The One Show presenter, 42, and her co-host Matt Baker, 41, were joined by The OA star Jason Isaacs, 55, to talk about the eagerly-awaited second season of the Netflix sci-fi drama. However, both Alex Jones and Matt were quickly called out by the actor when he declared he knew their secret. “You two are the only people in the studio who haven’t seen [the show],” he said with a lightheartedly accusatory tone. “We haven’t seen it, no!” Matt admitted, at which point Alex opted to excuse herself from blame.
“I’m saving it for maternity leave, see?” she chimed in, as Jason smiled and nodded, replying: “Excellent, thanks.”
The presenters’ lack of knowledge about The OA continued to hamper them during the course of the interview, as Alex attempted to solider on: “We’re going to do a sum up, you jump in if I’m wrong.”
“Good luck,” Jason said, aware that the complex and mysterious series was difficult to define even for those who had seen it.
“So, young girl—” Alex continued, at which point he interjected: “Wrong!”
As the studio audience, and her colleague Matt, laughed, the Welsh star tried again: “She’s a blind girl, disappears, comes back, new name, new eyes…
“She comes back and then she can kind of jump through time and space—”
“No, wrong,” Jason stopped her again, conceding: “But you’re very, very well.
“You’re reading it magnificently,” he teased.
Luckily, he didn’t appear to mind too much that the show had passed Alex and Matt by, taking a good-humoured approach to the situation.
“There’s a woman who comes back, she was snatched when she was a girl,” he explained. “She comes back and she’s got her sight back.
“People don’t know what’s happened to her, she won’t tell the FBI or the police or anything.
“She gathers a bunch of misfits and broken people, she gets them in the loft of an abandoned building and she starts to tell this story.
“We don’t know if she’s telling the truth or not because it’s so remarkable and so unusual,” he added. “These other people don’t know whether to believe her or not.
“The thing about The OA is every time you try to define it and put it in a box, it pulls the rug out from under you,” he said.
“You don’t know what’s going on, you don’t know where they’re going. You don’t know if she really can move through time and space. You don’t know if anything really happened.”
The One Show airs weekdays at 7pm on BBC One.
The OA seasons one and two are available on Netflix now.