:Sense8

The story of Sense8 begins when the psychic connection of eight strangers of a variety of walks of life from different parts of the world is "birthed" by a woman called Angelica, who kills herself to avoid capture by a man called "Whispers". The eight discover that they form a cluster of "sensates": human beings who are mentally and emotionally linked, can sense and communicate with one another, and can share their knowledge, languages, and skills.

In the first season, the eight—Capheus, Sun, Nomi, Kala, Riley, Wolfgang, Lito, and Will—are shown trying to both live their everyday lives and figure out how and why they are connected. Meanwhile, a sensate named Jonas, who was involved with Angelica, comes to their aid, while the sinister Biologic Preservation Organization (BPO) and Whispers, a high-ranking sensate inside BPO, attempt to hunt them down.

In the second season, the eight have grown accustomed to their connection and help one another daily. They learn more about sensates and how to use (and temporarily suspend) their powers as well as the history and goals of BPO and Angelica's involvement with it. They also meet other sensates, not all of whom are friendly. At the same time, Jonas attempts to both aid them and look after himself after being captured by Whispers, who is now involved in a cat-and-mouse game with Will, each trying to outsmart the other.

In the series finale, the cluster and the people closest to them meet up in person to save Wolfgang who has been captured by BPO. To that end, the cluster has kidnapped Whispers and Jonas to use them as a bargaining chip and source of information, respectively. The heroes discover the personal motivations of the two men and Angelica, meet potential allies (both sensates and normal humans), and deal with the Chairman of BPO, who launches a global attack against sensates and their allies.

• Aml Ameen (season 1) / Toby Onwumere (season 2){{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/04/sense8-aml-ameen-toby-onwumere-recasting-wachowski-netflix-series-1201744886/ |title='Sense8': Aml Ameen Replaced By Toby Onwumere In Wachowskis' Netflix Series |date=April 26, 2016 |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |author1=Nellie Andreeva |author2=Mike Fleming Jr |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727112603/https://deadline.com/2016/04/sense8-aml-ameen-toby-onwumere-recasting-wachowski-netflix-series-1201744886/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} as Capheus "Van Damn" Onyango,{{cite web |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/sense8-season-2-spoilers-will-make-you-even-more-excited-to-revisit-this-netflix-drama-25453/ |title='Sense8' Season 2 Spoilers Will Make You Even More Excited To Revisit This Netflix Drama |author=Jefferson Grubbs |date=December 22, 2016 |website=Bustle |access-date=April 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409112423/https://www.bustle.com/p/sense8-season-2-spoilers-will-make-you-even-more-excited-to-revisit-this-netflix-drama-25453/ |archive-date=April 9, 2017 |url-status=live}} a matatu driver in Nairobi who is trying to earn money to buy HIV/AIDS medication for his mother.
• Bae Doona as Sun Baek, daughter of a powerful Seoul business executive and a burgeoning star in the underground kickboxing world.{{cite web|author=Emily Orley|date=May 28, 2015|title=Everything You Need To Know About The Eight Main Characters In "Sense8"|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyorley/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-eight-main-characters/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507131815/https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyorley/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-eight-main-characters/|archive-date=May 7, 2016|access-date=May 6, 2016|website=BuzzFeed}}{{cite interview |url=https://www.easternkicks.com/features/bae-doona-interview/ |title=Bae Doona interview: "I'm keen on comedy, so I'd really love to work with Stephen Chow!" |subject=Doona Bae |interviewer=Andrew Heskins |date=September 15, 2015 |work=easternKicks |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20171211232813/https://www.easternkicks.com/features/bae-doona-interview/ |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |url-status=live}}
• Jamie Clayton as Nomi Marks, a trans woman hacktivist and blogger living in San Francisco with her girlfriend Amanita (played by Freema Agyeman).{{cite interview |url=https://collider.com/sense8-jamie-clayton-talks-wachowskis-her-character-and-more/ |title=SENSE8: Jamie Clayton Talks Working with The Wachowskis, Her Character, and More |subject=Jamie Clayton |interviewer=Christina Radish |date=June 3, 2015 |work=Collider |publisher=Complex Media |access-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611235727/http://collider.com/sense8-jamie-clayton-talks-wachowskis-her-character-and-more/ |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |url-status=live}}
