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Sense8
Netflix Sense8 promo art.jpg
Genre
Created by
Written by
  • The Wachowskis
  • J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by
Starring
Composer(s)
  • Johnny Klimek
  • Tom Tykwer
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 12 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Marcus Loges[1]
  • L. Dean Jones Jr.
  • Alex Boden
Editor(s)
  • Joe Hobeck[1]
  • Joseph Jett Sally
Location(s)
Cinematography
Running time 45–66 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor Netflix
Release
Original channel Netflix
Picture format 4K (Ultra HD)[5]
Audio format Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 with Descriptive Video Service track
Original release June 5, 2015 (2015-06-05) – present
External links
Website

Sense8 (a play on the word sensate /ˈsɛnseɪt/, meaning aware)[6] is an American science fiction drama web television series created, written and executive-produced by Andy and Lana Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski. The first season, consisting of 12 episodes, became available for streaming on Netflix on June 5, 2015.

The plot revolves around eight strangers from different parts of the world who suddenly become mentally and emotionally linked. The show aims to explore subjects that its writers feel science fiction shows tend to ignore[7] or skim through[8] such as politics, identity, sexuality, gender and religion.[8][9]

The Wachowskis directed most of the first season, with the remainder being divided between their previous collaborators Tom Tykwer, James McTeigue, and Dan Glass. The series is the first produced under the banner of Straczynski's Studio JMS. On August 8, 2015, Netflix announced a second season.[10]

Premise[edit]

Main articles: List of Sense8 episodes and Mythology of Sense8

Sense8 tells the story of eight strangers: Will (Smith), Riley (Middleton), Capheus (Ameen), Sun (Bae), Lito (Silvestre), Kala (Desai), Wolfgang (Riemelt) and Nomi (Clayton), each from a different culture and part of the world. While living their everyday lives, they suddenly have a vision of the violent death of a woman called Angelica (Hannah) and discover that they are 'sensates': otherwise normal humans who are mentally and emotionally connected and who are able to communicate, sense and use each other's knowledge, language and skills. While trying to live their lives and figure out how and why this connection has happened and what it means, they are aided by another sensate, Jonas (Andrews), who is trying to protect them from "Whispers" (Mann), another sensate, who is similarly empowered and is hunting them down by tapping into their psychic link.[9][11]

Cast[edit]

Main article: List of Sense8 characters

Main[edit]

The majority of characters of the main cast are called sensates[12] and all are exactly the same age in the show, sharing the same birthday, August 8. The actors selected are somewhere between mid-20s and mid-30s.[13]

The Sensates[edit]

Other regulars[edit]

  • Naveen Andrews as Jonas Maliki, a sensate from a different cluster who wants to help the newly-born cluster of sensates.[9]
  • Freema Agyeman as Amanita, Nomi's girlfriend, who later becomes an ally for the new sensates.[12]
  • Anupam Kher as Sanyam Dandekar, Kala's father, a chef and restaurant owner.[17]
  • Terrence Mann as "Whispers", a sensate who turned against his own kind and who leads an organization determined to neutralize sensates.[9]
  • Daryl Hannah as Angelica "Angel" Turing, a sensate from an older cluster (which included Jonas) who becomes the "mother" of the new sensates' cluster as she activates their psychic connection.[18]

Recurring[edit]

