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interim report
Aug. 24th, 2015 02:34 pmHaving recommended (at least the first season of) Orphan Black to receptive ears, I received in turn a recommendation for the new Netflix series, Sense8. Having watched the first episode, thoughts:
All style, no substance, though the style is very stylish. With eight (or nine) protagonists, there's no time to notice that not much happens to any one of them in one episode. The one chunk of expository lump was a sharp and unwelcome reminder that this is a Wachowskis project. However, the ways in which the storylines meet and intersect, to the startlement of the characters, is what I mean by "stylish" and is very well done indeed. The entire disappearance from contemporary TV of the heavy-handed muggishness with which such clues would have been dropped in decades past is one of the most pleasing artistic developments of my lifetime.
And yes, one of the protagonists is trans, and entirely sympathetic.
Is anything going to happen in this show? Keep tuning in and wait, I guess.
All style, no substance, though the style is very stylish. With eight (or nine) protagonists, there's no time to notice that not much happens to any one of them in one episode. The one chunk of expository lump was a sharp and unwelcome reminder that this is a Wachowskis project. However, the ways in which the storylines meet and intersect, to the startlement of the characters, is what I mean by "stylish" and is very well done indeed. The entire disappearance from contemporary TV of the heavy-handed muggishness with which such clues would have been dropped in decades past is one of the most pleasing artistic developments of my lifetime.
And yes, one of the protagonists is trans, and entirely sympathetic.
Is anything going to happen in this show? Keep tuning in and wait, I guess.
