Sense8

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A group of strangers’ lives intersect in unexpected ways. It’s one of the most elemental story setups that exists. Are we talking Lost? Speed? Contagion? Golden Girls? Or are we talking about the story of mankind itself?

One not-too-uncommon twist on the premise takes it abstract, ratcheting up the strangeness of the strangers and playing coy about how exactly they intersect.Crash, Babel, and the entire rom-com genre spawned by Love, Actually follow lives that touch one another only glancingly. A recent boomlet of novels, like Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks, hopscotch between characters separated by the places they live, the voices in which they speak, and the decades they’re born in. Often, the reader’s left to guess at why the various chapters from different points of view exist as part of the same book.

When they work, stories like these can make even the most jaded consumer of culture get a little giddy about humanity’s vastness and its interconnectedness. But to do so, each individual character’s story has to hold the reader or viewer’s interest. Some chapters of Cloud Atlasand Goon Squad could work as self-contained short stories. Some actually have.

Sense8, the new Netflix show from the Wachowskis (the siblings who created The Matrix) and J. Michael Straczynski (the showrunner for Babylon 5), would like to join this tradition. The Wachowskis already oversaw the big-budget 2012 adaptation of Cloud Atlas, which earnestly tried to evoke the magic of Mitchell’s novel, made up of disparate narratives that spanned from the 1800s to a future century. (It flopped.) Sense8 is all set in the present, but the premise is just as hydra-like: Eight random people scattered all over the globe—a cop in Chicago, a bus driver in Nairobi, a businesswoman in Seoul, etc.—find their minds suddenly linked in mysterious ways, for mysterious reasons.

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The Wachowskis’ new Netflix series certainly isn’t your average television show. A sprawling sci-fi ensemble concerning eight disparate strangers the world over who, after the suicide of a mysterious woman named Angel (Daryl Hannah), begin to experience a shared consciousness. There’s also some sort of good versus evil plot simmering way down beneath the pseudo-metaphysical surface of the otherwise nebulous storyline that concerns Naveen Andrews (Lost) and a bearded fellow who travels with heavily armed escorts. In other words, Sense8 carries the narrative complexity of Cloud Atlas to a format that (considering it gives the series 12 hours to tell its complex tale of identity across cultures) requires a lot of world building and explanation to not only get its point across, but to simply get the wheels on the massive sci-fi vehicle turning.

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