For anyone who hasn't seen it, the new Netflix series Sense8 is brilliant.

[byronius]

Best writing, best ensemble cast, great story. My daughter talked me into it, and I'm glad she did.

Beautiful. Deep heart. Brave. Wise.

Love it. Gets better and better.

[Cha]

1. I saw it and reccomended to one of my friends.

It sure kept my interest.. couldn't wake to get back to it.. now waiting on the 2nd Season which will be in July 2017, I think.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Season two is scheduled for May.

Also, there is a "Christmas Special" which is two hours and ties some things together, and advances some stories. It also introduces the new cast member replacing the "Kenyan". The only downside is the entire thing is in English.

[Cha]

5. I saw the Christmas Special! i read that they were replacing

Capheus and the story behind it before I saw the special.

Toby Onwumere.. he got taller.

I know what you mean about it all in English.. but, personally I kinda like it.

And, of course, we all have our favorite characters.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. LOL! I can't remember any of their names.

Given I am a polyglot, I didn't like the all English version. I hope it was just the special. The scene with the Mexican actor and his mom brought me to tears. That man is sex on a stick!!

[Cha]

9. I like Wolfgang.. And, Lito was your guy!

Good for you being a polygot.. I know espanol a bit so it's the easiest for me to follow along when I'm watching something with subtitles.

That was a very moving scene with his mom. Such acting!

All of Season One was in English and I expect all of Season 2 will be also.. The foreign actors they have in there know their English really well with their accents. I just loved the way they came and helped each other out when desperately needed.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. I really like Wolfgang too!

Season One had so many scenes which had multiple languages. I enjoyed watching and hearing native languages in native lands. It was really interesting hearing Icelandic, which I had never heard. To see how it was all interwoven was so interesting. Of course, the scene between Lito and the cop (Mike?) had my husband and I almost falling off the couch! LOL!

[Cha]

13. Yeah, I was just thinking when I was re-reading what I wrote

that I loved it when they broke out in their native language.. I love hearing that, too. Just not the whole thing which is what I thought you meant.

Will is the cop.. one of my faves.. I won't say anymore for "spoiler" purposes for others. I really liked Fernando, too.

Everything was so realistic.. I think the only scenes that were staged that they weren't actually doing it were when people got shot(I don't think that's giving too much away).

And, how about that Sun from Seoul?

They're all amazing actors.. I looked up each one in the iMDB.. I do that for all the shows I watch. I like to know their background. Where they were born. Their birthdays..

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Will...damnit...told you I couldn't remember their names! LOL!

Sun is AWESOME! It isn't just her physical skills that makes her so incredible.

The interpersonal stories are so compelling. And yes, I agree, they are such good actors it seems as if they are really friends and the actions between them seem natural. It is so rare to be so engrossed in a story you forget you are watching a show, but that is how I feel when I watch that show (I felt that way with seasons 1 and 2 of Penny Dreadful)!

This is one of those rare shows which really transcends the "normal" formulas and makes it so wonderful.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Did you see the "Christmas" special?

It is two hours and adds some further info and introduces the new cast member, who is replacing the "Kenyan". It was a bit disappointing the entire thing was in English, but it was still pretty good.

[uponit7771]

4. How many seasons? Bingewatchable? I've tried to Binge watch Game of Thrones but too many episodes

... would take me a week

[Cha]

6. I binged watch.. there's 8 about each an hour long .. took me

a couple of nights. I wanted more.. and then they had a "Christmas Special" which was the first part of Season 2 that was 2 hours long.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. One season.

It is very engaging and not a typical storyline, which makes it so interesting, but it isn't so convoluted you get lost.

[Cha]

10. This is a good description..

The first season of Sense8, an American science fiction drama web television series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, follows eight strangers from different parts of the world who suddenly become "sensates"; human beings who are mentally and emotionally linked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8_(season_1)

Clue.. it took me a bit to get into it but I'm glad I stuck with it.

[riversedge]

12. Might save for Jan 20. I will not click on any news show!

[Cha]

14. Good plan, rivers!

[Javaman]

16. I'll give it another try.

I watched the premiere and wasn't all that impressed but it could have been the mood I was in that day.

[Iggo]

17. It starts slow.

I bailed on it at first, but went back to it when I was bored.

It gets way better.

[Javaman]

18. okay. I'll give it a shot.

that pretty much sums up my first impression as well.

[sarcasmo]

19. Great series, from the creators of The Matrix.

[hunter]

20. It's an amazing thing. The characters and settings are deep.

The settings of Sense8 are all over the place, not always the actual places, but fantastically diverse in comparison to any television series I've seen, maybe more than any James Bond movie.

I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for movies filmed entirely in Vancouver and it's surrounding environs, with Vancouver playing every city in the world, and the surrounding countryside everyplace else. (My favorite is always that rock quarry they use to represent deserts...). This is a skill I find useful when Los Angeles is used in a similar way, and you see the occasional palm tree in a place that's supposed to be Chicago. Or worse, Southern California beaches representing Hawaii, watching all the actors struggling to pretend the water is warm and the breezes not cool. Sense8 is NOT like that.

And the characters... oh my! Not your standard television fare. They are a wild celebration of diversity. It's Randy Newman's "Mama Told Me Not To Come" times a billion.

It probably reflects badly on me, but the character I most identify with is Wolfgang Bogdanow, a reluctant and unfortunate child of Berlin's gangster culture. Maybe it's because I sometimes feel like I've been thrown into a culture I want no part of. I grew up in a place that was Ivory Soap 99 44/100 white and affluent and very caught up in their own twisted culture, oblivious to the rest of the world as anything more than a vacation destination. One of the best things I ever did was quit high school and flee. I hope Wolfgang escapes. In some ways his prison is worse than the actual prison Sun Bak finds herself in.

As others have mentioned, the scene in the Christmas Special where the Mexico City actor Lito Rodriguez goes home to his mom after being outed in the trash papers is wonderful. And I agree, I like to see various languages with subtitles. I live in a place where Spanish is as common as English, and it's not uncommon to hear other languages, everything from Chinese to Farsi to the indigenous languages of Central America. I always watch movies in their original languages with subtitles, even movies in English, but I know that's not an easy sell in most markets.