Love in every hue

The audience ensured that after innumerable twists and turns, the finale of Sense8 managed to tie up all the loose ends

After the outcry from fans of Sense8, the Netflix Big-Budget show, the finale has been finally released. The show, which was being shot in different continents had overshot the budget and so had been shut down mid way. But when the finale was finally aired, it was well worth the wait and worth the treat.

The first season was about eight strangers who become ‘sensates’ — human beings who are mentally and emotionally linked. Their eight-way relationship is built on sympathy and love since the beginning and that is where the name of the serial was drawn from.

Be Nomi, a struggling transgender female, Kala, a woman struggling with the expectations of her culture, or any of the other struggling individuals, share the pain of sensate which always lead them to a wider, more encompassing acceptance of each others’ love.

One of the many clichés of this show is that love makes the pain worth enduring. But in the larger realm, it did prove to be true as it was love from this show’s fans that resurrected Sense8 from the dead.

For Netflix’s aspiring dramas like Sense8 it’s passage initially is misleading — the show appears to have a basic storyline which became increasingly complicated. For the audience, the choice was to surrender to it or run with it. But with the entanglements getting increasingly complicated, so much so that it became virtually impossible to pick up the threads, the audience, not surprisingly, proceeded to the other Netflix shows. Of course, Sense8 did receive wide applause for its portrayal of LGBTQ communities and characters so that it celebrated love in all structures. The finale didn’t disappoint as it gives as much screen time to settle the romance of the different pairs as it did to tie up loose ends in the sci-fi mythology.

It would be absolutely fair to say that Lana Wachowski-directed feature finale of sorts is a well-prepared conclusion to an ambitious merging of faith, friendship, science, sexuality, tribes and identity.

In the latest season — the focus is on the fight between a “cluster” of eight sensates and a villain sensate named Mr. Whispers (Terrence Mann), who fronts an organisation called BPO (Biologic Preservation Organisation) and wants to wipe out his own kind and some number of new forces that have risen.

The series has all the qualities of a modern age show for it is exceptional and has extraordinary people.