon and Ben. We want to be free."[13]
In 1989, Jack Solerwitz, a lawyer for many of the air traffic controllers who lost their jobs in the 1981 PATCO strike, explained his dedication to their cause in spite of the substantial personal financial losses he incurred by saying: "I was the only lawyer who kept the doors open for them, and I thought I'd get a medal for it... Instead, I was the one who drank the Kool-Aid."[14]
The widespread use of the phrase with its current meaning may have begun in the late 1990s. In some cases it began to take on a neutral or even positive light, implying simply great enthusiasm. In 1998, the dictionary website logophilia.com defined the phrase thus: "To become a firm believer in something; to accept an argument or philosophy whole-heartedly."[12]
The phrase has been used in the business and technology worlds to mean fervent devotion to a certain company or technology. A 2000 The New York Times article about the end of the dot-com bubble noted, "The saying around San Francisco Web shops these days, as companies run out of money, is 'Just keep drinking the Kool-Aid,' a tasteless reference to the Jonestown massacre."[15]
The phrase or metaphor has also often been used in a political context, usually with a negative implication. In 2002, Arianna Huffington used the phrase "pass the Kool-Aid, pardner" in a column about an economic forum hosted by President George W. Bush.[16] Later, commentators Michelangelo Signorile and Bill O'Reilly have used the term to describe those whom they perceive as following certain ideologies blindly.[17] In a 2009 speech, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham stressed his political independence by saying, "I did not drink the Obama Kool-Aid last year."[18]
In 2011, columnist Meghan Daum wrote that the phrase had become "one of the nation's most popular idiomatic trends," while bemoaning its rise in popularity, calling its usage "grotesque, even offensive." She cited, among others, usages by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who said that he "drank the Kool-Aid as much as anyone else about Obama," and Us Weekly magazine, which reported during the short marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries that "Kris is not drinking the Kardashian Kool-Aid."[19]
In February 2012, "Drinking the Kool-Aid" won first place in an online poll by Forbes Magazine as "the single most annoying example of business jargon."[20]
See also[edit]
Irrationality
Skepticism
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Higgins, Chris (8 November 2012). "Stop Saying 'Drink the Kool-Aid'". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
"'Jonestown': Portrait of a Disturbed Cult Leader". Day to Day. October 20, 2006. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
Paul McFedries (1998-10-27). "Wordspy article on the expression "Drink the Kool-Aid," October 27, 1998". Logophilia Limited, www.wordspy.com. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
Jump up ^ Hall, John R. (1987). Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History. Transaction Publishers. p. 282. ISBN 9780887388019.
Jump up ^ "Cult's survivors sought in jungle". The Ledger. Lakeland, Florida. November 21, 1978. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
Holden, Stephen. "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
^ Jump up to: a b Eric Zorn (2008-11-18). "Change of Subject, "Have you drunk the 'Kool Aid' Kool Aid". Chicago Tribune, www.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
Jump up ^ Krause, Charles A. (Dec 17, 1978). "Jonestown Is an Eerie Ghost Town Now". Washington Post. Along the muddy path that served as a sidewalk for much of the commune, other reminders of the life and death that were Jonestown lie half buried in the fertile soil. A pair of woman's eyeglasses, a towel, a pair of shorts, packets of unopened Flavor-Aid lie scattered about waiting for the final cleanup that may one day return Jonestown to the tidy, if overcrowded, little community it once was.
Jump up ^ * Kihn, Martin (2007-12-19). "Don't Drink the Grape-Flavored Sugar Water..." Fast Company. Archived from the original on 7 April 2005. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
Al Thomkins (2003-11-13). "Al's Morning Meeting, "Thursday Edition: Clearing Kool-Aid's Name"". The Poynter Institute. Archived from the original on 4 December 2003. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
Jump up ^ Nelson, Stanley (2006). Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (DVD). Hollywood, California: PBS Home Video.
Jump up ^ "Guyana inquest" (PDF).
Jump up ^ Hatfield, Larry D. (8 November 1998). "Utopian nightmare. Jonestown: What did we learn?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
Jump up ^ Hyer, Marjorie. Pax Christi Group Opposes SALT II. 9 December 1978. Washington Post.
