The Over Analysis of Netflix' The OA

Many apologies that this is not a podcast to say that series 3 of The OA has been commissioned… but instead to say that we have just released the first episode of a new podcast called Reinfected...

Ethan and Talia discuss the reasons for the unfortunate cancellation of Part 3 of The OA, along with some fan theories about what storyline the season might have followed. Plus news of Ethan and Talia...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 8: Overview. Including: the power of dirty jokes to help unearth a submerged dual personality; how no character in this series has learnt a thing about leaving ...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 7: Nina Azarova. Including: Talia's interminable complaints about the depiction of onscreen births; Hap's weird methodology for recording information with earwo...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 6: Mirror, Mirror. Including: the commitment problem of boyfriends who seem happy to jump to other dimension to help other women; how many people are needed for...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 5: The Medium and the Engineer. Including: how Ethan and Talia are such scaredey cats they can't cope with any horror film tropes whatsoever; Hap's just-in-case...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 4: Syzygy. Including: delight in the detached attitude of lighting engineers watching an almost certainly illegal octopus bondage show; tips for how to split th...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 3: Magic Mirror. Including: The total failure of our predictions for the next episode from last week; the influence of female genitalia on church architecture; ...

Ethan and Talia discuss Part 2, Episode 2: Treasure Island. Including: whether there really is a replica of Big Ben in San Francisco; how Hap's narcissistic rants are playing havoc with his security p...

Ethan and Talia discuss the first episode of Part 2: Angel of Death. Including: the ethics of dimension jumping; the seeming limitations of consent in the US healthcare system; and whether running you...

Ethan and Talia discuss the upcoming season 2 of The OA (a little bit too soon just before it starts to be honest). Will season 2 live up to the quality of season 1? Will all the characters from the f...

Including: inadvertent spoilers to not only other film and TV programmes, but now also books; how Ethan can't remember any of reading The Iliad at school; and moments of epiphany where we connect the ...

Including: tiny spoilers for another series entirely (that of Breaking Bad); and Talia appears obsessed about a minor character's line about looking good naked. The post <div class="theoa"...

Including: imagining how evil scientists meet at conferences in the Swiss mountains; the mishearing of lines about dead vegetables; and as good liberals our struggle with the correct use of pronouns w...

Including: astonishing resuscitation techniques just using interpretative dance; and wondering if the writers influences regarding near-death experiences include Timothy Leary. The post <div class=...

Including: the mechanics of a chick teleportation device; nostalgia for old Radiohead videos; and Ethan finally comes off the fence and decides that Hap is probably not a nice guy... The post <div ...

Including: how you go about constructing a modernist glass dungeon without raising suspicions; Homer's possibly questionable taste in wolf sweatshirts; and whether having a dead girl in your bath is a...

Including: the poignancy of Emma Lazurus' poem; possibly over-zealous psychiatric prescribing practices in the 1990s; and whether the future evil plans of new apparent bad guy Hap are going to involve...

Ethan and Talia discuss the first episode of Season 1 of The OA, 'Homecoming'. Including: the bald confidence needed to place a title sequence an hour into the show; nit-picking about maternal mortali...