Netflix: Sense8

The second season is coming up circa May. There was an Xmas episode.I find the concept captivating and the cinematography mind-blowing. Just the lay-out of the scenes is incredible. There's a half-hour "Making of Sense8" segment on Netflix about how they travelled the world and had to revisit earlier shoots to see how this next shoot fits into the story. Amazing!A lot of the themes end up being LGBTQXYZSDKDLIRONGIE-whatever. People are people!I honestly do not know anybody else who has watched this show.

Should have mentioned that it's produced, written, and directed by the Wachowskis (The Matrix) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5).The premise is that there exist clusters of people, sensates, who are psychically connected, so that they can feel what the others feel, visit with each other, and use each other's body to perform tasks (hint, when visiting and they pick up something or sample some English tea, it's through the physical body that's there). These clusters are seen as a threat by a powerful organization, possibly governmental, led by a powerful sensate, Whispers, who hunts down other sensates. The show is about a cluster of 8 sensates scattered around the world (San Francisco, Mexico City, Chicago, London, Berlin, Nairobi, Mumbai, Seoul) which is just starting to become connected. Each has skills that they use to help each other.To get a sample, there are several video clips on YouTube, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXM3XpiMJjc&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqx-YW5Xbww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfx2cPEhfL0
It's not all action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqU7Vah8FVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8cwybilMiAAll the switching of bodies in the audience's perspective is done with camera work, not special effects. The production crew circled the globe filming all the scenes which integrate different locales very tightly. The Wachowskis had worked all that out ahead of time and kept it all straight.

I've heard of that one, but I don't have access.I read news that the show recently set up "Resistance Radio" as publicity for the new season. It drew a lot of protests from right-wingers who didn't realize that it wasn't real.A similar publicity stunt was one for the new season of "Better Call Saul." AMC ran a realistic commercial for Los Pollos Hermanos complete with an appearance at the end by Gus promoting his curly fries.Edited by dwise1, : Los Pollos Hermanos

Oops, I just now got your joke. Different meaning of "straight", just as yet another meaning was used when in college I was described by someone as the straightest guy he had ever met (meaning in those days "non-freak" AKA "not a hippie").I was going to apologize for the letter-salad, which I intended as a joke that it seems like extra letters keep getting added on; eg, during the campaign suddenly a "Q" was added. Somewhere I read or heard the statement that there are 23 genders, but I think that was satire.The reviews for the show seem divided between people to like it and anti-LGBTs denouncing it as part of the "gay agenda." The latter probably didn't get past or even through the first episode, which did use a gay pride event in San Francisco in its location shots but that was because it was happening when they went there -- 10th Doctor's "Martha Jones" was excited that they got to ride with Dykes on Bikes -- see the "Making of Sense8" feature. As it is, of the 8 sensate characters, one is a gay actor playing macho roles and another is a transwoman in a lesbian relationship (with Martha Jones). The other six are all straight. So while it does have some LGBT themes and has the audacity of treating those two characters and their stories seriously and directly, there is also a lot more going on in the show.

A new episode came out in December and the second series around 05 May. In the US,don't know about their UK schedules.

First, NetFlix cancelled Sense8.Second, I saw either on FaceBook or on AOL a link about Sense8 being given a two-hour finale that will stream in 2018.First, it looked like click-bait and I don't bite on click-bait.Second, there's more than one video on YouTube of unfulfilled cliff-hangers because the show had been cancelled, no resolution, no joy. I would have to say that I have more respect for the powers-that-be who allow a show to finish telling its story. If this story is true, then hurrah for NetFlix!