Sense8

Sense8
Genre
Created by
Written by
  • The Wachowskis
  • J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by
Starring
Composer(s)
  • Johnny Klimek
  • Tom Tykwer
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 12 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Deepak Nayar[1]
  • Leon Clarance
  • Marc Rosen[2]
  • Cindy Holland
  • Peter Friedlander
  • Tara Duncan
  • The Wachowskis
  • J. Michael Straczynski
  • Grant Hill
Producer(s)
  • Marcus Loges[1]
  • L. Dean Jones Jr.
  • Alex Boden
Location(s)
Cinematography
Running time 45–66 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor Netflix
Release
Original network Netflix
Picture format 4K (Ultra HD)[5]
Audio format Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 with Descriptive Video Service track
Original release June 5, 2015 (2015-06-05) – present
External links
Website

Sense8 (a play on the word sensate /ˈsɛnseɪt/)[6] is an American science fiction drama web television series created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski for Netflix. Sense8 is being produced by the Wachowskis' Anarchos Productions and Straczynskis' Studio JMS, along with Javelin Productions and Georgeville Television. Unpronounceable Productions has been set up to oversee production for this show.

A multinational ensemble cast starring Tuppence Middleton, Brian J. Smith, Doona Bae, Aml Ameen, Max Riemelt, Tina Desai, Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Jamie Clayton plays eight strangers from different parts of the world who suddenly become mentally and emotionally linked. Freema Agyeman, Terrence Mann, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews and Daryl Hannah also star. The show aims to explore subjects that its creators feel have historically not been emphasized in most science fiction shows to date,[7][8] such as politics, identity, sexuality, AIDS, gender and religion.[8][9]

The series is written by the Wachowskis and Straczynski and most episodes are directed by the Wachowskis, with the remainder being divided between their frequent collaborators James McTeigue, Tom Tykwer and Dan Glass. Sense8 is shot almost entirely on location in a multitude of cities around the world.

The first season, consisting of 12 episodes, became available for streaming on Netflix on June 5, 2015, and has been met with generally favorable critical reception. It has become notable for its presentation of LGBT characters and themes, winning the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series. On August 8, 2015, Netflix announced that it had renewed the show for a second season.

Premise

Sense8 tells the story of eight strangers: Riley, Will, Sun, Capheus, Wolfgang, Kala, Lito and Nomi, each from a different culture and part of the world. While living their everyday lives, they suddenly have a vision of the violent death of a woman called Angelica and discover that they are 'sensates': otherwise normal humans who are mentally and emotionally connected and who are able to communicate, sense and use each other's knowledge, language and skills. While trying to live their lives and figure out how and why this connection has happened and what it means, they are aided by another sensate, Jonas, who is trying to protect them from a similarly empowered sensate called "Whispers", who hunts down sensates by tapping into their psychic link.[9][10]

Cast

The eight sensates

Other regulars

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

Main article: Sense8 (season 1)
No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Title Directed by Written by Original release date
11"Limbic Resonance"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
22"I Am Also a We"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
33"Smart Money Is on the Skinny Bitch"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
44"What's Going On?"Tom TykwerThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
55"Art Is Like Religion"James McTeigueThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
66"Demons"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
77"W. W. N. Double D?"James McTeigueThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
88"We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts"Dan GlassThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
99"Death Doesn't Let You Say Goodbye"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
1010"What Is Human?"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
1111"Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes"Tom TykwerThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)
1212"I Can't Leave Her"The WachowskisThe Wachowskis & J. Michael StraczynskiJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05)

Season 2

The series was renewed for a second season on August 8, 2015.[17] Production start for the main unit was given an expected date of March 2016,[18] but a separate shoot involving the principal actors began on December 30, 2015 in Berlin to capture footage during the Christmas holidays.[19][20][21][22] This was followed by a short two-day shoot in Chicago on January 23 and 24, 2016.[23] Filming resumed in Berlin in the middle of March 2016[24] and proceeded to Mumbai on March 25, 2016 for a ten-day shoot.[25][26] On April 7, 2016 filming started in Positano[27][28] and later in April moved to Mexico City and Metepec.[29][30][31][32]