^ Jump up to: a b c Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Cultural Transformation of a Tragedy, Rebecca Moore, American Academy of Religion/ Western Region, St. Mary’s College of California, 26 March 2002
Jump up ^ "Criticism of Black Leaders". The New York Times. November 20, 1984. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Margolick, David (January 20, 1989). "LAW: AT THE BAR; Lawyer for striking air traffic controllers won back 60 jobs but suffered personal loss". The New York Times. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Fishburne, Rodes (April 29, 2000). "The Shadow in Silicon Valley". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ Arianna Huffington (August 16, 2002). "Wacko in Waco". Salon.com. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Feeling Sorry for O'Reilly". Fox News. 2005-09-09. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
Jump up ^ Finch, Jake (April 1, 2009). "Newsweek editor addresses Reagan Forum". Ventura County Star.
Jump up ^ Daum, Meghan (November 17, 2011). "Don't 'drink the Kool-Aid'". Los Angeles Times.
Jump up ^ Jargon Madness, Forbes, January 25, 2012.
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Look up drink the Kool-Aid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Richardson, James D. (November 18, 2014). "The phrase 'drank the Kool-Aid' is completely offensive. We should stop saying it immediately". PostEverything. The Washington Post. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
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I'm Already There
Studio album by Lonestar
Released
June 19, 2001 (2001-06-19)
Genre
Country, Country pop, adult contemporary
Length
45:32
Label
BNA
Producer
Dann Huff
Lonestar chronology
This Christmas Time
(2000)This Christmas Time2000 I'm Already There
(2001) From There to Here: Greatest Hits
(2003)From There to Here: Greatest Hits2003
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I'm Already There is the fourth studio album released by American country music band Lonestar. Released in 2001 on BNA Records (see 2001 in country music), the album was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies.
Serving as singles from this album were the title track (which spent six weeks at Number One on the Hot Country Songs charts) "Not a Day Goes By" (#3 on Hot Country Songs), "With Me" (#10), and "Unusually Unusual" (#12).
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2 Personnel
2.1 Lonestar
2.2 Additional musicians
3 Chart performance
4 References
Track listing[edit]
"Out Go the Lights" (Brett Beavers, Steve Bogard, Richie McDonald) – 3:56
"Unusually Unusual" (Mark McGuinn) – 3:36
"Not a Day Goes By" (Maribeth Derry, Steve Diamond) – 4:08
"I Want to Be the One" (Chuck Cannon, Gary Nicholson, Lari White) – 3:56
"With Me" (Brett James, Troy Verges) – 3:53
"Without You" (Anthony Smith, Bobby Terry) – 4:13
"I'm Already There" (Gary Baker, Frank J. Myers, McDonald) – 4:13
"Let's Bring It Back" (Annie Roboff, Jeffrey Steele) – 3:09
"Must Be Love" (Greg Barnhill, Jon McElroy) – 3:14
"Softly" (Holly Lamar, Roboff) – 4:06
"Every Little Thing She Does" (Al Anderson, Bob DiPiero, Steele) – 3:13
"Like a Good Cowboy" (Barnhill, Lamar) – 3:55
"No Greater Love" (Cannon, Stephen Allen Davis) – 3:40A
ABonus track, available only on Australian releases of album.
Personnel[edit]
Lonestar[edit]
Michael Britt - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Richie McDonald - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Keech Rainwater - banjo, drums, percussion
Dean Sams - background vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, harmonica
Additional musicians[edit]
Tim Akers - accordion, keyboards
Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
Robbie Cheuvront - background vocals
Eric Darken - percussion
Larry Franklin - fiddle
Paul Franklin - steel guitar, dobro
Aubrey Haynie - fiddle
Dann Huff - electric guitar
Wayne Killius - drum programming
Paul Leim - drums
B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
Chris McHugh - drums
Jerry McPherson - electric guitar
Matt Rollings - B3 organ, piano, keyboards
Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
Jonathan Yudkin - fiddle, cello, mandolin
Strings arranged and conducted by Ronn Huff. Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine.
