So, I whined to my editor about Sense8 and told him that I’ve had enough of that piece of shite. His response was simple, “I need you to watch at least 3 more episodes. And then we’ll see.”
I don’t know if it’s wise to call your editor names, but I’m going to do it. Slack *beep*, why can’t he watch it and write about it. Why make me do it? This show sucks so much that I’m surprised Netflix didn’t pull the pin after they saw the first episode.
So, the story continues and it doesn’t makes much sense, timelines don’t make sense, the editing is failing already. The most obvious failing is that the DJ girl, at the end of the first episode is the only survivor after a shooting at some rich guy’s house. She wonders the street in a daze for pretty much an entire day. Ah… WTF? She’s got blood on herself and she’s wandering the streets of London.
This show misses the mark on so many levels. Constant flashbacks to fairly pointless times, it’s done in such an amateurish manner that it’d be laughable if it weren’t frustrating.
All I can say is that the story line continues to be the worst I’ve ever encountered. This episode, it’s a sex scene between a heterosexual couple, and it’s pretty decent sex. But it’s still shite, doesn’t even rile up enough interest for me to perve on the two hot sweaty bodies going at it.
This show is so shite that I want to take a baseball bat to my TV, so I can say, “I’m sorry Editor, my TV’s broken, I can’t review that stupid dumbass show anymore.”
As the storyline starts to reveal itself more and more, I am just hating it more. There is something about this show that is just lacking, I can’t quite pin point my finger on it right now, but whatever it’s missing, it’s making the show annoying.
The first half hour is so agonisingly slow that I just wanted to walk away from it, it was just torture, and no amount of pizza was going to make it bettr. Yes, I get it, you’re all for gay pride and the message is clear. But come on, stop jamming it down our throats. By forcing it down, you’re making it really uncool Wachowskis. Very uncool. I feel like you’re lecturing us on our prejudice and ignorance. Learn from Glee, that’s how you educate a vindictive audience and bring them to your side of the cause. The way you’re doing it, it’s kind of having the reverse effect.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for the LGBT community, I just think that this show in the first two episodes have set everyone back. It is obvious that you’re lecturing the audience, it is neither welcomed or wanted. Make it natural, is it so hard to do that? If you’re having problems with it, maybe it’s time to get in contact with a writer for Queer as Folks, they did a brilliant job. Whoever wrote these scenes in the first two episodes, needs to go back to school and figure it out. You’ve completely missed the mark.
The highlight of annoyance for me was the dancing at the engagement party. I love a good groom and groomsman dancing, and that part was cool. But when the bride to be gets up with her posse to dance in unison, you’re pushing the realm of believability. You’re making a Hollywood television series, not a Bollywood movie where sexual tension is danced out on screen rather than acted out with physical touch.
I think one of the biggest problems with this series is that it’s trying too hard with too many characters who do not interact with each other. There are too many storylines and none of them interesting.
I get it, you’re trying for a Heroes type of show, but you’re failing to make any of the characters really likeable or intriguing. I find all of them boring, there isn’t a single main character that I am invested in. After two hours, I find that the only person I am invested in on this show, is, well, is the Lesbian partner. And I’m so invested in the show, I don’t even know what her name is. That’s how much I care right now.
At the end of the first episode, we were left on a semi cliff hanger. I thought that perhaps they were going to up their game on episode 2. Sure, I wasn’t expecting Heroes, but I was expecting something better than the first episode. It turned out that the second was just more of the first. The crap fest just continued.
This show stinks, the odour is also starting to get worse with time, and I really don’t want to watch another one.
That said, I may just be hating it no matter what comes on screen, since I am annoyed, oh so very annoyed at this show.
In truth, the majority of what I felt for the first episode is what I feel for the second. So, I’m going to keep much of the rating the same. Worthless piece of crap. Netflix can do wrong. Not everything they produce is worth watching. I wish I had written about Grace and Frankie instead.
You can agree or disagree. I fear my intelligence is just not up to the challenge of this show. I shall remain in the stupid corner and rewatch Arrested Development for the 100th time.
Click here for the review of episode 3 and finale.
Rating: 2/10, only because there are some great eye candy. The plotline is agenda ridden and I’m a little tired of your drug messages. Get over yourselves, be responsible.
See it again: Oh please no, I really don’t want to have to sit through another episode of this crap. I really really don’t want to.
Worth my time: Give me back my time biatch! My normal brain just does not have the intelligence to understand this first episode. The dialogue gems continues, there doesn’t seem to be a sense of urgency with any of these characters. And ahh, if you thought you were going crazy and seeing hallucinations, you’d go around telling anybody who would listen about it, now, wouldn’t you? **eye roll**
Tell my mother: No. I am going to pretend like I never feasted by eyes on this shite.
Talking points: Quite a lot, but none of it good. Well, the opening scene was good, and quite intriguing, it’s just a pity that the rest of the episode was crazy slow and boring.
Annoyance factor: 10/10, read above. So many things about this show annoys me.
Ranter & Banter 
So, apparently my view is biased and I am not giving this show a chance. My “editor” has watched the second episode and denoted that, sure, there isn’t enough happening to keep him interested, there’s no hook to the show. But it’s not the crap heap that I see it. So, one more episode I must watch. And I need to be objective. Write more about characters and blah blah blah. I stopped listening when he said I had to watch another episode. Thank goodness I have a party to go to first, otherwise, I might have slammed down my phone (with candy crush playing in the background) and yell bloody murder.
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