DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
SENSE8
May 5, 2017  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

SEASON PREMIERE: The Season 2 premiere of this multiple-perspective, multiple-storyline sci-fi series picks up where Season 1 left off – but also serves as a reset of course, to re-establish the story and characters and give new viewers a way in. Since Season 1 is available in its entirety on Netflix already, that’s hardly a requirement – but with a narrative this convoluted, it is a bit helpful. Eight characters are connected, telepathically and in other ways, and a giant conglomerate is after them – and that’s only for starters.

 
 
 
 
 
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Leila L"Abate
I probably faithfully watched almost every show in Bianculli's best bets, but somehow missed this treasure.

One cannot stress the word "ambitious" enough, with 8 different casts in eight different countries, beautifully photograpped, flooded with light in some scenes, dimmed in darkness in others. Beautifully wide outside vistas and claustrophobic insides...Very colorful world-wide every-episode opening montage that tells us "mind the gap," and "kindness is sexy" painted on signs, telling us two major themes...The characters and this series end up trying to make a difference in the world, speaking and showing us against its greed, wealthy entitlement, narrow-mindedness and cruelty, and sticking up for kindness, care, LGBTQ, poor folks, and regular folks...

The writing brims with as many ideas as the Matrix movies, and with much societal and political comments that never feels too heavy-handed, but shows how the political becomes personal...and vice versa

Mind this show!
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