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Chart (2001)
Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 9
References[edit]
Jump up ^ About.com review
Jump up ^ Allmusic review
Jump up ^ Country Weekly review
Jump up ^ Entertainment Weekly review
Jump up ^ "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on November 1, 2007. Retrieved 2009-06-02. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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July 14–20, 2001 Succeeded by
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The OA
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This article is about the television series. For the region in Scotland, see The Oa. For other uses of the letters OA, see OA (disambiguation).
The OA
Netflix release poster
Genre
Mystery
Drama
Science fiction
Supernatural
Fantasy
Created by
Brit Marling
Zal Batmanglij
Directed by
Zal Batmanglij
Starring
Brit Marling
Emory Cohen
Scott Wilson
Phyllis Smith
Alice Krige
Patrick Gibson
Brendan Meyer
Brandon Perea
Ian Alexander
Jason Isaacs
Paz Vega
Will Brill
Theme music composer
Rostam Batmanglij
Composer(s)
Rostam Batmanglij
Danny Bensi
Saunder Jurriaans
Jay Wadley
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English, Russian
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Brit Marling
Zal Batmanglij
Brad Pitt
Dede Gardner
Jeremy Kleiner
Sarah Esberg
Michael Sugar
Alison Engel
Blair Fetter
Nina Wolarsky
Producer(s)
Jill Footlick
Ashley Zalta
Location(s)
New York City[1]
Orange County, New York[2][3]
Groton, Connecticut[4]
Cinematography
Lol Crawley
Editor(s)
Jonathan Alberts
Geraud Brisson
Matthew Hannam
Lisa Lassek
Running time
31–71 minutes
Production company(s)
Plan B Entertainment
Anonymous Content
Distributor
Netflix
Release
Original network
Netflix
Picture format
4K (Ultra HD)
Audio format
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 with Descriptive Video Service track
Original release
December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16) – present
External links
www.netflix.com/theoa
The OA is an American mystery drama Netflix series with science fiction, supernatural, and fantasy elements,[5][6] which debuted on Netflix on December 16, 2016.[7][8] Created and executive produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the series is their third collaboration.[7][8] The series consists of eight episodes, all directed by Batmanglij, and is produced by Plan B Entertainment and Anonymous Content.[9] In the series, Marling stars as a young woman named Prairie Johnson who resurfaces after having been missing for seven years. Prairie now calls herself "The OA" and can see, despite having been blind before her disappearance.
The OA received generally favorable critical reception. The series' directing, visuals and acting were often singled out. Reviews also ranged from highly positive to negative, with several reviewers drawing both favorable and unfavorable comparisons with Stranger Things, another science fiction series that debuted on Netflix earlier in the year.
On February 8, 2017, Netflix renewed the series for a second season, dubbed "Part II."[10]
Contents
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1 Premise
2 Cast
2.1 Main
2.2 Guest
3 Production
4 Episodes
4.1 Season 1 (2016)
5 Reception
5.1 Accolades
6 References
7 External links
Premise[edit]
The series centers on Prairie Johnson, an adopted young woman who resurfaces after having been missing for seven years. Upon her return, Johnson calls herself "The OA", exhibits scars on her back, and can see, despite having been blind when she disappeared. The OA refuses to tell the FBI and her adoptive parents where she has been and how her eyesight was restored, and instead quickly assembles a team of five locals (mostly high school students) to whom she reveals that information, also explaining her life story. Finally, she asks for their help to save the other missing people who she claims she can rescue by opening a portal to another dimension.[11]
Cast[edit]
The following actors appear in the show:[12][13]
Main[edit]
Brit Marling as Prairie Johnson / The OA
Emory Cohen as Homer Roberts[14]
Scott Wilson as Abel Johnson, Prairie's adoptive father
Phyllis Smith as Elizabeth "Betty" Broderick-Allen[15]
Alice Krige as Nancy Johnson, Prairie's adoptive mother
Patrick Gibson as Steve Winchell[16]
Brendan Meyer as Jesse
Brandon Perea as Alfonso "French" Sosa
Ian Alexander as Buck Vu[17]
Jason Isaacs as Dr. Hunter Aloysius "Hap" Percy[18]
Guest[edit]
Hiam Abbass as Khatun
Zoey Todorovsky as Nina Azarova, a young Prairie Johnson
Marcus Choi as Mr. Vu
Robert Eli as Principal Gilchrist
Nikolai Nikolaeff as Roman Azarov, Nina's father
Will Brill as Scott Brown
