Netflix's The Order: 12 Questions That Must Be Answered In Season 2
2. Where Is Belgrave University?
Although perhaps not one of the most urgent questions presented by Season 1, Netflix's The Order never makes its setting explicitly known. This may initially strike viewers as unimportant, but a few seemingly minor details suggest that Belgrave's location could reveal major insights into the world of the show.
In fact, close examination of Jack's acceptance letter reveals that the show could easily expand its mythos to completely rewrite American history. Belgrave lists a phone number with a Boston area code, suitable for what is clearly meant to be a New England setting. The address, however, is another story.
Jack's letter reveals Belgrave to be located in Norwich, AP. Viewers familiar with American geography may recognize this as a non-existent state abbreviation. This abbreviation is only used for Pacific military addresses, which follow a completely different format than the one used here. Either Belgrave is located in a state that doesn't exist, or a New England town that for some reason receives the same state designation as military addresses typically located nowhere near New England.
Perhaps this detail was not meant to signify much at all, but it could nonetheless provide a springboard for exciting new story directions. Have viewers been unwittingly watching a show that takes place in an alternate version of the United States in which the Atlantic coastline has become a Pacific militarized zone?
Probably not, but a more explicit reference to the show's setting in Season 2 could still lead to some interesting backstory on this mysterious "AP" and its place within the United States of our understanding.