  • Alfonso Herrera as Hernando, Lito's secret boyfriend.[12]
  • Adam Shapiro as Dr. Metzger, Nomi's doctor and an employee of Whispers.[19]
  • Chichi Seii as Shiro, Capheus' mother, who is seriously ill with AIDS.[20]
  • Maximilian Mauff as Felix Brenner, a locksmith who was Wolfgang's best friend and partner in crime.
  • Christian Oliver as Steiner, a villainous Russian mobster in Berlin who was at war with his cousin Wolfgang and Felix.[21]
  • Purab Kohli[22] as Rajan Rasal, Kala's fiancé.
  • Darshan Jariwala[22] as Manendra Rasal, father of Rajan and husband to Sahana.
  • Mita Vashisht[22] as Sahana Rasal, mother of Rajan and wife of Manendra Rasal.
  • Eréndira Ibarra as Daniela Velazquez, Lito's fellow actor, his cover to hide his sexual orientation and Joaquin's ex-girlfriend, the target of Joaquin's violent behavior and stalking.[23]
  • Frank Dillane[24] as Shugs, a close friend of Riley and boyfriend to Bambie.
  • Joe Pantoliano as Michael Gorski, Will's father, a retired cop.[19]
  • Lee Geung-young[25] as Bak Kang-Dae, a businessman and the father of Sun and Bak Joong-Ki.
  • Lee Ki-chan[25] as Bak Joong-Ki, Sun's younger brother.
  • Lwanda Jawar as Githu, the leader of the Nairobi "Superpower" gang.[20]
  • Biko Nyongesa[26] as a member of the "Superpower" gang.
  • Ma Dong-seok[25] makes a cameo appearance as the bouncer outside the sex club in Seoul.[27]
  • Myung Gye-Nam[25] as Sun's kickboxing trainer.
  • Natasha Rastogi[22] as Priya Dandekar, Kala and Daya's mother and Sanyam's wife.
  • Ness Bautista[19] as Diego Morales, Will's police partner.
  • Paul Ogola as Jela,[20] Capheus's best friend and partner in the "Van Damn" bus service.[28]
  • Peter King Mwania as Silas Kabaka,[29] a crime lord who approaches Capheus to work for him.
  • Rajesh Khera as a wedding planner.[30]
  • Raúl Méndez as Joaquin Flores, Daniela's jealous and violent stalker.[23][31]
  • Shruti Bapna as Devi, Kala's friend.[32]
  • Huzane Mewawala as Daya Dandekar, Kala's sister and a fellow pharmacist.
  • Kristján Kristjánsson as Gunnar, Riley's pianist father.[33]
  • Ari Brickman as the director in Lito's movies.
  • Joseph Mawle as Nyx, a drug dealer.
  • Lilja Þórisdóttir as Yrsa, a sensate from an older cluster.
  • Michael X. Sommers as Bug, an old friend of Nomi's who ran with her in her hactivist days.

Sense8: Creating the World[edit]

Sense8: Creating the World is a half-hour web television documentary, shot around the world, about the making of the Season 1 of the series.[34] It was released online in August 2015 by Netflix.[35]

Production[edit]

Conception[edit]

"We started out at one point talking about how evolution involves creating ever greater circles of empathy: You belong to your family, then you belong to your tribe, then two tribes link up and now you have empathy for your people on this side of the river, and you’re against the people on the other side of the river... on and on through villages, cities, states and nations... So what if a more literal form of empathy could be triggered in eight individuals around the planet... who suddenly became mentally aware of each other, able to communicate as directly as if they were in the same room. How would they react? What would they do? ... What does it mean? And what would the world think about people with this ability? Would they embrace it, or hunt them down...? It would give us a perfect platform to do a show that was loaded with action, big ideas, some amazing stunts that no one’s done before, and play to a planetary audience."

According to the Wachowskis, the origins of Sense8 date back several years to "a late-night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us".[36] Straczynski recalls that when the Wachowskis decided to create their own series, they chose to invite him to San Francisco because of his experience working with the format to brainstorm ideas.[6] Both the Wachowskis and Straczynski agreed if they were to do a TV series, they wanted to attempt to do something that had never been done before[37] and change the "vocabulary for television production", the same way The Matrix became a major influence for action movies.[38] After several days of discussion they decided on exploring the relationship between empathy and evolution in the human race.[6]

Development[edit]

The trio became so excited with the concept they came up with, they decided to develop it on their own instead of pitching it to someone else and on October 2, 2012, Variety reported the Wachowskis had written three hour-long spec scripts and were set to shop them around L.A. the coming week, with the help of Straczynski's Studio JMS and Georgeville Television.[39] If the series was picked up, the siblings and Straczynski would share showrunner duties. Additionally the Wachowskis planned to direct a few episodes of the show if their schedule permitted it. According to Straczynski, the first meeting with potential buyers was with Netflix. The Wachowskis and Straczynski talked to them about subjects such as gender, identity, secrecy and privacy instead of pitching action or otherwise commercial aspects and, when the meeting was over, they worried they made a mistake.[40] By noon, and before they had the chance to pitch it to other outlets, such as HBO,[38] Netflix called them to preemptively offer to buy and produce the first season.[6] Netflix announced that they had ordered a 10-episode first season for the series on March 27, 2013.[36]

Initial writing was split between the Wachowskis and Straczynski. The Wachowskis wrote episodes one, two, three, seven and eight. Straczynski wrote episodes four, five, six, nine and ten. Then the Wachowskis rewrote Straczynski's scripts and vice versa. Straczynski said a good portion of the writing was just he and Lana.[41] Lana Wachowski, a trans woman, has written her first transgender character in her career in the series: Nomi Marks. For that she partly used her own experiences. "It has some very intense, autobiographical scenes, and that was very difficult and surreal", said Lana.[42]

