{5\/5} “Impossibility is a kiss away from reality.”<\/p>\n
Sense8<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2015<\/p>\n Eight people from around the world suddenly become mentally linked, in a way that eventually allows them to help each other by briefly taking their place in order to do something they can do better. Capheus is a bus driver in Kenya and is having trouble getting enough money for medicine for his mother. Sun is a businesswoman at her father’s company in South Korea and is also talented at kickboxing. Nomi is a hacktivist in San Framcisco who’s going to have her brain operated on against her will. Kala is a pharmacist in India who’s about to be married to a man who seems nice but she doesn’t love.<\/p>\n The first couple of episodes are somewhat confusing as they switch back and forth between characters you’re not familiar with yet — but stick with it, as it gets more interesting.<\/p>\n Once you watch a few episodes, you’ll follow these characters anywhere. Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/strong>, the characters may be in a fantastic situation but they’re very real. It’s not just the main characters but the secondary characters are also brilliant.<\/p>\n The visuals have the feel of a movie, with filming taking place on location.<\/p>\n It’s unnecessarily graphic at times — other than that, I loved it.<\/p>\n The glorious music is by Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer — unusually, the music for each season was written before that season was filmed.<\/p>\n One more quotation: “The real violence — the violence that I realized was unforgivable — is the violence that we do to ourselves when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.”<\/p>\n It’s about what you can do when you work together.<\/p>\n Stars Naveen Andrews, Doona Bae, and Brian J. Smith.<\/p>\n Darryl Hannah guest stars as the person who somehow triggers the connection between the sensates. Joe Pantoliano guest stars as Will’s father.<\/p>\n The show was created by the Wachowskis (Jupiter Ascending<\/strong><\/a>) and J. Michael Straczynski (writer on Superman: Grounded<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “Impossibility is a kiss away from reality.” Sense8 season 1, aired in 2015 Eight people from around the world suddenly become mentally linked, in a way that eventually allows them to help each other by briefly taking their place in order to do something they can do better. Capheus is a bus driver in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,5,11],"class_list":["post-10865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10865"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}