The OA
TV Show • 2016 • Mystery
ReportPrairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
This tv show contains 46 potentially triggering events.
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Unanswered Triggers
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PrinceRye
The opening scene of S1E1 is of Prairie jumping off a bridge and can be read as a suicide attempt
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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emHathaway3
S1
E2
SPOILER: A father tried to send his daughter away saying they would see eachother later. He died before they did and the story begins with her attempting to reunite with him. In some ways this may be triggering.
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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rosencrantz
French has a negligent mother. Steve has a bad relationship with his dad, leading them to attempt to send him to a military school. When the school is picking up Steve, they hit him and tackle him so that he submits to them.
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Addiction
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rosencrantz
Shown use is mostly in Part 2 but Steve is selling drugs out of the house at the beginning of Part 1 which he later stops.
SPOILER Hap does use a gas drug to make them compliant but I dunno if that matters.
SPOILER Hap does use a gas drug to make them compliant but I dunno if that matters.
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Is there addiction?
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rosencrantz
It mentions that Scott had an addiction and had to go through withdraw (not seen).
S2 SPOILER Jesse deals with drug addiction, throughout and ends up overdosing, causing his death.
S2 SPOILER Jesse deals with drug addiction, throughout and ends up overdosing, causing his death.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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rosencrantz
French's Mother
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Animal
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groinsaw
Part 2, episode 3. While driving, Steve hits what looks like a possum. It is briefly visible laying in the road and struggling to breathe. Jesse mercy kills it with a rock. The scene is not graphic.
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Are animals abused?
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rosencrantz
I mean OA bites a dog once to get it to stop biting her?
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rosencrantz
But Steve has trained his dog as an attack dog and sics him on OA.
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Is there a dead animal?
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fungits
Animals are 'symbolically' eaten alive
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Are there spiders?
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xihe
In season 1 Homer sees a spider during his NDE
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Are there snakes?
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rosencrantz
S1 Ep2 the children at the blind school have snakes that they hold but nothing bad happens. Just some shots of Nina holding a snake.
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Are there bugs?
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BusyTimmy
There is a scene with moths and explaining why they're attracted to light.
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Assault
Is someone held under water?
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emHathaway3
Yes SPOILER: for torture he puts helmets on their heads and they fill with water drowning them until fufil his wishes
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Is someone restrained?
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mattread
S1
in season 1 unsure what episode, Steve is legally kidnapped into the troubled teen industry, he is restrained by 2 men, he is rescued by BBA shortly after
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clarkekent
There isn’t actual sexual assault, but the protagonist’s kidnapper and abuser does have a “crush” on her that is very uncomfortable and has a constant looming threat of sexual assault.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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BusyTimmy
Steve shaves his head in Part 2.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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fungits
A lot of recurrent drowning
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Does someone have a seizure?
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rosencrantz
No, but the NDEs (near death experiences) and convulsing/spasming leading up to them could be perceived as such.
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Is someone tortured?
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rosencrantz
SPOILER People may argue that it is not torture and that Hap is simply doing a scientific study but that does not change the fact that he forces them to experience NDEs by drowning them over and over again.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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PrinceRye
The OA pushes Hap down the stairs in S1E3 but his fall is not shown
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Does someone fall to their death?
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mattread
S2
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Hap and Rachel are fighting after she discovers what he is doing in a secret room, he pushes her over and she dies of a head injury, she falls from standing to the floor
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Is there eye mutilation?
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rosencrantz
This is difficult to answer because while there is no mutilation, she does (Spoilers) become blind and regain her sight.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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mattread
S1
no abduction but for a while Nina is living in a house used as a brothel and the women sell their babies to people who can't legally adopt, she is then sold to a couple, her new parents are nice but this scene implies they sell many children so its easy to imagine not all of these scenarios are safe for the children
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Does a kid die?
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Jonas
Several young children drown in a school bus
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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FreyaRosheen
The OA's biological parents
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Is someone kidnapped?
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clarkekent
The protagonist is kidnapped and held captive in several flashbacks. And a teenager is kidnapped by adults to be taken to a military school.
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
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rosencrantz
It's not necessarily by something bad but there are elements that can be perceived as a possession.
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Are there ghosts?
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rosencrantz
Not quite ghosts but there are celestial beings and stuff that aren't scary but are weird
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Are there jumpscares?