• Tina Desai as Kala Dandekar, a university-educated pharmacist and devout Hindu in Mumbai who is engaged to marry a man she learns to love.{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.in/content/tina-desai-makes-her-international-tv-debut/ |title=Tina Desai makes her international TV debut |author=Anjan Sachar |date=April 29, 2015 |website=Vogue India |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211232945/https://www.vogue.in/content/tina-desai-makes-her-international-tv-debut/ |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |url-status=live}}
• Tuppence Middleton as Riley "Blue" Gunnarsdóttir, an Icelandic DJ living in London who is trying to escape a tragic past.{{cite web |url=http://www.irishnews.com/arts/2015/06/19/news/rising-film-star-middleton-is-tupp-of-the-world-138543/ |title=Rising film star Middleton is Tupp of the world |website=The Irish News |date=June 19, 2015 |access-date=May 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507194729/http://www.irishnews.com/arts/2015/06/19/news/rising-film-star-middleton-is-tupp-of-the-world-138543/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}}
• Max Riemelt as Wolfgang Bogdanow, a Berlin locksmith and safe-cracker who has unresolved conflicts with his late father and participates in Russian organized crime.{{cite interview |url=https://www.serieslyawesome.tv/sense8-ein-interview/ |title=Sense8: ein Interview |subject=Max Riemelt |subject2=Daryl Hannah |subject3=Grant Hill |date=June 16, 2015 |work=serieslyAWESOME |access-date=June 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612153237/https://www.serieslyawesome.tv/sense8-ein-interview/ |archive-date=June 12, 2016 |url-status=live |language=de}}
• Miguel Ángel Silvestre as Lito Rodriguez, a closeted actor of Spanish background living in Mexico City with his boyfriend Hernando.{{cite interview |url=https://www.towleroad.com/2015/06/towleroad-interview-miguel-angel-silvestre-smoldering-star-of-sense8/ |title=Towleroad Interview: Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Smoldering Star of 'Sense8' |subject=Miguel Ángel Silvestre |interviewer=Bobby Hankinson |date=June 9, 2015 |work=Towleroad |publisher=Broadblast Corporation |access-date=August 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211113/https://www.towleroad.com/2015/06/towleroad-interview-miguel-angel-silvestre-smoldering-star-of-sense8/ |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}
• Brian J. Smith as Will Gorski, a Chicago police officer haunted by an unsolved murder from his childhood.{{cite interview |url=https://tvshowpatrol.com/interviews/brian-j-smith-connects-with-sense8-role-story/ |title=Brian J. Smith connects with 'Sense8' role, story |subject=Brian J. Smith |interviewer=Curt Wagner |date=June 22, 2015 |work=TV Show Patrol |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213170348/https://tvshowpatrol.com/interviews/brian-j-smith-connects-with-sense8-role-story/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=live}}

=== Other regulars===

• Freema Agyeman as Amanita "Neets" Caplan, Nomi's girlfriend, who later becomes an ally for the new sensates.{{cite interview |url=http://www.afterellen.com/tv/449237-freema-agyeman-talks-nomanita-working-wachowskis-sense8/ |title=Freema Agyeman talks Nomanita and working with the Wachowskis on "Sense8" |subject=Freema Agyeman |interviewer=Elaine Atwell |date=August 20, 2015 |work=AfterEllen |publisher=Evolve Media |access-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611224320/http://www.afterellen.com/tv/449237-freema-agyeman-talks-nomanita-working-wachowskis-sense8/ |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |url-status=dead}}
• Terrence Mann as Milton Bailey "Whispers" Brandt,{{Efn|Brandt is also known as "the cannibal", a reference to the fact that he killed his own cluster.{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/recap/sense8-season-2-episode-6/2/ |title=Sense8 recap: 'Isolated Above, Connected Below' |date=May 6, 2017 |author=Kyle Fowle |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109141014/https://ew.com/recap/sense8-season-2-episode-6/2/ |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}} He also uses many fake names, such as Dr. Matheson or Gibbons.{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/recap/sense8-season-2-premiere/2/ |title=Sense8 premiere recap: 'Who Am I?' |date=May 5, 2017 |author=Kyle Fowle |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109140714/https://ew.com/recap/sense8-season-2-premiere/2/ |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}|name=|group=}} a sensate who turned against his own kind and who is a high-ranking member of an organization determined to neutralize sensates, known as the Biologic Preservation Organization (BPO).