Zachary Gemino as Carlos Sosa, Alfonso's brother
Sharon Van Etten as Rachel[19]
Riz Ahmed as FBI Psychologist Elias Rahim
Paz Vega as Renata
Robert Morgan as Sheriff Stan Markham
Michael Cumpsty as Dr. Leon Citro
Production[edit]
The series was conceived by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij and they began working on the concept in December 2012.[20][21] They spent two years working on The OA on their own,[22] before pitching to studios.[23] From the early stages of development onward, they were telling the story out loud and noting one another's reactions to the story to refine it accordingly.[24] They found it difficult to summarize the show in a written story, so they developed it aurally. When executives read the script of the first hour, they asked if the story "really [went] somewhere". Marling and Batmanglij then began to tell the story from beginning to end,[24] playing all the characters and acting out the big moments through many hours.[25] They worked with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, which connected with the story and shared helpful notes before it went to networks and studios .[22] Following a multiple-network bidding war, the series was first revealed on March 5, 2015, as Netflix ordered eight one-hour long episodes with Plan B and Anonymous Content also on board. The announcement revealed that Marling would star, Batmanglij would direct, and both would write and executive produce. Marling and Batmanglij held similar positions in their previous two collaborations, Sound of My Voice and The East.[26]
Rostam Batmanglij, Zal's brother, worked as one of the composers on the series, and he also wrote its theme music.[27] He previously composed for both Sound of My Voice and The East. Choreographer Ryan Heffington created The Movements. Heffington first professionally worked with them on The East, and had been an acquaintance of both from earlier than that.[28]
The final episode includes a dedication to Allison Wilke. Wilke, also known professionally as A.W. Gryphon, was a producer on the show who died of breast cancer a month before its release and three days after the show was finished.[29]
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2016)[edit]
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Title
Directed by
Written by
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"Homecoming" Zal Batmanglij Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
After disappearing seven years ago, a now old Prairie Johnson returns to her parents, Nancy and Abel. Prairie disappeared blind, but now she can see, and insists that her name is "The OA". She does not reveal how she regained her eyesight, nor where she has been for the past seven years, although she makes vague allusions to being held hostage with others. OA tells Steve, a neighborhood bully, that she will save him from being sent to boot camp in Asheville, if he presents her with four other strong people. That night, OA meets Steve in an abandoned house with three other boys from his school, "French", Buck, and Jesse, along with their teacher, Betty Broderick-Allen ("BBA"). She tells them that she was born in Russia as Nina Azarov, the daughter of a powerful oligarch. One day, following a premonition she had, the mafia knocked the bus of the oligarch's children into a river. Nina died and had an NDE where a woman named Khatun gave her the choice of returning to life. Nina came back blind after Khatun told her she would take her sight to protect her from the horrible things lying ahead.
2
"New Colossus" Zal Batmanglij Melanie Marnich December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
Continuing her story, OA says that her father sent her to a boarding school for blind children in America to protect her. However, her father died, and she was sent to live with her aunt who ran an illegal adoption service. Nancy and Abel adopted her and named her Prairie. For the next several years, Prairie had dreams and premonitions, for which her parents medicated her. In them, her father waited for her by the Statue of Liberty. She ran away on her 21st birthday to see him, but he did not appear. Instead, she met a scientist named "Hap". She ends her story for the night, and the boys begin to investigate whether she is telling the truth. French considers not going again when he gets a scholarship and wishes to focus on that, but Buck convinces him to come. The next night, she tells them that Hap was studying people that had NDEs, like she did. Prairie agreed to let Hap study her and flew on his private plane to his house, where he trapped her in a glass cage in his basement, with the other test subjects he had tricked over the years.
