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Watch Sense8 — Season 1 with a subscription on Netflix. ... Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/18/24 Full Review Lesterberne T Not very good. The character moments are interesting but ...
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Jun 3, 2015 · The 12-episode nominally science fiction series new on Netflix is without a doubt one of the most artistic, cerebral, and well-written offerings this year. The premise of the show is simple enough ...
Sense8: Season 1 Reviews All Critics All Critics Top Critics All Audience ... This series is more experiential in nature, like a drug trip or a good long shag session. You don't binge, you indulge.
Sense8: Let's talk about all of season 1. The first season of Sense8 is made for a full-season recap. It’s slow-burning narrative and general lack of hand-holding when it comes to storytelling ...
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By Eric Goldman
Posted: Jun 4, 2015 7:27 pm
Note: This is a spoiler-free review of the entire 12-episode season of Sense8, debuting June 5th on Netflix.
The Wachowskis are an incredibly accomplished duo – you don’t make films as great as Bound and, of course, The Matrix without some amazing, innate talent. But they’ve spent the past decade in a struggle to re-capture the alchemy present in their early triumphs, with films like Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending. All of these movies have their merits and all of them have notable issues.
Seeing them make the leap to television with the new Netflix series Sense8 was an exciting prospect though. What would these highly imaginative siblings do with a long-form narrative and more time to world build? The fact that they teamed with J. Michael Straczynski for the series was also highly promising, given his strong background in both TV (Babylon 5) and comic books (Thor).
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The end result though is, unfortunately, a missed opportunity for the Wachowskis. On its surface, Sense8 has a similar vibe to what Heroes felt like at its start – a story about people from around the world all discovering special abilities that bring them together. In this case, rather than individual super powers, our eight main characters all have the ability to directly connect to each other – to see one another right next to them, speaking with them. And, notably, to essentially channel each other, allowing one person to basically take control of another’s actions, when a certain skill set is needed.
There’s a lot of potential in that concept. But the problem is, the Wachowskis and Straczynski don’t actually seem to be all that interested in exploring it to its full potential. What the show really is, for much of its 12-episode season, is eight different character storylines, in eight different parts of the world, with eight different vibes to them.
Which, hey, could be a good show in and of itself. But there’s some issues here. One is that these storylines are okay, in general, but some of them are very basic – such as the Mumbai-based Kala (Tina Desai), who’s marrying a man for the wrong reasons; Will (Brian J. Smith), a Chicago cop trying to do the right thing in a tough world; London-based DJ Riley (Tuppence Middleton), who's fled a traumatic event in her past; or Wolfgang (Max Riemelt), a German criminal with a semi-heart of gold.
The cast are all solid, yet most of these characters are fairly bland and one-note. The kind-hearted Matatu bus driver Capheus (Aml Ameen) has a funny fascination with Jean-Claude Van Damme that is essentially his defining characteristic for most of the show. Seoul businesswoman Sun (Bae Doona) is caught up in an embezzlement scandal with her family, but barely registers as having a personality. On a show about getting to know people beyond what’s on the surface, the portrayal of these characters is often very surface level.
There's also some strange choices made, given the international approach of the characters. In an era when The Americans can have huge chunks of the show in Russian with subtitles, it's somewhat strange to have a show so notably about people from across the world (and on a platform that can allow for more risks than a network series) still have them all speaking English, with the implicit understanding that we are just hearing them in English - that they would actually be speaking their own language in "reality." But then comes a scene where Wolfgang and Kala have one of their first encounters, and suddenly they are actually speaking in their native language, with subtitles - but only in that one scene!
As for the sci-fi element that is the show’s hook, wow is this a slow burn. Too slow. Many have spoken about how the Netflix model of releasing the entire season at once, with the intention of it being binged, has producers treating a TV season like one extended movie. Which can work great – and has worked great for several Netflix series. But Sense 8 takes this “it’s one long movie” tactic too far. The first few episodes feel like the first half hour of a movie stretched out for several hours – making the “set up”/”getting to know the characters before the crazy s*** happens” portion of the story one that is way longer than needed. It’s not until the end of the third hour that we begin to see some truly interesting developments in terms of these abilities these people are discovering, with the fourth episode then delving more into what this could mean and what they could do…
Sense8 has so many elements of a great show – a cool concept, impressive creators, the globetrotting vastness of its production – that it’s a shame that it’s actually not great. Going back to a comparison I made at the top, it sometimes feels like the first season of Heroes (the one we all liked!), with otherwise unrelated people developing amazing...
Jun 1, 2018 · A few questionable performances and a couple of uninteresting plot developments do take away a little from the overall appeal of this sci-fi thriller but regardless of any inconsistencies, Sense8 is a well written, absorbing show proving to be money well spent. Verdict - 8.5/10. 8.5/10. Gorgeously shot and boasting some truly beautiful ...
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