• Anupam Kher as Sanyam Dandekar, Kala's loving father, a chef and restaurant owner.{{cite web |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/anupam-kher-starts-shooting-for-sense8-season-two/ |title=Anupam Kher starts shooting for 'Sense8' season two |date=March 26, 2016 |work=The Indian Express |access-date=August 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211233/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/anupam-kher-starts-shooting-for-sense8-season-two/ |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}
• Naveen Andrews as Jonas Maliki, a sensate from a different cluster who wants to help the newly born cluster of sensates.{{cite interview |url=https://collider.com/sense8-naveen-andrews-talks-working-with-the-wachowskis-and-lost/ |title=SENSE8: Naveen Andrews Talks Working with the Wachowskis and LOST |subject=Naveen Andrews |interviewer=Christina Radish |date=June 6, 2015 |work=Collider |publisher=Complex Media |access-date=June 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611225004/http://collider.com/sense8-naveen-andrews-talks-working-with-the-wachowskis-and-lost/ |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |url-status=live}}
• Daryl Hannah as Angelica "Angel" Turing, a sensate from the same cluster as Jonas, who becomes the "mother" of the new sensates' cluster as she activates their psychic connection.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11456870 |title=Sense8: Making sense of it all |author=Lydia Jenkin |date=May 30, 2015 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=August 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211310/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11456870 |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}

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According to the Wachowskis, the origins of Sense8 date back several years before the announcement of the show to "a late-night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us".{{cite press release |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/only-on-netflix-sci-fi-giants-the-wachowskis-and-j-michael-straczynski-team-up-to-create-sense8-200215501.html |title=Only On Netflix: Sci-Fi Giants The Wachowskis And J. Michael Straczynski Team-Up To Create "Sense8" |date=March 27, 2013 |location=Beverly Hills, California |publisher=Netflix |agency=PR Newswire |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211233253/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/only-on-netflix-sci-fi-giants-the-wachowskis-and-j-michael-straczynski-team-up-to-create-sense8-200215501.html |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |url-status=live}} When deciding to create a television series, Lana chose to brainstorm ideas with Straczynski because of his extensive experience working with the format, by inviting him to her house in San Francisco.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbr.com/jms-discusses-collaborating-with-wachowskis-for-netflixs-sense8/ |title=JMS Discusses Collaborating With Wachowskis For Netflix's 'Sense8' |author=Chris Arrant |date=October 30, 2013 |website=CBR |publisher=Valnet |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213171326/https://www.cbr.com/jms-discusses-collaborating-with-wachowskis-for-netflixs-sense8/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite interview |url=https://collider.com/sense8-j-michael-straczynski-talks-collaborating-with-the-wachowskis/ |title=J. Michael Straczynski Talks Collaborating with The Wachowskis on SENSE8 |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Christina Radish |date=May 26, 2015 |work=Collider |publisher=Complex Media |access-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507145641/http://collider.com/sense8-j-michael-straczynski-talks-collaborating-with-the-wachowskis/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} After several days of discussion, they decided on creating a show that would explore the relationship between empathy and evolution in the human race, necessitating filming on location in several countries over the world.{{cite interview |url=http://www.awardsdaily.com/tv/interview-sense8-straczynski/ |title=Straczynski Talks 'Sense8' and the Outrageous Show's Diversity |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Jazz Tangcay |date=June 9, 2016 |work=AwardsDaily TV |access-date=June 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610215350/http://www.awardsdaily.com/tv/interview-sense8-straczynski/ |archive-date=June 10, 2016 |url-status=live}} The title of the show was thought up by Lana on their second day of brainstorming, as a play on the word sensate and the notion of eight main characters.{{cite interview |url=https://www.assignmentx.com/2015/j-michael-straczynski-on-sense8-exclusive-interview/ |title=SENSE8: J. Michael Straczynski talks Season 1- exclusive interview |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Abbie Bernstein |date=August 17, 2015 |work=Assignment X |publisher=Midnight Productions |access-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826200508/https://www.assignmentx.com/2015/j-michael-straczynski-on-sense8-exclusive-interview/ |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/06/05/sense8-netflix/ |title=8 Things to Help You Make Sense of 'Sense8' |author=John Jurgensen |date=June 5, 2015 |website=The Wall Street Journal |publisher=Dow Jones & Company |access-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826201110/https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/06/05/sense8-netflix/ |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |url-status=live}}

