First two episodes we thought "Holy slow development, Batman!". At the end of the first Season, my better half and I loved that show.
It struck a chord deeply within me, because the stories underlying belief system covers many, many, many aspects of my own personal belief system, especially since the death of my wife. Multiverses are the latest thing, I guess. Noone is really gone forever
But I must say that, as frackin´ cool as I found the idea of "Old Knight" (or is it old night?), as rushed in it felt to me. We just started episode five and I just made the mistake to read a tiny spoiler about what happens with Hap and Elodie, but that spoiler combined with "old knight" kind of pulled me out of the story. The philosophical and hence fantastic aspect feels pushed out of the way in favor a more science fiction aspect. Yes, science has played a major role in the first season, but that was IMO "pseudo" science, because Hap was just experimenting, not really knowing what he was doing. Fishing in the dark and murky waters of after life.
I am ready to accept a lot of fantastic stuff, but IMO here in that season it felt like they shoe horned a lot of good ideas into the early episodes as if they were afraid that the show might get cancelled before they are able to use those ideas. I loved Fringe and Quantum Leap and so on, The OA though is atm a completely different beast. I am quite torn, yet curious to see how everything plays out.