With a streaming show like The OA — which premiered on Netflix initially in 2016 but did not drop its second season until 2019 — it can seem like the fandom hibernates in between installments. There’s no week-to-week analysis of the new episodes, or attempting to uncover spoilers from the season finale à la Game of Thrones. Yet the campaign to save The OA proves that these fans were never really sleeping on this series, even when the theorizing about season 2 plot points fell off in the months after the show’s premiere. Perhaps the fandom just assumed it would have the opportunity to finish what it started: While fans were waiting for season 2, Marling posted on Instagram about the care the creators were taking to get everything right, hence the nearly three-year wait between seasons.