On October 2, 2012, Variety first reported the existence of the show. The Wachowskis and Straczynski had written three hour-long spec scripts, and were attempting to shop them around.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2012/tv/news/wachowskis-shopping-their-first-tv-series-1118060175/ |title=Wachowskis shopping their first TV series |date=October 2, 2012 |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=October 19, 2014 |author=Cynthia Littleton |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507143112/http://variety.com/2012/tv/news/wachowskis-shopping-their-first-tv-series-1118060175/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} Their first meeting with potential buyers was with Netflix. The Wachowskis and Straczynski talked to them about subjects such as gender, identity, secrecy, and privacy.{{cite interview |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/sense8-co-creator-j-michael-straczynski-on-how-netflixs-show-changed-him-and-could-change-television-61203/ |title='Sense8' Co-Creator J. Michael Straczynski on How Netflix's Show Changed Him, and Could Change Television |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Liz Shannon Miller |date=June 6, 2015 |work=Indiewire |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727115430/https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/sense8-co-creator-j-michael-straczynski-on-how-netflixs-show-changed-him-and-could-change-television-61203/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Netflix announced that they had ordered a 10-episode first season for the series on March 27, 2013, which during filming was extended to 12.{{cite news |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/andy-und-lana-wachowski-nerds-mit-zwoelfstoeckigen-gehirnen-13412132.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_0 |title=Andy und Lana Wachowski: Nerds mit zwölfstöckigen Gehirnen |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |newspaper=FAZ.NET |access-date=January 8, 2019 |trans-title=Andy and Lana Wachowski: Nerds With twelve-story Brains |language=de |author=Nina Rehfeld |date=February 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190108181114/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/andy-und-lana-wachowski-nerds-mit-zwoelfstoeckigen-gehirnen-13412132.html?printPagedArticle=true%23pageIndex_0 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |url-status=live}} Straczynski and the Wachowskis mapped out five seasons worth of stories for the series from the beginning, including the series' final episode.{{cite interview |url=https://archive.nerdist.com/exclusive-j-michael-straczynski-prepares-us-for-his-netflix-series-sense8/ |title=Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Prepares Us for His Netflix Series SENSE8 |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Joseph McCabe |date=June 6, 2015 |work=Nerdist |access-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512213933/https://archive.nerdist.com/exclusive-j-michael-straczynski-prepares-us-for-his-netflix-series-sense8/ |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |url-status=live}} Lilly Wachowski, after completing her gender transition, decided to take some time off and did not return as writer or director for the second season, although she remained active as co-creator.{{cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/lilly-wachowski-steps-away-from-sense8.html |title=Lilly Wachowski to Take a Backseat on Sense8 Season Two |author=Jackson McHenry |website=Vulture |publisher=New York Media |date=May 26, 2016 |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109135212/https://www.vulture.com/2016/05/lilly-wachowski-steps-away-from-sense8.html |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Producer Roberto Malerba has disclosed that the first season had an average budget of about $4.5 million per episode, and the second season $9 million per episode.{{cite web |url=https://screencrush.com/sense8-season-3-renewal-chances/ |title='Sense8' Star Rallies Support for Season 3 Renewal Chances |author=Kevin Fitzpatrick |date=May 30, 2017 |website=ScreenCrush |publisher=Townsquare Media |access-date=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316101127/https://screencrush.com/sense8-season-3-renewal-chances/ |archive-date=March 16, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite interview |last=Malerba |first=Roberto |interviewer=Andrea Rocchetta |title=Sense8 producer: 'If renewed, season 3 of Sense8 likely to be its last' |url=https://www.newsflixitalia.com/sense8-producer-if-renewed-season-3-of-sense8-likely-to-be-its-last/ |access-date=May 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531104407/http://newsflix.altervista.org/sense8-producer-if-renewed-season-3-of-sense8-likely-to-be-its-last/ |archive-date=May 31, 2017 |url-status=live |work=Newsflix |date=May 11, 2017}}

Initial writing for the first season was split between the Wachowskis and Straczynski.{{cite interview |url=http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/13-questions-about-netflixs-new-series-sense8-answered/ |title=13 Questions About Netflix's New Series Sense8 Answered |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Sarah Ricard |date=June 3, 2015 |work=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=June 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507192707/http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/13-questions-about-netflixs-new-series-sense8-answered/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} The show was transformed when they decided to limit the storytelling, with the exception of the opening scene of the first episode, to the perspective of the eight characters.{{cite interview |url=http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-j-michael-straczynski/ |title=Interview: J. Michael Straczynski |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |work=Lightspeed |access-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507193017/http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-j-michael-straczynski/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} Lana Wachowski, a trans woman, has written her first transgender character in her career in the series: Nomi Marks. For that she partly used her own experiences.