The creepy new Netflix drama to obsess over: The OA, Netflix

Netflix has announced the surprise release of a creepy eight part sci-fi show The OA. Get ready, as it promises to be a sinister drama, darker than the 2016 break-out horror hit, Stranger Things.

It follows the story of blind twenty-something Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling) who returns to the community in which she grew up after seven years missing, with her sight mysteriously restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a danger, but no one knows for sure as Prairie won’t talk to the FBI or her parents about where she's been.

Coming from Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice, The East), who created and wrote the eight chapter drama, and starring Emory Cohen (Brooklyn, The Place Beyond the Pines), Scott Wilson (The Walking Dead, Junebug) and Phyllis Smith (The Office), this is the new big thing. Will it live up to the hype? We won't be sure until Friday evening, but in the meantime we are enjoying their creepy Instagram page.