Plans to film in São Paulo and its Gay Pride Parade in late May,[33][34] in Amsterdam during the summer[35] and in Chicago on June 4–15 and October have been reported.[36][23] Filming in Namibia, London, Rome and South Korea has also been mentioned.[27] Shooting locations are expected to almost double in number compared to the first season's, with a number of fifteen or sixteen cities having been revealed by the actors.[29][37]

On April 26, 2016 Deadline reported that Ameen abruptly left production a couple of episodes into filming over a conflict with Lana Wachowski that started during the table read for the season and progressively got worse. Subsequently the role of Capheus was recast to Toby Onwumere.[14]

Although an official date has not been published by Netflix, Clayton has stated the first episode is expected to be released around Christmas 2016, with the rest of the episodes following at some point in 2017. The first episode's script bears the title Christmas Special on it.[38]

Production

Conception

"We started out at one point talking about how evolution involves creating ever greater circles of empathy: You belong to your family, then you belong to your tribe, then two tribes link up and now you have empathy for your people on this side of the river, and you’re against the people on the other side of the river... on and on through villages, cities, states and nations... So what if a more literal form of empathy could be triggered in eight individuals around the planet... who suddenly became mentally aware of each other, able to communicate as directly as if they were in the same room. How would they react? What would they do? ... What does it mean? And what would the world think about people with this ability? Would they embrace it, or hunt them down...? It would give us a perfect platform to do a show that was loaded with action, big ideas, some amazing stunts that no one’s done before, and play to a planetary audience."

—J. Michael Straczynski, co-creator[6]

According to the Wachowskis, the origins of Sense8 date back several years to "a late-night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us".[2] Straczynski recalls that when the Wachowskis decided to create their own series, they chose to invite him to San Francisco because of his experience working with the format to brainstorm ideas.[6] Both the Wachowskis and Straczynski agreed if they were to do a TV series, they wanted to attempt to do something that had never been done before[39] and change the "vocabulary for television production", the same way The Matrix became a major influence for action movies.[40] After several days of discussion they decided on exploring the relationship between empathy and evolution in the human race.[6]

Development

The trio became so excited with the concept they came up with, they decided to develop it on their own instead of pitching it to someone else and on October 2, 2012, Variety reported the Wachowskis had written three hour-long spec scripts and were set to shop them around L.A. the coming week, with the help of Straczynski's Studio JMS and Georgeville Television.[41] If the series was picked up, the siblings and Straczynski would share showrunner duties. Additionally the Wachowskis planned to direct a few episodes of the show if their schedule permitted it. According to Straczynski, the first meeting with potential buyers was with Netflix. The Wachowskis and Straczynski talked to them about subjects such as gender, identity, secrecy and privacy instead of pitching action or otherwise commercial aspects and, when the meeting was over, they worried they made a mistake.[42] By noon, and before they had the chance to pitch it to other outlets, such as HBO,[40] Netflix called them to preemptively offer to buy and produce the first season.[6] Netflix announced that they had ordered a 10-episode first season for the series on March 27, 2013.[2] Later, during filming,[43] because of the density of the scripts and the extended length of the first cut of the first episode, the showrunners and Netflix came to an agreement to extend the season to 12 episodes.[44]

Before filming began, Straczynski and the Wachowskis mapped out five seasons worth of stories for the series,[44] including the series' final episode.[45] Straczynski compiled a 30-page document detailing the key points of a hypothetical second season.[46] The actors cast were signed for five seasons. "We pitched it as a five-year story. We've mapped out five seasons of this thing, our actor deals are being made for five seasons, five or six depending on the breaks," said Straczynski.[47]

Comic book artist Steve Skroce, who has been collaborating with the Wachowskis since The Matrix on both film and comic book media, has created storyboards for the show.[48]

Writing

Initial writing was split between the Wachowskis and Straczynski. The Wachowskis wrote episodes one, two, three, seven and eight. Straczynski wrote episodes four, five, six, nine and ten. Then the Wachowskis rewrote Straczynski's scripts and vice versa. Straczynski said a good portion of the writing was done by just Lana and himself.[49] Straczynski believes writing with the Wachowskis helped mask each others' weaknesses. He recognizes action and plot as their biggest strengths but structure as their weakness. On the other hand he views himself as really good on structure but weak on action.[50]