{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/May-2015/Wachowski-Netflix-Series-Sense8/ |title=The Wachowski Netflix Series Sense8 Finally Has a Trailer |author=Emmet Sullivan |date=May 7, 2015 |website=Chicago |publisher=Tribune Publishing |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109161341/https://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/May-2015/Wachowski-Netflix-Series-Sense8/ |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}} Jamie Clayton, who plays Nomi, has provided the example of a scene where a young Nomi is bullied by boys in a gym shower, as a scene that was based on experiences from Lana's life.{{cite web |url=https://www.etonline.com/features/216826_jamie_clayton_talks_filming_sense8_and_feeling_like_selena_gomez/ |title=EXCLUSIVE: The Moment Filming 'Sense8' That Made Jamie Clayton Feel Like Selena Gomez |author=Stacy Lambe |date=May 5, 2017 |website=Entertainment Tonight |publisher=CBS Television Distribution |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727123539/https://www.etonline.com/features/216826_jamie_clayton_talks_filming_sense8_and_feeling_like_selena_gomez/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Freema Agyeman, who plays Nomi's girlfriend Amanita, has shared that her character was based heavily on Lana's wife, Karin Winslow.{{cite news |url=https://www.afterellen.com/tv/508593-tidbits-carmilla-gillian-anderson-fan-expo-canada/2 |title=Tidbits from "Carmilla," Gillian Anderson and more at Fan Expo Canada |author=Daniela Costa |date=September 7, 2016 |website=AfterEllen |publisher=TotallyHer Media |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109161504/https://www.afterellen.com/tv/508593-tidbits-carmilla-gillian-anderson-fan-expo-canada/2 |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Unlike the first season, where the Wachowskis and Straczynski split the number of scripts in half and worked remotely from each other, writing for the second season was performed by Lana and Straczynski by collaborating inside a shared writers' room. David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon worked as additional writers on the second season and were credited as "consultants".{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-transformative-experience-of-writing-for-sense8/ |title=The Transformative Experience of Writing for "Sense8" |author=Aleksandar Hemon |date=September 27, 2017 |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=September 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927182759/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-transformative-experience-of-writing-for-sense8/ |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite interview |url=http://www.novilist.hr/Kultura/Knjizevnost/Aleksandar-Hemon-Sega-i-tuga-su-meni-nerazdvojne-kao-i-mnogim-Bosancima/ |title=Aleksandar Hemon: 'Šega i tuga su meni nerazdvojne, kao i mnogim Bosancima' |subject=Aleksandar Hemon |interviewer=Vanja Kulaš |date=May 20, 2017 |work=Novi list |access-date=May 25, 2017 |language=hr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525165204/http://www.novilist.hr/Kultura/Knjizevnost/Aleksandar-Hemon-Sega-i-tuga-su-meni-nerazdvojne-kao-i-mnogim-Bosancima/ |archive-date=May 25, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite episode |title=Happy F*cking New Year |series=Sense8 |season=2 |number=1 |network=Netflix |date=December 23, 2016}} They spent a week in September 2015 with Lana, Straczynski, and script supervisor Julie Brown, proposing to them situations to be further developed by Lana and Straczynski. Later, once filming began, Lana did a lot of rewrites on a daily basis as she got inspired by the locations, actors, and so on, even on the set.{{cite web |url=https://theknockturnal.com/exclusive-cast-talks-sense8-season-2-nyc-premiere/ |title=Exclusive: Cast Talks 'Sense8' Season 2 At NYC Premiere |date=April 29, 2017 |website=The Knockturnal |access-date=April 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170429111707/https://theknockturnal.com/exclusive-cast-talks-sense8-season-2-nyc-premiere/ |archive-date=April 29, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKuRxTclEI | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/2rKuRxTclEI| archive-date=2021-11-07 | url-status=live|title=SENSE8 {{!}} Entrevista com Tina Desai, Miguel Ángel Silvestre e Brian J. Smith |author=Carol Moreira |date=December 22, 2016 |quote=Carol Moreira: And they rewrite a lot, on set, right? That must be crazy. / Miguel Ángel Silvestre: Constantly. / Brian J. Smith: This year, especially. This year there [were] a lot of rewrites. It sort of felt like the scripts we got in the beginning were like scaffolds, and then Lana was filling in the brick and the mortar and the furniture and the windows, as we shot. You know what I mean? / Miguel Ángel Silvestre: Yeah, totally. / Tina Desai: There [were] city rewrites, there were weekly rewrites, there were daily rewrites. It was great fun. Trying to keep up with everything. |via=YouTube |time=01:17 |access-date=July 7, 2017}}{{cbignore}}{{cite magazine |author=Poppy-Jay Palmer |title=Sense8 - Sex And Drugs And Heart And Soul |pages=55–56 |issue=131 |magazine=SciFiNow |quote=Throughout the production of Season Two, [Brian J. Smith] tells us, the writer/director had developed a tendency to show up on set just before a scene was about to shoot with a set of completely new script pages and edits... The method in question is the fact that inspiration can strike at any moment. "Lana gets inspiration from everywhere and she can sometimes be spontaneous," explains Doona Bae, who plays kickboxer Sun. "Whenever she gets to set, everything can change. You need to be really flexible. It's good training for all of us. [You have to be able to] adjust to any situation." |publisher=Kelsey Media}} When the series finale special was announced, Lana, Mitchell, and Hemon returned as writers.

