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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Radheyan Simonpillai

O’Dessa review – clumsy sci-fi musical is a rocky road to nowhere

a woman wearing a leather jacket holds an instrument, people standing behind her
Sadie Sink in O'Dessa. Photograph: PR

Sadie Sink needs to be freed from whatever nostalgia curse has condemned her to a career full of pop synth soundtracks.

If Sink seemed the obvious choice to lead O’Dessa – a dystopian rock opera that feels like an 80s retro futurist screensaver lurching to life – it’s because of her impact in Fear Street: Part 2 and Stranger Things. Both situate the seemingly wise-beyond-her years star in the reimagined past of 40 to 50 years ago.

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