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Jun. 30th, 2015 09:47 pmSense8? Sense8. That was CERTAINLY a Wachowski show. I watched the first two episodes with a headache and without my contact lenses in and so experienced then mostly as a soothing blur of color and sound and people complaining about their headaches, which were so obviously worse than mine that I felt comforted all the way through.
(I still have no idea what was going on in the first half of Riley's plot, but since it turned out to be totally irrelevant except for establishing that she took a lot of drugs, that's probably fine.)
Okay, Sense8 is a show about how eight people around the world get mysteriously psychically connected through their brains via magic evolution. (Mostly they take this in stride; there are a lot of numinous moments of connectivity and none of what I would be doing in this situation, which is having enormous freakouts about my loss of privacy.) It reminded me quite a lot of S1 Heroes, except with much better visual and art direction, and even worse plotting and dialogue. When originally planning this post I was going to say "except at least without the nonsensical Mohinder monologues about evolution," except in the last few episodes Naveen Andrews is like "I heard you guys were missing some nonsensical monologues about evolution, LET ME MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME." And he does. Oh, boy, does he.
( Cut for length! )
It's super pretty though! Very pleasant to watch as a sensory experience. Occasionally there are Bollywood dance numbers and/or global telepathic singalongs. I will watch a Season Two, although, having already compared it to Heroes, it's quite likely I will drastically regret that statement.
(I still have no idea what was going on in the first half of Riley's plot, but since it turned out to be totally irrelevant except for establishing that she took a lot of drugs, that's probably fine.)
Okay, Sense8 is a show about how eight people around the world get mysteriously psychically connected through their brains via magic evolution. (Mostly they take this in stride; there are a lot of numinous moments of connectivity and none of what I would be doing in this situation, which is having enormous freakouts about my loss of privacy.) It reminded me quite a lot of S1 Heroes, except with much better visual and art direction, and even worse plotting and dialogue. When originally planning this post I was going to say "except at least without the nonsensical Mohinder monologues about evolution," except in the last few episodes Naveen Andrews is like "I heard you guys were missing some nonsensical monologues about evolution, LET ME MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME." And he does. Oh, boy, does he.
( Cut for length! )
It's super pretty though! Very pleasant to watch as a sensory experience. Occasionally there are Bollywood dance numbers and/or global telepathic singalongs. I will watch a Season Two, although, having already compared it to Heroes, it's quite likely I will drastically regret that statement.