3
"Champion" Zal Batmanglij Brit Marling & Dominic Orlando December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
Prairie gets to know Homer, Scott and Rachel, the other three captives. Homer was an athlete who was taken a year before OA. Hap eventually begins letting her out of her cage to help around the house, as he is soft on her and trusts she can't escape because of her blindness. He regularly pumps gas to their cages as part of an experiment, but the four cannot figure what that is, as the gas makes them pass out. After the story, the boys and BBA deal with their own situations, such as the death of BBA's twin brother, Theo. BBA also defends Steve from being sent to Asheville, convincing his parents to put him in special education instead. In OA's story, Hap is dying from food allergy but he convinces Prairie to save him, as without the passcode to the cages the others will starve to death. In the process of getting him an EpiPen, she discovers the dead body of another girl he had kidnapped earlier, "August". She later pushes him down the staircase of the basement, and escapes the house. She makes it to a cliff, but Hap hits her in the head knocking her unconscious.
4
"Away" Zal Batmanglij Ruby Rae Spiegel December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
Prairie meets Khatun in NDE. She is offered the choice of reuniting with her father but she chooses to return to help the others. Khatun, who shows she has a bird wing, offers Prairie to swallow a bird which will show her a way of traveling unknown to humans. She tells Prairie that five of them must work together to avert a great evil and that Prairie is "the original". Hap returns Prairie to her cage and she tells the others that she can see, they are all angels, and their way out is by figuring Hap's experiment. In the present, BBA learns Theo left her $50,000 in his will. OA meets an FBI counselor, Elias, who suggests to her she focuses on healing herself. In her story, Prairie and Rachel decide to suck Hap's scopolamine-like gas, so that Homer experiences the experiment awake. Hap is revealed to be drowning them in water and recording the soundscape of their NDEs. It takes Homer four years, but he experiences an NDE awake, in which he manages to swallow a sea anemone. Prairie contemplates she has a truer self who answers to something sounding like "Away" or "Oh-A".
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"Paradise" Zal Batmanglij Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
OA (having abandoned the name Prairie) and Homer perform the two movements they got from their NDEs. Hap forces Homer to seduce an NDE survivor in Cuba named Renata, to kidnap her. Homer ends up sleeping with her, which destroys the morale of the team and hurts OA. With Renata now locked back at Hap's, it's Scott's turn for the experiment. Scott begs Hap to spare him as he is too sick to survive another NDE and reveals OA can see, and her ideas about angels and how to escape. Hap proceeds with the experiment and Scott dies. Hap takes his body back to his cage, telling OA it's her fault. OA and Homer do their movements for hours, while facing each other with Scott in the middle. Unexpectedly, Scott returns to life and tells them they were right; if at least five people perform the movements, a door to another dimension opens. He has been given the third of five. Hap runs downstairs in shock that Scott is alive. In present day, OA tells the others the reason she gathered them is to teach them the movements so that she may travel to another dimension and rescue the others.
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"Forking Paths" Zal Batmanglij Melanie Marnich December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
In the following three years Renata gets the fourth movement, OA and Homer scar themselves with depictions of them, so that they don't forget them, and Hap is watching closely and learning their movements as well. Hap visits his former mentor, Leon, in a morgue, in which Leon also runs similar experiments. Leon tells Hap he is very close to proving the existence of afterlife, but Hap tells him he actually believes there are multiple dimensions, and his subjects have the means to make traveling between them possible. He also thinks he knows where their NDEs take place, and he intends to go see it with his own eyes. Leon pulls a gun on Hap demanding he reveals his breakthroughs. They fight and Hap kills him. Hap leaves the hospital and informs the staff to call the police to rescue Leon's subjects. Later, he asks OA to leave with him, make money using the first two healing movements, and run experiments on their own, but she turns him down. He reveals to her he thinks her NDEs take her to the rings of Saturn. A sheriff pays Hap a visit and discovers the hostages. He aims his gun at Hap.
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"Empire of Light" Zal Batmanglij Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij December 16, 2016 (2016-12-16)
OA has a premonition of a big space with a metallic sound, but she can't tell what it means. She discusses it with Elias, who suggest that her "psychic" capability might be the result of being able to notice even the smallest cues around her. He also tells her to just accept whatever happens. Steve is being shipped to Asheville but BBA uses her cheque to bribe the drivers to let him go. OA has dinner with her parents, when Nancy gets upset that she knows nothing about what happened to her daughter. OA explains that she scarred herself with the notations of the movements that open another dimension and she knows all this because she's "the Original Angel", which causes Nancy to slap her. French suggests to OA to forgive Nancy and Abel and consider them as her parents and one of the reasons she came back from her NDEs. Steve accuses OA for using him and the rest just so that she gets back to Homer and stabs her with a pencil. She embraces him and calms him down. He asks her how she survived all those years and she replies she did because she wasn't alone.
