Weeks after Netflix canceled The OA, fans of the sci-fi series are still refusing to accept their beloved show’s demise and are clamoring for the network to keep it alive.
Conspiracy theories claim that the show was not really canceled and a surprise third season is coming. One fan has even embarked on a hunger strike in front of Netflix offices demanding the show’s renewal.
Show creator Brit Marling is now trying to appease the crowd. In an essay she posted Saturday on her Instagram account, Marling thanked fans but dispelled any notion about the show’s continuation.
“Your words and images move us deeply. Not because the show must continue, but because for some people its unexpected cancellation begs larger questions about the role of storytelling and its fate inside late capitalism’s push toward consolidation and economies of scale,” she wrote.
Marling, along with the co-creator Zal Batmanglij, also visited the fan who went on a hunger strike and offered her water and food.
“As we were leaving she said ‘you know, what I’m really protesting is late capitalism,’” Marling wrote. “And then she said something that I haven’t been able to forget since: ‘Algorithms aren’t as smart as we are. They cannot account for love.’”
