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June 8, 2018. (2018-06-08) Sense8 (a play on the word sensate / ˈsɛnseɪt /) is an American science fiction drama television series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski for Netflix. The production companies behind Sense8 included the Wachowskis' Anarchos Productions (replaced by Lana and her wife's Venus Castina ...
Jun 4, 2015 · 18 Things To Know About SENSE8. Love it or hate it – and if the early reviews are any indication, people are going to have very strong reactions to it, one way or another – Sense8 is a lot to ...
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- What Is The Overarching Philosophical Message of Sense8?
- How Will Sense8 seem Controversial?
- What Is Writing with The Wachowskis like?
- How Does The Story Build Over The Season?
- How Do You Whittle Down All The Big Ideas Into A Show Like this?
- What’s It Like to Have The Same Writers and Directors All Season?
- Do The Various Locations Tie Into The Overall Message of The Show?
- Is There Any Significance to The Different Cities?
- Why Use English Sometimes and A Foreign Language Other Times?
- Did Sense8 Invent Any Filming Techniques?
Straczynski:We didn’t want to do just an action story. If you look at how governments maintain control, it’s by pitting us against each other. In this country particularly, we have been marginalized and factionalized and tribalized within an inch of our lives… We wanted to do a story that said that we are better together than we are apart. That we,...
Straczynski: Science fiction TV has tended to be written by and for people who are afraid of girls. When you have to deal with questions of gender or sexuality, it’s always the alien culture — “They have this strange thing that they do with each other.” We’re addressing issues of gender, of sexuality, and identity really head on in this show in way...
Straczynski:It was me and Lana for a good portion of it. The cool thing about the Ws is that they have these 12-story brains. They keep you on your toes. After a while, we kind develop our own twin-speak along the way, so that we are very much on the same frequency for most of the writing process. The way we actually handle the physicality of it wa...
Straczynski:Every episode gets more intense than the one before it. Our structure for this was episode one is, “What the hell just happened?” Episode two is, “I kinda see where you’re going with this.” Three is, “I think I got it.” The further you go into it, the more everything is explained, and it all makes sense. We figure the characters aren’t ...
Straczynski:It’s a process. Michelangelo said that the way you sculpt a horse is you cut off a large block of marble and you chip away whatever isn’t the horse. We start off with a block of marble, which are all the ideas of where it could go, and I’m a structure nut. I think things have to go, if you have something over here, it has to make sense ...
Straczynski:I enjoy this model. The kind of consistency and vision and voice makes the show feel very, very coherent. Obviously there are benefits and drawbacks to both sides. When you’re doing an episodic series, you can have an episode that sounds or feels different than the other ones, and there are times when that’s good, and times when it’s no...
Straczynski:I think it does. The three of us wanted to explore those cultures and we could have done it small, all U.S., but we wanted to make each culture a character in the story. The Indian culture is not just something that is a backdrop; it’s part of our story. Nairobi, the culture and the background isn’t just separate; it’s part of our story...
Straczynski:It’s mainly for the contrast. We wanted to show First World, Second World, Third World, and to show the contrast culturally and personally so that we’re looking at going from the slums of Liberia and slums in Nairobi to really expensive houses in San Francisco or Chicago — and to show the contrast of that. We played with different optio...
Straczynski:They’re speaking their languages wherever they happen to be, we’re just hearing it as English. But we then expose that conceit. For instance, the first time Sun (Bae Doona) and Capheus (Aml Ameen) meet in person, he’s speaking his language and she’s speaking hers, and they don’t quite understand, then suddenly they begin to understand e...
Straczynski: When Sun helps Capheus in a fight scene, we had to figure out how do you choreograph it that so that a fight shot months apart, in two different locations, feels like one fight. She starts a punch in Seoul and delivers it in Nairobi. How do you choreograph that and make it not seem like two separate things? We had a lot of research and...
Jun 2, 2015 · defiantly strange. It is untraditional in nearly every sense, something that. (“Babylon 5”). Much as they did with “ Cloud Atlas,” the Wachowskis are. traditional narrative understanding. To complain that “Sense8” doesn’t make. traditional sense is to undervalue how it’s working more emotionally and philosophically.
Jun 8, 2018 · For fans of Sense8—which, with trans women at the helm, a diverse cast, and relatively nuanced treatment of topics banned from many a dinner table, is the most progressive genre show in recent ...
Jun 1, 2015 · Merie Weismiller Wallace/Netflix. Sixteen years after blowing minds and rebooting science fiction with The Matrix, Andy and Lana Wachowski are ready to plug back in and conquer humanity’s hive ...
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Jun 4, 2015 · Sense8, a play on the word “sensate,” follows eight strangers across the globe, each of whom are defined by their geographic location: London, Chicago, San Francisco, Nairobi, Mexico City ...