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Hap convinces the sheriff that OA and Homer can cure his dying wife. Once healed, the sheriff's wife reveals she is an NDE survivor that can give them the fifth movement. Upon doing so, Hap kills her and her husband. He dumps OA on the side of the road, telling her he will jump dimensions with the others. In the present, OA tells a simplified version of her story to her parents. Nancy reveals to Abel she knew OA had left on her own. French breaks into OA's house and discovers some books that relate to OA's story (e.g. Homer's Iliad). He stumbles upon Elias and tells him OA's stories were lies, but Elias responds that what matters is that French was there for her. French shares the revelation with the others. After several weeks, the boys have returned to their previous lives, disconnected. One day, a shooter approaches the school cafeteria. Meanwhile OA realizes what her premonition means and runs towards the school. The boys fearing for their lives desperately decide to enact OA's five movements in front of the shooter. The shooter is confused by this action and somebody subdues him. A stray bullet hits OA at the cafeteria window where she had been watching from outside. As she's transported to an ambulance OA tells the boys that their actions worked and that she can feel herself going to another dimension. Steve chases after the ambulance yelling for OA to take him with her. The scene cuts to black, then to OA looking into the camera, and then black again, as she says "Homer?".
Reception[edit]
The OA has received generally favorable critical reception. Rotten Tomatoes assigned the series a 75% critical approval rating and an average rating of 7.52/10 based on 41 reviews, writing that "The OA is more than OK."[30] Metacritic, based on 17 reviews, assigned the series a rating of 61 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[31] Most reviewers acknowledged the series' ambition and praised its mystery and direction. Reviewers made both favorable[5][32][33][34] and unfavorable[35][36][37] comparisons to another Netflix Original, Stranger Things.
John Doyle of The Globe and Mail writes, "The OA is Netflix's strongest and strangest original production since Stranger Things. In terms of substantive, original drama, it transcends it. Mind you, it is unclassifiable in the context of drama, mystery, science-fiction and fantasy, since it is straddling all sorts of lines and blurring them. It is outright astounding and brilliant, too."[5] Tim Surette at TV Guide said that "the final moments of Episode 5 – probably the best episode of the first season – was some of the most reaffirming television I've ever seen, not just for the show but for life itself. I've never really had this kind of a relationship with a series while watching it, but it's that experience that makes it well worth viewing."[38] New York Magazine headlined its glowing review, "Netflix's The OA Is an Extraordinary, Binge-Worthy December Surprise." [39]
Tristram Fane Saunders of The Daily Telegraph gave a mixed review of 3 out of 5 stars and noted the series' potential but criticized its similarity to fellow Netflix Original Stranger Things, claiming that the series was attempting to be "stranger than Stranger Things" but "on the basis of the first four episodes, the answer is a resounding no." Saunders's review also highlighted the series' lack of originality and characterization, and derided the dialogue as "portentous [and] self-consciously literary". In addition, it also criticized the slow pace as "glacial". However, Saunders also acknowledged the series told an interesting and compelling story, writing that "The OA may be utter hokum, but you'll still be hooked."[40]
Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter gave a negative review, stating that the series was "a failed, but not wholly worthless, experiment in TV auteurism." Fienberg added "the problem, of course, is that telling you what The OA is vaguely like is just another tease and telling you what it actually is is a recipe for disappointment, because after an enticing and somewhat infuriating build-up, The OA becomes something quite ludicrous as it stumbles toward a climax that is, if I'm generous, merely unearned and if I'm not being generous, a series of offensive overreaches."[41] Sonia Saraiya of Variety also gave a negative review, stating that "it is hard to take The OA seriously", detailing that "none of it makes any sense", while praising the direction and acting.[42]
The extreme reaction to the series is best exemplified within the pages of Variety itself where, following the TV critic's gloomy review, a chief film critic for the trade wrote a glowing piece with the headline "Why The OA is One of the Year's Most Important Films".[43]
Accolades[edit]
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2017 GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Drama Series The OA Nominated [44]
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