‘The OA’ Co-Creator on ‘Stranger Things’ Comparisons, Keeping the Show Under Wraps

Netflix surprised audiences Monday when it dropped a trailer for a mysterious new series, which was premiering that very same week, on Friday.

“The OA,” about a blind young woman who returns to her hometown seven years later with her sight restored, seems to be as enigmatic as its marketing campaign.

Since Netflix is such a large platform, I imagine there will be a bunch of people who have never seen anything about it, who will watch it.

Historically, [TV has] been a medium where you create a proof of concept and then the show is greenlit or redlit, depending on how that proof of concept works.

[...] almost all the main characters are almost always in that proof of concept.

Since the trailer dropped, people couldn’t help but notice the mystery and sci-fi elements of the series may have similarities to another recent Netflix hit, “Stranger Things.”