Netflix's Sense8: An overload of the senses.

Sensate: to feel or apprehend by means of the sense; to preceive. The Wachowskis' took a play on the word to create an overload of the senses and gave us Sense8. A smorgasbord of acting, directing, writing and editing can be found within this series. It really is a mind trip. I've already watched it twice and starting on my third go round.

Eight characters, all strangers to one another from all around the world, become linked; emotionally and mentally.  If any of you have ever tried to write, you know how hard it is to write for one character. Now imagine writing for eight characters, that take place in 9 locations around the world, sometimes all at the same time. Whaaat?! Yep. 9 locations. The continuity must have been a bitch. Props to the script supervisor, editors, costumers and prop master. Just thinking about gives me a panic attack. Anyway, I digress.

They, the Wachowski's, take a word (sensate) and create an entire world around it. One simple word becomes everything. The seris has such depth that I can't even begin to touch upon everything I noticed, in this post. I'll be making more posts as I watch it again, because I notice more and more every time I do.

If you have Netflix then give this series a go. No getting up to use the bathroom or listening from the other room while you are folding laundry. You have to sit and really watch it though. If you don't have Netflix then sign up for the 30 Day Trial and start watching. Yes, there are some goofy parts, but as a whole it's really worth watching. 

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Avid TV Show collector?

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You can browse dvds, vote on shows, get news on what's coming out. It's all things tv show related.

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Birth of an Addict.

I don't claim to be an expert on many things, but there's one thing I know a lot about. That one thing is film and tv. I watch entirely too much of all of it. I can't get enough.

I guess I could blame it on my mother's sister who, when I was a small child, took me to her set location where she was filming a short for her high school film class. Or I could blame it on my maternal side of the family loving to tell stories. Doesn't help that my mother is an artist.

Shit. Mother. It's totally your fault!

Growing up I was inundated with stories and art. Every time a family member would come over, it would be hours and hours of stories, laughter, and not a little bit of rum.
When I was a small child my mother would always be sitting in front of some sort canvas with a paint brush in her hand. She'd create something out of nothing. A still picture that told a story. Not to mention the museums we visited. Talk about visual overload on a developing brain.

How does one escape that fate? Hell, you don't. You find a way to keep up.
My way ended up being the art of motion pictures.  I couldn't be an engineer, a lawyer,  or computer programmer. Nope. I had to have the passion to make movies.

I took me about 37 years but I finally got into filmmaking, a newb screenwriter to be exact. During all of that time I kept up with film and tv. You name it and I knew something about it. I can't even begin to tell you the plot lines I've got stored in my temporal lobe. Decades of stories, colors, emotions are all encoded in my DNA.

That being said I've decided to gather what I've learned and stored and create an outlet for it.
This blog is for my rants, my love, and my knowledge of where to find more tv and movies.

As you can tell, film and movies are more than a passion. It's just...me.