Can I just say that Sens8 has been the strangest thing in television I've ever experienced...
The first 10 episodes were confusing as hell, but then it sort of came together as a "we are Legion" superhero story where each character learns to draw on the other characters' skills at will. Like when Riley, the Icelandic DJ gets tortured by gang members and channels the close quarters combat skills of Will the policeman, and Will channels the "professional" driving skills of Capheus the bus driver, who in turn channels the martial arts skills of Sun, the Korean business woman who was raised by the guy who trained Karate Kid or something.
The first episodes is setting up the story, from the moment the eight "sensates" (hence the 8 in Sens8) are linked together by a 9th person, the mysterious Angel(ica), to each individual dealing with suddenly being able to tap into the senses of the seven other people. I was waiting for them to reach a point where it became their thing to just channel the needed badass for any given scenario, like mentioned above - unfortunately it took 11 episodes, and the 12th was the season finale, but I suppose that'll allow them to step right into season 2 with pure badassery.
It's also the most graphic show I've seen. I'd say it even surpasses Game of Thrones, which is saying something. Not quite as many boobs on screen, but they're not afraid to show genitalia, from the German gangster, Wolfgang, who likes to go to nude baths, to a montage showing several women giving birth, with close-ups of the vaginal area. I mean, it's probably - likely - prosthetic, but it still looks gross as hell. And the violence is also pretty graphic. Very few off-camera deaths, and plenty of Tarantino-esque blood spatter to go around.
Overall an interesting watch, but be prepared to be a giant question mark for the first couple of episodes. And the whole equality thing got a little overboard in one episode, but nothing that distracted too much from the story, and I suppose it makes sense when one of the sensates is a gay Mexican movie star, and another sensate is a lesbian trans woman. Oh, and there's an orgy scene somewhere in there where all eight sensates have sex with each other via mind-meld. That was... strange.
God, ZAM... I'm pretty sure filtering 'lesbian' and 'gay' is illegal in, like, every country over here. A little thing called discrimination, yo. Like filtering out 'black person' and 'African American'.
Edited, Jun 11th 2015 10:15pm by Mazra
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