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Jun 10, 2018 · The nuptials and post-wedding orgy made up the final chapter of the episode — an extra 30 minutes Wachowski asked Netflix for so she could properly send off her sensates. The ending is being ...
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- Kala. Kala has had a romantic conundrum since she fell in love with fellow sensate Wolfgang while she was engaged to her now-husband Rajan. The season finale introduces Rajan to Wolfgang, which makes Kala feel like she needs to make a choice.
- Will. Will’s (Brian J. Smith) unofficial position as the leader of his cluster had some fans wondering if he would end up sacrificing his life to save everyone.
- Nomi. The happiest ending of all might belong to Nomi. She finally marries the woman of her dreams in a beautiful ceremony at the Eiffel Tower. The computer whiz looks glamourous in a white and gold flowing gown as her best friend Bug walks her down the aisle.
- Capheus. Nairobi native Capheus (Toby Onwumere) is in the middle of effecting political change in his city when Wolfgang’s capture throws off his plans.
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By Matthew Dougherty
Posted: Jun 16, 2018 7:00 pm
Netflix gave Sense8 a feature-length series finale after cancelling the Wachowski-created series following Season 2. Here's our spoiler-filled review of how it ended.
"Pain binds us together better than anything else," Jonas tells Will early in Sense8’s two and a half hour finale. While true in some regard, it feels like one of the last remaining figures from a failed sensate cluster only makes it halfway to the full truth Sense8 is pushing. As secrets unfold in the finale, we learn the deeper reasons of various betrayals within Jonas’ cluster, which just further illustrates the difference between them and Will’s group of telepathically connected individuals.
Their eight-way relationship has been built on empathy and love since the start, and thus those ideals became the prerogative the show has always put forward. Whether it be Nomi struggling for her family’s acceptance, Kala struggling with the expectations of her culture, or any of the other individual sensates’ woes, their shared pain has always led them to a wider, more encompassing acceptance of each others’ love. One of the many truisms of this show is that it’s love that makes pain worth enduring. After all, it was love from this show’s fans that resurrected Sense8 from the dead so it could conclude.
And conclude it certainly does. Appropriately titled "Amor Vincit Omnia" ("Love Conquers All" in Italian), the Lana Wachowski-directed finale film is a warm goodbye to the fans that crams everything great about Sense8 — action, sci-fi, humor, sentimentality, and oh yes, an orgy — into just barely enough time to satisfy.
The first hour is largely devoted to resolving the chief cliffhanger left from Season 2, Wolfgang’s capture. Here, “Amor Vincit Omnia” takes a page out of Return of the Jedi (or The Matrix Revolutions, if you want to keep it in the Wachowskis’ canon) by devoting its entire first act to an elaborate plan the rest of the heroes concoct to rescue their one missing link, as well as all the many ways that plan goes wrong. They’re lucky, however, to have one huge bargaining chip: Whispers. With their main enemy captured, the sensates, most of whom are now physically together in Paris, are able to set up a prisoner exchange between themselves and Lila, who we now know is governed by the mysterious masked chairman who runs this whole evil organization.
For that to work, Wolfgang has to want to be saved. A number of the main eight have character arcs throughout the finale, but this initial one for the German assassin is both the most necessary and, thankfully, given the most time. The finale’s opening scene show us flashbacks to his childhood, where the shadow of an abusive father looms large. When Wolfgang telepathically tells Kala that he’s not worth being saved, he mirrors the words his mother said to him at a dire moment.Despite his violent occupation, he’s been trying to save people all his life, starting with his mother, a rescue that ended very violently, with his father engulfed in flames.
It takes Kala, after a couple attempts, to get Wolfgang to find the fight in himself again, continuing the first battle in a long time that isn’t just for himself, but for the family given to him via these gifts. Lana Wachowski shoots the mix of gunplay and hand-to-hand combat of his escape attempt with an unrestrained vigor, making for one of the better action scenes of the finale movie. But he still ends up in Lila’s clutches for the prisoner exchange to come.
Naturally though, with 90 minutes to go, the prisoner exchange, set in a nightclub for the “cool factor” more than any logical story reason, goes madly awry. Wolfgang reunites with his cluster, but Lila makes it off with Whispers before they can recapture him.
The aftermath is where “Amor Vincit Omnia” really starts to feel like a finale. With Sun’s legal and family troubles finally resolved, she’s ready to resume her romance with Suuku. Meanwhile, Kala now has to come to some sort of decision about the two men she loves (the answer: sci-fi polyamory!).
While it’s undoubtedly fun to have so many of the series’ supporting characters come together from across the globe, however conveniently the script allows them, it’s a bit frustrating that so much time in the final episode is spent with Sukku and Rajan, for instance, at the expense of major players like Lito and Riley. The former’s truncated role is especially disappointing, as he’s consistently been a highlight throughout the series and one of the loudest and proudest characters exhibiting the show’s themes of acceptance and equality.
But the Sense8 writers’ greatest strength has never really been the sci-fi plotting, but the small and large interactions between the cluster. And so, the last 30 minutes of the series still manage to be a success. The final collection of scenes starts with Nomi and Neets’ wedding within the Eiffel Tower. It had to. With all the love the show has put forward from the start, and with the Wachowskis both coming out as trans over the years, making the series arguably their most personal work to date, Sense8 had to end with an unapologetic celebration of love that serves as a reminder of all the ground this series broke.
There are lovely touches throughout the reception, from Nomi’s mother finally finding love for her daughter, via some potent pot brownies, to Angelica’s brief eye contact with Will, calling back to how the series started. But on Sense8, the celebration of love has to end up in the bedroom. And so the series ends with one last classic orgy scene, albeit one far more emotional than the previous two.
If Sense8 has to conclude too soon, there likely isn’t a better ending than what we got with “Amor Vincit Omnia.” Though the plot is a bit rushed and sidelines a few of the show’s best characters, the overwhelming message of love should leave fans on a warm and fuzzy note, while also reminding them how groundbreaking and important the series was fr...
- Matthew Dougherty
Jun 11, 2018 · At the end of the Sense8 series finale, the new and improved BPO vows to help and protect the sensates, hopefully without hunting them down and/or using them as drones for grand plans of immortality. The sensates themselves seem to have their freedom back, although their actual futures are left up in the air. Sure, there was a happy wedding and ...
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The Netflix exec said that the streaming service was "happy to be able to support" the final episode of the axed sci-fi series, but explained that in the end the decision to cancel Sense8 was ...
Jun 8, 2018 · No other show on TV would end its series finale the way Sense8 did. The series doubled down on its themes of radical empathy and acceptance in its own audacious way. What crisp and clean actor ...
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Jun 12, 2018 · The finale of Sense8 is finally upon us and, even with its satisfying ending, we've been left with quite a few questions. The series debuted on Netflix back in 2015 and quickly became a hit.