On June 20, 2014, Deadline Hollywood announced the cast of the eight lead characters, along with Freema Agyeman, Naveen Andrews, Daryl Hannah, Alfonso Herrera, Eréndira Ibarra, and Terence Mann.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2014/06/netflix-wachowski-series-sense8-cast-naveen-andrews-darryl-hannah-794011/ |title=Cast Set, Plot Revealed For Wachowskis' Netflix Globe-Spanning Series 'Sense8' |author=Nellie Andreeva |date=June 20, 2014 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727112917/https://deadline.com/2014/06/netflix-wachowski-series-sense8-cast-naveen-andrews-darryl-hannah-794011/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} For the roles of those characters living outside of America, the filmmakers wanted to assemble a cast of international actors that matched the nationality of their respective characters, if possible. For example, Doona Bae, Tina Desai, and Max Riemelt are from Seoul, Mumbai, and Berlin like their respective characters.{{cite interview |url=https://uproxx.com/hitfix/j-michael-straczynski-says-viewers-have-evolved-to-be-ready-for-sense8/ |title=J. Michael Straczynski says viewers have evolved to be ready for 'Sense8' |interviewer=Daniel Fienberg |date=June 5, 2015 |work=HitFix |publisher=Uproxx |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727123744/https://uproxx.com/hitfix/j-michael-straczynski-says-viewers-have-evolved-to-be-ready-for-sense8/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Jamie Clayton is a trans woman like the character she plays. In November, Deadline Hollywood wrote that Christian Oliver had joined the cast as a recurring villain.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2014/11/christa-b-allen-joins-abc-familys-baby-daddy-christian-oliver-cast-in-netflixs-sense-8-1201272464/ |title=Christa B. Allen Joins ABC Family's 'Baby Daddy'; Christian Oliver Cast In Netflix's 'Sense 8' |date=November 3, 2014 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727114020/https://deadline.com/2014/11/christa-b-allen-joins-abc-familys-baby-daddy-christian-oliver-cast-in-netflixs-sense-8-1201272464/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}

On April 26, 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Aml Ameen abruptly left production a couple of episodes into filming of the second season over a conflict with Lana Wachowski that started during the table read for the season and progressively got worse. Subsequent to Ameen's departure, the role of Capheus was recast to Toby Onwumere after a seven-day auditioning process.{{cite web |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/sense8-cast-swoops-into-chicago-for-second-season-filming/ |title='Sense8' cast swoops into Chicago for second season filming |author=Talia Beechick |date=July 7, 2016 |website=Chicago Sun-Times |publisher=Sun-Times Media Group |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214104551/https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/sense8-cast-swoops-into-chicago-for-second-season-filming/ |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |url-status=live}} Earlier in April, Kick Gurry revealed he had been cast in the second season.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dongroves/2016/04/07/the-wachowskis-and-sense8-season-2-an-insiders-perspective/ |title=The Wachowskis And 'Sense8' Season 2: An Insider's Perspective |date=April 7, 2016 |author=Don Groves |website=Forbes |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160824110940/http://www.forbes.com/sites/dongroves/2016/04/07/the-wachowskis-and-sense8-season-2-an-insiders-perspective/%2358dd3a7c65b0 |archive-date=August 24, 2016 |url-status=live}} In May, Deadline Hollywood reported Ben Cole had been cast as Todd, a sensate who would rather be "normal".{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/sense8-cast-ben-cole-alexander-dipersia-good-girls-revolt-1201762383/ |title='Sense8' Casts Ben Cole; Alexander DiPersia Joins 'Good Girls Revolt'|author=Denise Petski |date=May 25, 2016 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727114214/https://deadline.com/2016/05/sense8-cast-ben-cole-alexander-dipersia-good-girls-revolt-1201762383/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} In September, Sylvester McCoy reportedly revealed he filmed three or four episodes of the second season.{{cite web |url=http://www.mymbuzz.com/2016/09/24/doctor-whos-sylvester-mccoy-lands-role-in-netflix-series-sense8/ |title=Doctor Who's Sylvester McCoy Lands Role In Netflix Series Sense8 |author=Dave Golder |date=September 24, 2016 |website=MyM BUZZ |access-date=September 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924231830/http://www.mymbuzz.com/2016/09/24/doctor-whos-sylvester-mccoy-lands-role-in-netflix-series-sense8/ |archive-date=September 24, 2016 |url-status=dead}}

