Sense8

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 5, 2015
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Jun 5, 2015
    50
    Maybe if the individual fragments in Sense8 were better written, the uber-plot wouldn’t matter quite as much. The Sense8 stories are beautifully shot, including some fabulous action sequences; but they’re rooted in familiarity, formula, and cultural clichés.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Margaret Lyons
    Jun 4, 2015
    50
    The more you care about dialogue, the less you will like it. Visually, though, the show is mesmerizing and immersive, particularly in moments of either complete chaos (underground kick-fighting match, raaaah!) or shocking stillness. The performances, particularly Tuppence Middleton as our pixie DJ and Freema Agyeman as Nomi's girlfriend, are terrific, but they're also squandered on stories that lack any real depth or texture.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Jun 3, 2015
    50
    Brilliant as so much of Sense8 is, it’s also at brief times inexplicably lame.
  5. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Jun 3, 2015
    50
    A globe-spanning series that offers in ambition, action and visual panache what it lacks in coherence, fleshed-out characters and plausible dialogue.
  6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jun 5, 2015
    40
    The problem with Sense8 is that it’s glacially paced and not nearly as riveting as it thinks it is.
  7. Las Vegas Weekly
    Reviewed by: Josh Bell
    Jun 3, 2015
    40
    It’s a worldwide story that manages to look and feel completely mundane, with boring visuals and inconsistent performances.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    May 27, 2015
    40
    Sense8 becomes a pretty mundane, chaotic soap opera, following the lives of its various characters without doing much to advance what binds them.

Awards & Rankings

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#1 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015
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#47 Most Shared TV Season of 2015

User Reviews

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 873 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 705 out of 873
  2. Mixed: 56 out of 873
  3. Negative: 112 out of 873
  1. mag111
    Jun 6, 2015
    10
    very positively surprised Sense8, beginning is slow but from episode 5 is getting better and better and the last 2 ep are brilliant, there isvery positively surprised Sense8, beginning is slow but from episode 5 is getting better and better and the last 2 ep are brilliant, there is a perfect balance between action, character development, comedy (not much comedy but it's placed perfectly)… Full Review »
  2. ejarn
    Jun 6, 2015
    1
    Dear Sense8 Writers:

    The energy used in an attempt to be socially relevant should have been spent on character development and plot    Dear Sense8 Writers:

    The energy used in an attempt to be socially relevant should have been spent on character development and plot coherence. The constant moralizing about gender and sexuality does not come across as cutting-edge social commentary, but as hackneyed, narcissistic moral preening. Can someone please find me a lesbian couple whose pillow talk includes the phrase, "happy pride." Does no one proof this drivel before it goes into production? The only explanation for the average score on metacritic is that, apparently, many mainstream reviewers resonate with some of this pretentiousness.    … Full Review »
  3. critic12345
    Jun 6, 2015
    10
    I have never written a review before, but I had to for one simple reason. This is by far the best show I have ever seen. I'm not much for art,I have never written a review before, but I had to for one simple reason. This is by far the best show I have ever seen. I'm not much for art, but this show is exactly that, a piece of art. It's harsh but the reality is the people who give this show negative reviews don't understand the deeper messages this show is attempting to portray to the masses.

    Interconnectivity, the self, love, the problem with a world that lives unconscious. It is easy to study these things, but it's another thing to experience those states. That is exactly what this show does, it explores these different states and concepts in a symbolical way. And it's funny as **** haha.:) My hats go off to everyone who worked on that show-writers, directors, actors. They explored something far ahead of the masses understanding and helped people by introducing those concepts to the world.

    Most creative artwork i've ever seen. It's a show that makes you really feel, and the importance of feeling. Enjoy!    … Full Review »
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