The OA Season 2: 12 Huge Questions That Must Be Answered 

4. What Was Real?

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This is really the question everything else hinges on: was Prairie merely telling a story, or did all of this stuff actually happen? Or, if not as clear cut as that, are there elements of truth (her being held captive) mixed in with more fantastical elements (the movements, alternate dimensions)?

For every bit of evidence against Prairie's story being real, there's something to support it. But the books... but the FBI likely planted them. But there's no evidence... but there is that of the bridge accidents, and her regaining her sight.

Is anything Prairie told us real? Is it all a lie? A mix? Are we even supposed to know, and will the show ever really explain it?

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