Sense8 - Netflix original by The Matrix & Babylon 5 creators

[DotCommunist]

The circumstances behind Ameen’s exit are murky but sources indicate that there had been some sort of conflict between Ameen and Sense8co-creator/executive producer/director Lana Wachowski that flared up at the Season 2 table read in Berlin and worsened as filming progressed in India, leading to Ameen’s exit a couple of episodes in and the recasting of the role. Creative differences may have played a role in the departure.

Capheus “Van Damme,” which now will be played by Onwumere, is one of the main characters on Sense8, a young Kenyan man living in Nairobi who is striving to earn money for his AIDS-stricken mother’s medication. He is one of eight strangers around the word suddenly linked mentally and emotionally who are at the center of the sci-fi series created, written and executive-produced by Lilly and Lana Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski. According to updates by cast members on social media, filming on Season 2 recently moved to Italy from India.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Well how very dare they have creative differences and ruin my need for continuity. It's like Roseanne all over again.

 

[girasol]

Stopped watching after an hour, the Netflix special, it was awful. It lost its magic completely

 

[Vintage Paw]

That's a shame. I'll still give it a go at some point. But that is a shame.

 

[DotCommunist]

season 2 up in the usual places

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Just watched first 2 hr ep of S2 - fucking awesome

 

[joustmaster]

I watched the S02E01 on Friday, then was actually annoyed that I was off away for a holiday and couldn't watch the rest

 

[snadge]

Just started watching S2 last night, now binged up to ep 6, awesomeness, really beautiful watching again.

 

[Vintage Paw]

How's Capheus' new actor faring? Is the change jarring?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

How's Capheus' new actor faring? Is the change jarring?

Never even noticed tbh

 

[Corax]

Stopped watching after an hour, the Netflix special, it was awful. It lost its magic completely

That's a shame. I'll still give it a go at some point. But that is a shame.

Heads up to not give up...

I binged S01 and loved it.

I'm not sure I even managed to watch to the end of the special - I think I fell asleep at some point. I sometimes do that even with good stuff when I'm hooked and watching til 03:00, but this wasn't... that.

After a wee pause, I've just started watching S02 and it's fucking awesome. Halfway through S02E02 right now, and it's back to being the psychic version of the A-Team. Hells yeah

 

[Corax]

How's Capheus' new actor faring? Is the change jarring?

IMVHO then initially, yeah. I liked the last guy. A couple of episodes in and I'd forgotten about it though - new fella's good too.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Just finished S2. Fucking awesome. That last episode was gripping. Looks like a long wait (summer 2019) before we get to see S3!

 

[Corax]

Midway through S2 and have now developed a massive crush and decided that Tuppence Middleton has to marry me as soon as humanly possible.

 

[bmd]

Loved Season 1 even though it took fucking ages to get going. I sort of felt like it was veering into Lost territory at one point, in a bad way but they just managed to career along that edge and then whip the wheel in at the last moment.

I feel like I need to revisit it before I start S2, or do they have a thing at the start to remind you?

Hello Corax *waves* are you on a night shift or something?

 

[magneze]

There's a massive reminder of what happened before series 2.

 

[DotCommunist]

and there needed to be as well. It was a while between series and in any case I wasn't 100% what was going on anyway.

 

[Corax]

Hello Corax *waves* are you on a night shift or something?

Wotcha mate. No, just my usual late-night viewing! Still unemployed and signed off with MH stuff atm. Meh. Baby steps n'that innit.

 

[bmd]

Wotcha mate. No, just my usual late-night viewing! Still unemployed and signed off with MH stuff atm. Meh. Baby steps n'that innit.

Yes it is. Very much so.

 

[Artaxerxes]

And its cancelled.

Netflix cancels 'Sense8' after 2 seasons | TV Show Patrol



I enjoyed it but it was very ambitious and very expensively shot. I didn't much like the Christmas special and the last episode of S2 was very rushed but I admired its guts and its willingness to be innovative with the plot, as well as its focus on non-traditional actors and roles. Needed a few less set pieces and super slo mo orgies to tighten the episodes up and it could be a little self indulgent at times.

Still better than most of the crap out there though, and for once there was no cast member I really could not stand. A rarity in most TV series that (its usually the main actor as well).

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Bollocks!

 

[joustmaster]

Arseholes

 

[bendeus]

Absolutely gutted about this. Last episode of S2 was a bit disjointed and rushed but fuck, did it promise much. Awful decision.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Very sad about this. I've just started watching S2.

 

[DotCommunist]

and we're still waiting on Altered Carbon ya bastards

 

[SpookyFrank]

Season 2 dragged a bit in places but I still enjoyed it. The whole final sequence of the last episode was fantastic so I suppose there could be worse ways to end it.

Netflix are really churning out original stuff at the moment, I wonder if money getting a bit tight is a factor in this getting cancelled. It certainly looks pretty ruinously expensive to make.

 

[Crispy]

$9m per episode (up from $4.5 for season 1), which is incredibly expensive. Game of Thrones S6 and Westworld episodes cost $10m each, but they had far higher viewing numbers.

 

[joustmaster]

I wonder how many people watched it on Netflix and how many using piracy...

 

[SpookyFrank]

I wonder how many people watched it on Netflix and how many using piracy...

Game of thrones is still going and that's the most pirated tv show ever IIRC.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Game of thrones is still going and that's the most pirated tv show ever IIRC.

Also got a shit ton of merchandising and publicity to recoup the price tag.