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I’ve been hearing things about Sense8 for years, nothing specific just, ‘Damn, that was good, wish it hadn’t been cancelled!’ And that last part actively put me off, because things that get cancelled so often end badly, or don't end at all. But I finally got around to watching it.

I was not expecting the most adorable gay couple ever and their beard-turned-live-in-yaoi-fangirl.

I was not expecting m/m/f polyamory.

I was not expecting great trans rep and Freema Agyeman being an utterly awesome lesbian.

I was definitely not expecting telepathic eight person orgies 👀😀

And on top of all that, it WAS good. The queer perspective of the Wachowskis combined with the story-telling power of J Michael Straczynski. I wonder what the show could have been if they’d been given the full five years for JMS to tell a story Babylon 5 style? As it is, it gets an ending, but you can tell how much the pace changes in the second half of season two especially, compared to the leisurely set-up and trickling out of information that came before.

There's some unfortunate copaganda, which I suspect would be different if the show was conceived now, but definitely worth it.