The OA Season 2: What Does The Ending Really Mean?

9. Scott's NDE Is Our Dimension

The OA Prairie
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Season 1 was essentially focused on Prairie’s near-death experience (NDE) and what happened whilst she was missing for seven years. She also explains that when she dies, she goes to a cosmic place where she interacts with an Angel called Khatun.

Season 2 was set in Homer’s NDE where he was running around feeling like someone was chasing him and he ate a fish from a five-sided fish tank. This place turns out to be Treasure Island, the clinic where Hap as Dr. Percy works, alongside Homer who is Dr. Roberts.

Season 3 is set in Scott’s NDE. Hap told Scott that he wanted to try an experiment and got him to recall his NDE again. Scott says he was in a warehouse-like place with lots of lights and cameras, and Hap calls Prairie “Brin or something."

Hap eventually adds Scott to his flower garden and eats one of the petals growing out of his ear. This allows Hap to get a glimpse into the dimension from Scott’s NDE, where they turn out to be actors in a television series.

Through this, Hap realised that Scott’s NDE was the perfect place to win back Prairie and keep her close. This is because in that dimension, they are married and he can convince her that she's actually Brit Marling and none of this is real.

The OA is supposed to have five parts. As there are five people that Hap captured in Season 1 (Prairie, Homer, Scott, Rachel and Renata), it seems likely that the last two seasons/parts will be set in the dimensions from Rachel and Renata’s NDEs, especially as they’re still left unexplored.

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