Everyone knows Taylor Swift is the Queen of the Easter Egg. Actually, she instructed Zane Lowe she hid over 100 of them in her most up-to-date music video, ‘The Destiny of Ophelia’.
So what precisely is it, you might ask, that ties this unequalled pop-star to Netflix’s most lamented cancellation of all time? Braille.
Throughout Swift’s latest look on fiancé Travis Kelce’s podcast, “New Heights”, she defined the artwork of the Easter Egg to his brother Jason, saying:
I would like Easter Eggs to be a sure factor like the place in case you are part of the fandom and also you need to expertise music in a standard manner, then you definately don’t even see these. You don’t even care what that factor is above that doorway in below that dimly lit flickering gentle over there that’s the wrong way up backwards in braille. You don’t have to know what that’s.
Now, whereas die-hard Swifties have tracked down this was a reference to a part of the Eras Tour set that spelled out the message, T-A-Y, there’s one specific TV present that drove us all insane with Easter Eggs of the braille selection first, and that was The OA.
The brainchild of co-creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, gave us the story of unreliable narrator Prairie Johnson alias the OA aka Nina Azarova, a lady who purports to be the orphan of a Russian oligarch, who was adopted by a midwestern couple, after which kidnapped and held hostage in an evil geniuses underground lair as he repeatedly “killed” and resuscitated his hostages to try to report what “occurs” and “the place we go” after loss of life.
This outlandish story is instructed upon Prairie’s return to her Michigan hometown, Crestwood, the place she recruits a gaggle of misfit teenagers (and their instructor) to aide her in a quest to avoid wasting the remaining hostages she needed to go away behind. Oh, and he or she returns from her captivity in a position to see, after residing many years in blindness.
Throughout a few of Prairies “close to loss of life experiences” she has visions of a lady named Khatun, whose face is roofed in braille messages that had followers flocking to Reddit to decode collectively.
There was additionally a scene within the workplace of an FBI agent, who was supposedly making an attempt to assist Prairie cope psychologically after her time in captivity, the place followers noticed one other braille message displayed utilizing what look like thumbtacks. This message spelled out the title of one among Prairie’s associates, “Rachel”.
By the top of the primary season, there have been so many Easter Eggs dropped alongside the best way to make us query if Prairie is telling the reality or simply mendacity, together with a cardboard field of books that tie again to her tales of rising up in Russia, her misplaced love named Homer, and her wild claims that she is the “Authentic Angel”.
In fact within the second season, we study she was telling the reality, as she efficiently travels to a different dimension after being shot within the chest by a college shooter, however sadly the sequence was cancelled earlier than we received most of the solutions we had desperately looked for.
That’s the place Taylor Swift is available in.
The second season of The OA noticed the characters leaping dimensions as soon as once more, besides this time, it was into our dimension, the one the place we have been watching the present. Prairie grew to become Brit Marling, and sequence villain Hap grew to become Jason Isaacs.
Followers hoped and prayed that the cancellation was all a part of a advertising and marketing ploy that tied again to this plot level. It was throughout the days of the Jon Snow resuscitation in any case, so something was doable, however not even fan-funded billboards and starvation strikes might sway the streaming big, and since Netflix owned the present, different studios have been unable to select up the present.
If anybody understands absolutely the tragedy of an unresolved Easter Egg, or the shortcoming to manage your individual IP, it must be Swift, and after her Eras Tour, she additionally seemingly has the funds to tackle a undertaking of this dimension. Searchlight Photos already introduced in 2022 they have been producing her directorial theatrical debut, so why not add a TV sequence to the combination, or maybe she might convert the remaining storyline with Marling and Batmanglij right into a film franchise.
Something is feasible when there’s a room filled with Easter Egg masterminds concerned.