During filming,[43] because of the density of the scripts and the extended length of the first cut of the first episode, the showrunners and Netflix came to an agreement to extend the season to 12 episodes.[44]

Straczynski hopes that the series will consist of five seasons. Before filming began, Straczynski and the Wachowskis mapped out five seasons worth of stories for the series,[44] including the series' final episode.[45] Straczynski compiled a 30-page document detailing the key points of a hypothetical second season.[46] The actors cast were signed for five seasons. "We pitched it as a five-year story. We've mapped out five seasons of this thing, our actor deals are being made for five seasons, five or six depending on the breaks," said Straczynski.[13]

Comic book artist Steve Skroce, who has been collaborating with the Wachowskis since The Matrix on both film and comic book media, has created storyboards for the show.[47]

Filming[edit]

San Francisco
San Francisco

Chicago
Chicago

London
London
Nairobi
Nairobi

Seoul
Seoul
Mexico City
Mexico City

Reykjavík
Reykjavík

Berlin
Berlin

Mumbai
Mumbai

To properly tell the international aspects of the story, filming took place almost entirely on location around the globe in nine cities located in eight countries: Chicago, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Seoul, Reykjavík, Mexico City, Nairobi and Mumbai.[11][48] Production on the series began in June 2014 in San Francisco.[49] The filmmakers successfully negotiated with the organizers of the Clarion Alley Mural Project and select artists to feature their artwork in the show.[50] Shooting in Chicago began on July 9 and wrapped up on August 8,[51] with filming taking place both on location and at the Cinespace Film Studios.[49] During location scouting, the producers found the City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana and changed one site's description in the scripts to a church accordingly in order to fit that particular site into the filming.[52] They also shot some scenes in Chicago's Superdawg drive-through restaurant, while customers were being asked not to stare at the filming. Lana and Andy Wachowski are frequent customers of the place.[53] Filming in Berlin was done partly in Babelsberg Studio.[54] A sequence in Nairobi required a crowd of 700 extras, 200 cars and a helicopter.[20] In Mumbai they shot a Bollywood dance number that was choreographed by Slumdog Millionaire's Longinus Fernandes.[55] The writers wanted to feature an event in each city.[56] They were able to schedule the Pride[57] with its Dykes on Bikes on the Dyke March[58][59] in San Francisco, the Fourth of July fireworks celebration in Chicago, and the Ganesha Chaturthi Hindu festival in Mumbai.[34] Additionally they recorded footage from the Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer performance[60][61] in San Francisco, a club event taking place at the KOKO in London,[62][63][64] and a real lucha libre (Mexican professional wrestling) event with the fighters wearing wrestling masks in Arena Naucalpan, in Mexico City.[34][65] Lastly the scenes where characters are flying on an airplane were recorded during the real flights the cast and crew had to do to get from London to Iceland.[66][34][56] On November 17, 2014. Straczynski wrote that the main unit shooting had wrapped, with only a few winter shots in Iceland remaining to be captured the next month.[67] These scenes were further delayed to mid-January 2015, until Iceland had the necessary amount of snow,[56][68] with the wrap party taking place in Reykjavík's Harpa Music and Concert hall on January 21, 2015.[69] By the end of the shooting, the filmmakers had completed 100,000 miles of flight time, or four times around the globe.[48]

The show's directors were attached to locations instead of episodes[70] and with all eight countries featured in every one of them, each episode ended up having multiple directors.[71] The Wachowskis were responsible for directorial duties in scenes shot in Chicago[49] and San Francisco[72] along with London and Iceland, two places which were initially announced to be helmed by Straczynski.[37] Straczynski eventually opted to offer them to the siblings because of the extensive action scenes involved in those locations[73] and instead focused his energy on post-production.[44] James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) worked on the Mexico City and Mumbai parts[56] along with some in Reykjavík[71] and German director Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas), whose Nairobi Half Life production impressed the Wachowskis, helmed Berlin[74][75] and Nairobi.[20] Dan Glass, who had been the visual effects supervisor for every Wachowski film since The Matrix Reloaded, reprised his role in Sense8 while also making his directorial debut in the Seoul part of the story.[76][77] Reportedly the Wachowskis additionally directed segments in places different directors were otherwise attached. These include in Mexico City the stunts the character of Silvestre performed for his action movie[78] and in Nairobi car chase scenes with the 'Van Damn' bus[20] along with a fight scene involving machetes.[79] In total, the Wachowskis were credited for directing seven episodes, McTeigue and Tykwer two each, and Glass one.[5] The series was mostly shot with Sony's CineAlta PMW-F55 cameras and credited John Toll as its main director of photography for overseeing the distinct look of the nine featured locations.[80] Toll, once again collaborating with the Wachowskis and Glass after Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending,[81] personally handled the cinematography in Chicago,[82] San Francisco,[83] London,[84] Iceland,[85] and Seoul.[86] Additional cinematographers worked with the rest of the directors in the remaining locations. McTeigue's cinematographer of choice for shooting in Mexico City[87] and Mumbai[56] was Danny Ruhlmann, who previously shot The Raven and Survivor for him.[88] Tykwer worked with Frank Griebe and Christian Almesberger for the Berlin[89] and Nairobi[90] scenes respectively. Griebe had previously shot seven feature films of Tykwer's including Cloud Atlas and Almesberger was the cinematographer of two films Tykwer had produced in Nairobi: Soul Boy and Nairobi Half Life.

