But around episode 4 or 5 things starts to pick up when these differing characters begin to interact and help each other out. However subsequent episodes are a little wobbly, struggling to find its footing due to the build-up of characters’ backstory (the risk of having eight stories is that some are interesting, and some are not) and that vague looming threat. The pilot episode of Sense 8 starts intriguingly with Darryl Hannah making a cameo (though her name is listed in the nice cross-cultural opening credit with stirring score from Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer) as a troubled sensate whose predicament becomes a catalyst that brings together the other characters. They even have a villain: a group called the Whispers, whose mission is still unclear to me largely due to the constant cryptic warning of head sensates (Naveen Andrews) who every time he appears never really explains who he is, what they are or what kind of threat they’re dealing with (I guess only in movies does such character exist). Yes, these characters-called sensates-are like superhero characters sans the “super” prefix and skin-tight costume, and their powers of course are more grounded in reality. Michael Straczynski ( Babylon 5), tells the story of eight random people-a police officer in Chicago, a transwoman hacktivist in San Francisco, a safe-cracker in Berlin, a scientist in Mumbai, a gay actor in Mexico City, a bus driver in Nairobi, a corporate businesswoman in Seoul, and an Icelandic DJ living in London-who are telepathically linked that makes them able to communicate with each other, switching location back and forth in the process, and in times of stress, merged with one character so that he/she are able to showcase their expertise (fighting, shooting, doctoring, speed driving, bomb making, etc). But watching Netflix’s original series, Sense8, I can’t help to notice and admire the stellar work of the editors: here is a 12-episode series that features eight interconnected stories set in various countries and, during the height of its thrilling - and at times violent - action scenes, characters will appear-however briefly-in and out as backup help.īut first let me give you a brief outlay of the picture: Sense8, the brainchild of Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski ( The Matrix) and J. "Toget8 we stand." I never really pay much attention to the art of editing before-most movies or TV shows, in my eyes, just have that effortless fluidity (or maybe I’m just not a technical person).
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