Earlier versions of the story featured a sensate from Iraq and more about Whispers, the villain of the show. The show was transformed when the writers decided to limit the storytelling, with the exception of the opening scene of the first episode, to the perspective of the eight characters.[50] This means that every scene set in San Francisco must be about Nomi, in Chicago about Will and so on. Since the show begins with the characters not knowing what is happening to them and without being able to cut e.g. to the villains like a traditional show, the audience starts with the same questions and confusion as the characters do.[50][46] As the characters slowly begin to understand more about what's happening to them over the course of several episodes, the audience does as well, at the same pace. Straczynski notes this type of writing wouldn't work if they were writing for a traditional network. "The first episode is written in a way that you could never do a pilot. With pilots you have to set up all the rules and explain everything to hook people in." said Stranczynski. Instead, taking advantage of the binge-viewing model Netflix promotes, the series was written as a continuous 12 hour movie, making it possible to tell the story at a different pace.[45]

Lana Wachowski, a trans woman, has written her first transgender character in her career in the series: Nomi Marks. For that she partly used her own experiences. "It has some very intense, autobiographical scenes, and that was very difficult and surreal", said Lana.[51] Straczynski stated that like Lana felt the closest to Nomi, Wolfgang Bogdanow was the character he felt the closest to, because they both had a bad relationship with their respective fathers.[52] "Wolfgang was my true north in the storytelling." said Straczynski.[42] Straczynski did not reveal who was the character Lilly Wachowski felt the closest to during the writing process, saying it's up to her to do that.[42] Since then Lilly has come out as transgender too.[53] The beginning of her transitioning process preceded the release of the first season and it was something Nomi's actress was let know early on.[54][55]

Casting

For the roles of those characters living outside of America, the filmmakers wanted to assemble a cast of international actors that matched the nationality of their respective characters, if possible. For example Max Riemelt, Tina Desai and Doona Bae are from Berlin, Mumbai and Seoul like their respective characters.[46] Because the eight leads share the same birthday, the actors selected were all somewhere between mid-20s and mid-30s.[47] The filmmakers wanted to write a Chinese, Japanese or Korean character and since the Wachowskis had worked with Doona on Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending before, they decided on creating a Korean character for her.[46] Tuppence Middleton knew the Wachowskis were writing Sense8 while working with them on Jupiter Ascending but she didn't think they would ask her to play a role.[56] Daryl Hannah was brought in to read for Whispers, because they were thinking of making him an androgynous character at the time, but when she arrived she was told they'd like her to read for the role of Angelica.[57]

Filming

San Francisco
San Francisco

Chicago
Chicago


London
London
Nairobi
Nairobi


Seoul
Seoul
Mexico City
Mexico City

Reykjavík
Reykjavík


Berlin
Berlin


Mumbai
Mumbai

To properly tell the international aspects of the story, filming took place almost entirely on location around the globe in nine cities located in eight countries: Chicago, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Seoul, Reykjavík, Mexico City, Nairobi and Mumbai.[10][58] Production on the series began in June 2014 in San Francisco.[59] The filmmakers successfully negotiated with the organizers of the Clarion Alley Mural Project and select artists to feature their artwork in the show.[60] Shooting in Chicago began on July 9 and wrapped up on August 8,[61] with filming taking place both on location and at the Cinespace Film Studios.[59] During location scouting, the producers found the City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana and changed one site's description in the scripts to a church accordingly in order to fit that particular site into the filming.[62] They also shot some scenes in Chicago's Superdawg drive-through restaurant, while customers were being asked not to stare at the filming. Lana and Lilly Wachowski are frequent customers of the place.[63] Filming in Berlin was done partly in Babelsberg Studio.[64] A sequence in Nairobi required a crowd of 700 extras, 200 cars and a helicopter.[65] In Mumbai they shot a Bollywood dance number that was choreographed by Slumdog Millionaire's Longinus Fernandes.[66] The writers wanted to feature an event in each city.[67] They were able to schedule the Pride[68] with its Dykes on Bikes on the Dyke March[69][70] in San Francisco, the Fourth of July fireworks celebration in Chicago, and the Ganesha Chaturthi Hindu festival in Mumbai.[71] Additionally they recorded footage from the Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer performance[72][73] in San Francisco, a club event taking place at the KOKO in London,[74][75] and a real lucha libre (Mexican professional wrestling) event with the fighters wearing wrestling masks in Arena Naucalpan, in Mexico City.[71][76] Lastly the scenes where characters are flying on an airplane were recorded during the real flights the cast and crew had to do to get from London to Iceland.[71][67][77] On November 17, 2014. Straczynski wrote that the main unit shooting had wrapped, with only a few winter shots in Iceland remaining to be captured the next month.[78] These scenes were further delayed to mid-January 2015, until Iceland had the necessary amount of snow,[67][79] with the wrap party taking place in Reykjavík's Harpa Music and Concert hall on January 21, 2015.[80] By the end of the shooting, the filmmakers had completed 100,000 miles of flight time, or four times around the globe.[58]

