The OA Season 2: 11 Big Questions After The New Trailer

2. How Many Forks Are There, And How Many Will We See Play Out?

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With its use of alternate dimensions, a lot of The OA's narrative is functioning around the idea of different paths or 'forks' that can exist for a person. So in Nina's case, she might not have gotten on the bus that crashed. That would then start a new fork, existing in a dimension running parallel to the other one.

We see Prairie herself looking at this: there's the timeline we know about, where she ends up captive and then in New York, and then there's the what might've been, which sees her going to Paris and college, staying with her father. That is seemingly the course she's on now in the new dimension.

If these two exist, then how many possible forks are there? The bus crash is a defining moment, but if a path is opened up with each NDE, then there'll be many more besides. Are we going to see these in Season 2, or ever, on The OA?

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