For the series' almost two-minute long title sequence, Karin Winslow — wife of Lana Wachowski — rented a car and with the help of a camera assistant traveled in the eight featured countries and captured over a hundred shots. "My directive from Lana was to go out and describe each country by what you see; find the nuances, find the food, find what people are doing, get a feel for the place," said Winslow.[91] In the closing credits of each episode, she is credited for the "main title design".

Effects and post-production[edit]

Seoul unit director Dan Glass and Jim Mitchell were the visual effects supervisors of the series. An in-house VFX team was established in Chicago which completed over 700 shots. The major external VFX vendors were Locktix VFX (160-180 shots), Technicolor VFX (over 100 shots)[92] and Encore VFX. Additional work was done by Studio 8 FX, Trace VFX and Almost Gold.[93] Because of the series' tight budget and timeline the production made the decision to do most of the effects in-camera and only enhance them digitally where appropriate. In fact for a great number of shots which involved the sensates communicating and visiting each other telepathically the cast were simply moving in and out of the frame in timely fashion requiring no additional work.[34] According to Glass most of the VFX work that was done is invisible in the final show and consisted mostly of split-screens, crew and rig removal, weather augmentation and screen inserts. Of the more visible work done Glass provided the examples of age manipulation of actors, dramatic enhancement of the weather in the car scenes in Iceland, a few greenscreens and computer generated blades, blood and wounds.

Technicolor provided dailies and worked with cinematographer John Toll to color grade the show giving it a look which colorist Tony Dustin describes as "both real and surreal, with a slightly elevated color-saturation". The Wachowskis made the mandate for production to not "lock reels", as it's typically done on TV shows, but instead be able to tinker editorially with the series' narrative, look and tone up to release. They also wanted the color grading of the series to be done in the da Vinci Resolve software and be of theatrical feature film quality. Technicolor finished the show in 4K and delivered both 2K and 4K resolution masters.[92]

Music[edit]

Tom Tykwer and Johnny Klimek, who co-composed the score for Cloud Atlas and had a minor contribution in the soundtrack of The Matrix Revolutions as part of Pale 3, composed the series' music which was orchestrated by fellow Cloud Atlas collaborator Gene Pritsker.[1][94] The music was written before filming began[95] and it was recorded by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.[54] This way the production was able to play it back to the actors before shooting a scene. Tykwer, who has made the music for all of his movies this way, introduced to the Wachowskis the concept of first writing the music during preproduction of Cloud Atlas and the siblings have since commented they are not making a movie again a different way.[96] Ethan Stoller and Gabriel Isaac Mounsey, past collaborators of the Wachowskis and Tykwer, are credited for composing additional music and score. Stoller also acted as the series' music editor.[97]

The title of Episode 4 "What's Going On?" refers to lyrics in the song "What's Up?" by the 4 Non Blondes which is featured in the scene when Nomi narrowly escapes the hospital. When Nomi said the words were in her head all day, Amanita recognized the song saying it was the perfect song for a lobotomy.[98]

Reception[edit]

Critical reception of Sense8 has been generally favorable. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator website, reported a 70% approval rating with an average rating of 5.8/10 based on 37 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Some of the scenarios border on illogical, but the diverse characters and the creative intersections between their stories keep the Wachowskis' Sense8 compelling."[99] On Metacritic the show is assigned a score of 63 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[100]

On Netflix over 1,000,000 users rated the show with an average of 4.2 out of 5 stars.[101] According to Straczynski, Netflix representatives told him that viewers are watching the entire season "straight through – three, four, six times."[102] Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos praised the success of Sense8 in the up-and-coming French and German markets[103] but also globally.[104] Less than three days after its premiere, Variety reported that the show had been pirated more than half a million times, regardless of the series' digital distribution.[105]

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