Directing

The show's directors were attached to locations instead of episodes[81] and with all eight countries featured in every one of them, each episode ended up having multiple directors.[82] The Wachowskis were responsible for directorial duties in scenes shot in Chicago[59] and San Francisco[83] along with London and Iceland, two places which were initially announced to be helmed by Straczynski.[39] Straczynski eventually opted to offer them to the siblings because of the extensive action scenes involved in those locations[84] and instead focused his energy on post-production.[44] James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) worked on the Mexico City and Mumbai parts[67] along with some in Reykjavík[82] and German director Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas), whose Nairobi Half Life production impressed the Wachowskis, helmed Berlin[85][86] and Nairobi.[65] Dan Glass, who had been the visual effects supervisor for every Wachowski film since The Matrix Reloaded, reprised his role in Sense8 while also making his directorial debut in the Seoul part of the story.[87][88] Even though there were times that units located in different countries were simultaneously shooting, the Wachowskis would travel to the various locations and have collaborations with the attached directors.[18] Reportedly the Wachowskis directed such segments in locations where a different director was otherwise attached as the stunts the character of Silvestre performed for his action movie in Mexico City[89] and in Nairobi car chase scenes with the 'Van Damn' bus[65] along with a fight scene involving machetes.[90] In total, the Wachowskis were credited for directing seven episodes, McTeigue and Tykwer two each, and Glass one.[5]

Technical aspects

Netflix required from the production to shoot with 4K cameras to make the look of the show future-proof and John Toll who is credited as the main director of photography for overseeing the distinct look of the nine featured locations, made the decision to shoot by using mostly Sony's CineAlta PMW-F55 cameras.[18][91] Toll, once again collaborating with the Wachowskis and Glass after Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending,[92] personally handled the cinematography in Chicago,[93] San Francisco,[94] London,[95] Iceland,[96] and Seoul.[97] Toll's approach to shooting was to use a lot of Steadicam and hand-held partly out of the necessity to follow the faster schedule of a television production compared to the feature films he was used to working on. Additional cinematographers worked with the rest of the directors in the remaining locations and they used a similar shooting style because they were facing the same scheduling challenges.[18] McTeigue's cinematographer of choice for shooting in Mexico City[98] and Mumbai[67] was Danny Ruhlmann, who previously shot The Raven and Survivor for him.[99] Tykwer worked with Frank Griebe and Christian Almesberger for the Berlin[100] and Nairobi[101] scenes respectively. Griebe had previously shot seven feature films of Tykwer's including Cloud Atlas and Almesberger was the cinematographer of two films Tykwer had produced in Nairobi: Soul Boy and Nairobi Half Life.

Title sequence

For the series' almost two-minute long title sequence, Karin Winslow — wife of Lana Wachowski — rented a car and with the help of a camera assistant traveled in the eight featured countries and captured over a hundred shots. "My directive from Lana was to go out and describe each country by what you see; find the nuances, find the food, find what people are doing, get a feel for the place," said Winslow.[102] In the closing credits of each episode, she is credited for the "main title design".

