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The Oa is one of the most fascinating and mind-bending sci-fi series ever created. Even though the series was not completed as created by Brit Marling intended, The Oa still garnered a massive following upon its cancellation, the fans of the series did not even believe the news of the cancellation to be true and theorized that the cancellation was a trick that the streaming platform is pulling to promote the upcoming season. The brilliant series tells one of the best and most confusing stories of all time following Prairie Johnson (Marling) who returns home after a seven-year disappearance, her return becomes more and more confusing as she was blind when she disappeared but now she is not and she is not talking about the disappearance. The Oa premiered its second and final season over three years in...

Jason Segel, Eve Lindley and André Benjamin joined the Variety Streaming Room for a Q&a after a screening of the first episode from their new TV series, “Dispatches From Elsewhere.” Moderated by Variety senior editor Michael Schneider, the stars discussed the making of the series, their connection to their characters and what they hope the audience takes away from the show.

“Dispatches From Elsewhere” was created by Segel and premiered March 1 on AMC. Based on Jeff Hull and Spencer McCall’s documentary “The Institute,” the show follows four normal people who discover an alternate reality puzzle and fall deeper into its realm while attempting to solve the mystery behind it.

Segel said he became fascinated with writing about the topic after watching “The Institute,” while preparing for his role as David Foster Wallace in 2015’s “The End of the Tour.” The documentary follows a 2008 alternate reality game set in...

Spoiler Alert: This story includes details from tonight’s finale of AMC’s Dispatches from Elsewhere.

In Monday’s season finale of Dispatches from Elsewhere, we finally learn the backstory of one mysterious, recurring character, with the unexpected entry of another into the narrative.

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Titled “The Boy,” episode 10 of the freshman AMC drama opens on a boy in a black-and-white world, watching such classics as The Muppet Show and Harold and Maude on his small retro TV. Inspired by what he’s seen, the boy becomes an actor, ending up in the clown makeup we’ve seen...

A thrilling, absorbing, absurdist real-world alternate-reality game played out on the streets of San Francisco and Oakland gets souvenir-doc treatment in Spencer McCall's The Institute—but complaints that there's too little here about how the Jejune Institute was hatched or what it all may have meant matter little in the face of the one great thing The Institute does offer: a record of the mad invention of the game's masterminds. A typical participant in the game (created by Jeff Hull) reports his experience: A flyer advertising force fields in San Francisco's financial district led him to call a phone number that directed him to an office suite, where a woman gave him a key to a room where a lounger was positioned before a TV upon which a cult-leader-like g...