To properly tell the international aspects of the story, filming for Sense8 took place almost entirely on location around the globe. In the first season, filming took place in nine cities located in eight countries: Berlin, Chicago, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nairobi, Reykjavík, San Francisco, and Seoul.{{cite interview |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-wachowskis-say-they-filmed-a-live-birth-for-their-t-1683307179/ |title=The Wachowskis Say They Filmed A Live Birth For Their TV Show Sense8 |subject=The Wachowskis |interviewer=Meredith Woerner |date=February 2, 2015 |work=io9 |publisher=Gizmodo Media Group |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211233457/https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-wachowskis-say-they-filmed-a-live-birth-for-their-t-1683307179 |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |url-status=live}} Production began on June 18, 2014, in San Francisco.{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/The-Wachowskis-Sense8-Netflix-Series-San-Francisco-263721841.html |title=The Wachowskis Begin Filming of New Netflix Series, Sense8, in San Francisco |author=Josh Keppel |date=June 18, 2014 |website=NBC Bay Area |publisher=NBCUniversal |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213165706/https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/The-Wachowskis-Sense8-Netflix-Series-San-Francisco-263721841.html |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=live}} The writers wanted to feature an event in each city.{{cite interview |url=https://apdg.org.au/2015/07/interview-hugh-bateup-a-p-d-g-production-designer-sense8/ |title=INTERVIEW – HUGH BATEUP a.p.d.g – Production Designer – SENSE8 |subject=Hugh Bateup |date=July 28, 2015 |work=Australian Production Design Guild |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831105326/https://apdg.org.au/2015/07/interview-hugh-bateup-a-p-d-g-production-designer-sense8/ |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |url-status=live}} They were able to schedule the Pride{{cite web |url=http://www.missionmission.org/2014/06/29/wachowskis-sense8-shooting-at-pride/ |title=Wachowski's Sense8 shooting at Pride |date=June 29, 2014 |author=Ariel Dovas |website=Mission Mission |access-date=October 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508012433/http://www.missionmission.org/2014/06/29/wachowskis-sense8-shooting-at-pride/ |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |url-status=live}} scenes with its Dykes on Bikes on the Dyke March{{cite web |url=http://www.demotix.com/news/5129692/wachowskis-shoot-scenes-sense8-dyke-march-san-francisco/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706224510/http://www.demotix.com/news/5129692/wachowskis-shoot-scenes-sense8-dyke-march-san-francisco/ |title=The Wachowskis shoot scenes for Sense8 at Dyke March in San Francisco |date=28 June 2014 |author=Steve Rhodes |archive-date=July 6, 2015 |website=Demotix |access-date=March 1, 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-59901609/the-wachowskis-shoot-scenes-for-sense8-at/ |title=The Wachowskis shoot scenes for Sense8 at Dyke March in San Francisco |website=Corbis |access-date=October 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204044/http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-59901609/the-wachowskis-shoot-scenes-for-sense8-at/ |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=dead}} in San Francisco, the Fourth of July fireworks celebration in Chicago, and the Ganesha Chaturthi Hindu festival in Mumbai.{{cite web |url=https://www.netflix.com/title/80062064/ |title=Sense8: Creating the World |website=Netflix |access-date=August 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150824023714/https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80062064 |archive-date=August 24, 2015 |url-status=live}} Filming wrapped in Iceland on January 21, 2015.{{cite web |url=https://icelandmag.is/article/sense8-throws-a-wrap-party-harpa-music-hall/ |title=Sense8 throws a wrap party at Harpa music Hall |date=January 22, 2015 |work=Iceland Magazine |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831104037/https://icelandmag.is/article/sense8-throws-a-wrap-party-harpa-music-hall/ |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |url-status=live}} By the end of the shooting, the filmmakers had completed {{Convert|100000|mi||abbr=}} of flight time, or four times around the globe.