Effects and post-production

Seoul unit director Dan Glass and Jim Mitchell were the visual effects supervisors of the series. An in-house VFX team was established in Chicago which completed over 700 shots. The major external VFX vendors were Locktix VFX (160-180 shots), Technicolor VFX (over 100 shots)[91] and Encore VFX. Additional work was done by Studio 8 FX, Trace VFX and Almost Gold.[88] Because of the series' tight budget and timeline the production made the decision to do most of the effects in-camera and only enhance them digitally where appropriate. In fact for a great number of shots which involved the sensates communicating and visiting each other telepathically the cast were simply moving in and out of the frame in timely fashion requiring no additional work.[71] According to Glass most of the VFX work that was done is invisible in the final show and consisted mostly of split-screens, crew and rig removal, weather augmentation and screen inserts. Of the more visible work done Glass provided the examples of age manipulation of actors, dramatic enhancement of the weather in the car scenes in Iceland, a few greenscreens and computer generated blades, blood and wounds.

Technicolor provided dailies and worked with cinematographer John Toll to color grade the show giving it a look which colorist Tony Dustin describes as "both real and surreal, with a slightly elevated color-saturation". The Wachowskis made the mandate for production to not "lock reels", as it's typically done on TV shows, but instead be able to tinker editorially with the series' narrative, look and tone up to release. They also wanted the color grading of the series to be done in the da Vinci Resolve software and be of theatrical feature film quality. Technicolor finished the show in 4K and delivered both 2K and 4K resolution masters.[91]

Music

Tom Tykwer and Johnny Klimek, who co-composed the score for Cloud Atlas and had a minor contribution in the soundtrack of The Matrix Revolutions as part of Pale 3, composed the series' music which was orchestrated by fellow Cloud Atlas collaborator Gene Pritsker.[1][103] The music was written before filming began[104] and it was recorded by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.[64] This way the production was able to play it back to the actors before shooting a scene. Tykwer, who has made the music for all of his movies this way, introduced to the Wachowskis the concept of first writing the music during preproduction of Cloud Atlas and the siblings have since commented they are not making a movie again a different way.[105] Ethan Stoller and Gabriel Isaac Mounsey, past collaborators of the Wachowskis and Tykwer, are credited for composing additional music and score. Stoller also acted as the series' music editor.[106]

The title of Episode 4 "What's Going On?" refers to lyrics in the song "What's Up?" by the 4 Non Blondes, which is featured in a scene where the main cast collectively sings it as their first shared experience together. After Nomi escaped from the hospital she said the lyrics were in her head all day and Amanita recognized the song saying it was the perfect soundtrack for a lobotomy.[107]

Marketing

In late July 2015, Netflix released a music track titled Brainwave Symphony on Spotify.[108] To produce it they subjected eight strangers to a series of various stimuli and they recorded their individual brainwaves using EEG sensors. After extracting a melody from each of them they arranged them in a way to produce a track which mirrors the escalating action of the season.[109][110] In early August 2015, Netflix made available Sense8: Creating the World, a half-hour web television documentary, shot around the world, about the making of Season 1 of the series.[111][71]

On May 3, 2016 publicity stills of the on-going production of Season 2 were posted online accompanied with a short introduction by Lana Wachowski.[112][113]

Reception

Critical reception and popularity

Critical reception of Sense8 has been generally favorable. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator website, reported a 67% critical approval rating with an average rating of 6/10 based on 43 reviews, and a 92% audience approval rating. The website's critical consensus reads, "Some of the scenarios border on illogical, but the diverse characters and the creative intersections between their stories keep the Wachowskis' Sense8 compelling."[114] On Metacritic the show is assigned a score of 63 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[115]

In a report released by Netflix it was discovered that at least 70% of the viewers that watched up to the third episode ended up watching the entire first season,[116] and Straczynski was told there are people that watch it "straight through – three, four, six times."[117] Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos praised the success of Sense8 in the up-and-coming French and German markets[118] but also globally.[119] Less than three days after its premiere, Variety reported that the show had been pirated more than half a million times, regardless of the series' digital distribution.[120]

Accolades

Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref(s)
2015 Camerimage First Look – TV Pilots Competition director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

cinematographer: Christian Almesberger, Frank Griebe, Danny Ruhlmann, John Toll

 Nominated
2016 Dorian Awards LGBTQ TV Show of the Year Nominated
Campy TV Show of the Year Nominated
GLAAD Media Award Outstanding Drama Series Won
HPA Awards Outstanding Color Grading – Television Tony Dustin Nominated
Location Managers Awards Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Television Series Marco Giacalone and Bill Bowling Won
Saturn Awards Best New Media Television Series Pending

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