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fungits
It's not a horror genre, but there are a few jump scares such as someone startling awake after a bad dream, or an attacker coming out of nowhere during a quiet moment
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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fungits
Season1:
-Prairie accidentally drinks the water people have been cleaning up in (soapy) and sputters and coughs it out. Not entirely vomiting, but a character calls it 'vomiting'. There's a big and obvious lead up to it so more than enough time to look away.
Season 2:
-After Hap et al make the jump from the field, Rachel projectile vomits onto the ward floor (sudden)
-After Steve spent the day doing the movements on the beach, he walks into BBA's cousin's home and vomits into the sink (I think, I looked away. There's a long lead up to it)
-Prairie accidentally drinks the water people have been cleaning up in (soapy) and sputters and coughs it out. Not entirely vomiting, but a character calls it 'vomiting'. There's a big and obvious lead up to it so more than enough time to look away.
Season 2:
-After Hap et al make the jump from the field, Rachel projectile vomits onto the ward floor (sudden)
-After Steve spent the day doing the movements on the beach, he walks into BBA's cousin's home and vomits into the sink (I think, I looked away. There's a long lead up to it)
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Does someone spit?
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rosencrantz
It's not consistent or a humorous element but there is some spit and drool.
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Law Enforcement
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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rosencrantz
Quite a bit of the second season takes place at a mental institution.
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Does someone have cancer?
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BusyTimmy
BBA's uncle
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Anonymous
A woman is sedated in a hospital.
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Mental Health
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Anonymousse
In S1 E5 A man bangs his head into a wall in the shower several times, leaving blood on the wall and a bloody mark on his forehead.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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rosencrantz
Not very relevant to the story but BBA is shown browsing the web about Overeaters Anonymous which potentially implies an eating disorder.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there misophonia?
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PrinceRye
There are closeups of Hap eating soup Prairie made and you can hear his slurp and shallows
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SashWhitGrabby
Season 2 Episode 6 "Magic Mirror"- Jesse dies by suicide. The scene isn't graphic, but he is a minor and it is awful for those who have experienced a suicide.
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Noxious
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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rosencrantz
The show includes them to show that BBA is getting made fun of but does not use it in a humorous way, I think.
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rosencrantz
As established in Part1, Buck Vu is a trans man. At one point his parents use his dead name and improper pronouns and later on argue about it.
Part 2 SPOILER OA is in a different dimension and it turns out, in this one the character we know as Buck goes by his deadname and uses she/her. This could be because in this dimension he is not Buck but it could also be that he isn't out. Regardless, watching people misgender him even though they don't know any different caused me to experience negative feelings and some dysphoria so be warned.
Part 2 SPOILER OA is in a different dimension and it turns out, in this one the character we know as Buck goes by his deadname and uses she/her. This could be because in this dimension he is not Buck but it could also be that he isn't out. Regardless, watching people misgender him even though they don't know any different caused me to experience negative feelings and some dysphoria so be warned.
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Is there hate speech?
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rosencrantz
Minimal but still present
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Does an LGBT person die?
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rosencrantz
Most of the characters who die are not clearly stated to be part of that community but
SPOILER Part 2, The bodies of French, a gay man, and Buck Vu, a trans man, are shown and are dead.
SPOILER Part 2, The bodies of French, a gay man, and Buck Vu, a trans man, are shown and are dead.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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MingaLei
An anti-lesbian slur is used by one of the main characters
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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rosencrantz
Part 1 ends on a very bad note.
Part 2 ends on nearly the same note but with a twist of hope.
Part 2 ends on nearly the same note but with a twist of hope.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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rosencrantz
SPOILERS Part 1 Nina's school bus crashed and fell into a body of water.
SPOILERS Part 2 Very minor but Karim purposefully backs into a van with little resulting damage, just to get someone's attention.
SPOILERS Part 2 Very minor but Karim purposefully backs into a van with little resulting damage, just to get someone's attention.
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Violence
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Does someone drown?
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rosencrantz
Drowning is a very persistent theme throughout the show. The characters drown multiple times and it appears very often so you should not watch this if drowning upsets you.
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Is there blood/gore?
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mattread
as well as other stuff there are 2 scenes where a character is shown bleeding from the head, one of them dies (season 2 episode 2) the other is brought back to life
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Is there gun violence?
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rosencrantz
(SPOILER) At the end of season one, there is a school shooter. I mention that specifically because that can be very traumatic.
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