For the second season, production credited 16 cities located in 11 countries for having been part of the filming.{{cite tweet |number=863046939360849920 |user=sense8 |title=11 countries. 16 cities. This is the Sense8 experience. 🌎 |date=May 12, 2017 |access-date=May 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513011349/https://twitter.com/sense8/status/863046939360849920/ |archive-date=May 13, 2017 |url-status=live}} The major locations they filmed in include all of the first season's except Reykjavík, and the following new ones: Amsterdam, Argyll, Chippenham, Los Angeles, Malta, Positano, Redwoods, and São Paulo. Production start for the main unit of the second season was given an expected date of March 2016,{{cite interview |url=https://thefilmstage.com/features/john-toll-talks-adjusting-for-the-small-screen-sense8-the-wachowskis-more/ |title=John Toll Talks Adjusting for the Small Screen, 'Sense8,' the Wachowskis & More |subject=John Toll |interviewer=Nick Newman |date=November 24, 2015 |work=The Film Stage |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509123101/https://thefilmstage.com/features/john-toll-talks-adjusting-for-the-small-screen-sense8-the-wachowskis-more/ |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |url-status=live}} but a separate shoot involving the principal actors began on December 30, 2015, in Berlin, to capture footage during the Christmas holidays.{{cite tweet |number=682169112479567872 |user=tinadesai07 |title=Sense8 season2 day 1 shot 1!!! Here we goooo!!!! |author=Tina Desai |author-link=Tina Desai |date=December 30, 2015 |access-date=December 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509133424/https://twitter.com/tinadesai07/status/682169112479567872/ |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite podcast |url=https://ascmag.com/podcasts/sense8-john-toll-asc/ |title=Sense8 / John Toll, ASC, Episode #79 |time=32:51 |author=Jim Hemphill |author-link=Jim Hemphill |quote=John Toll: So season 2, we started in Berlin, and actually, one interesting aspect of season 2 [is] that the first two episodes of season 2 were actually shot in the winter. So we had a seasonal change. So we went to Berlin on New Years Eve [2015], shot in Berlin on New Years Eve, that was another big crowd event we sort of integrated ourselves into. |work=American Cinematographer |publisher=American Society of Cinematographers |date=May 22, 2017 |access-date=December 14, 2017}}{{cite tweet |number=677686834613379073 |user=straczynski |title=@JanMSchroeder It's a separate shoot to grab footage during the holiday, not the start of full-on main unit shooting. |date=December 17, 2015 |author=J. Michael Straczynski |author-link=J. Michael Straczynski |access-date=December 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509132830/https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/677686834613379073/ |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |url-status=live}} Main unit filming resumed in Berlin in the middle of March 2016.{{cite web |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article207183749/In-Wilmersdorf-schneits-fuer-Netflix.html |title=In Wilmersdorf schneit's für Netflix |author=Martin Nejezchleba |date=March 13, 2016 |website=Berliner Morgenpost |access-date=August 22, 2017 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509124124/http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article207183749/In-Wilmersdorf-schneits-fuer-Netflix.html |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |url-status=live}} In São Paulo, they filmed unrehearsed in front of a crowd of millions in its 20th Gay Pride Parade.{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/sense8-season-2-sao-paolo-gay-pride-lito-coming-out-1201813247/ |title='Sense8': Inside the Last-Minute Scramble to Film at the Biggest Gay Pride Celebration in the World |author=Liz Shannon Miller |date=May 5, 2017 |website=Indiewire |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727115626/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/sense8-season-2-sao-paolo-gay-pride-lito-coming-out-1201813247/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} In Amsterdam, they were the first production to film in the Rijksmuseum.{{cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/ACLUofIllinois/videos/vb.6709500997/10154569512905998/ |title=Lana Wachowski Q&A at the Sense8 season 2 preview at the Music Box Theatre benefitting the ACLU of Illinois. |time=19:34 |quote=Lana Wachowski: We shot that in the Rijksmuseum. We shot Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum. We are the first production company that shoots in that museum. |date=April 23, 2017 |author=American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois |type=Recording |via=Facebook |access-date=April 25, 2017}} On September 19, 2016, with the completion of the Malta shoot, filming for the second season came to an end.{{cite tweet |user=MPC_UK |author=Motion Picture Capital |number=777934880357421057 |title=Congratulations to cast & crew for wrapping up the incredible achievement / feat of endurance that is filming #Sense8Season2! |date=September 19, 2016 |access-date=September 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919232653/https://twitter.com/MPC_UK/status/777934880357421057/ |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite tweet |user=BrianJacobSmith |author=Brian J. Smith |author-link=Brian J. Smith |number=778147426154717184 |title=That's a wrap on @sense8 season 2. It was the adventure of a lifetime. |date=September 20, 2016 |access-date=September 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920082818/https://twitter.com/BrianJacobSmith/status/778147426154717184/ |archive-date=September 20, 2016 |url-status=live}} Overall, the cast and crew flew in excess of {{Convert|250000|mi||abbr=}} to complete the season.{{cite web |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/story/netflix-drama-sense8-gives-us-some-serious-wanderlust/ |title=Netflix Drama 'Sense8' Gives Us Some Serious Wanderlust |author=Nick Pachelli |date=May 3, 2017 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214111946/https://www.cntraveler.com/story/netflix-drama-sense8-gives-us-some-serious-wanderlust/ |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |url-status=live}} Filming for the series finale took place in Berlin, Brussels, Naples, and Paris.{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/sense8-series-finale-writers-lana-wachowski-david-mitchell-locations-1201880470/ |title='Sense8' Series Finale Special: Screenwriters and Potential Locations Revealed |date=September 26, 2017 |author=Liz Shannon Miller |website=Indiewire |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727115746/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/sense8-series-finale-writers-lana-wachowski-david-mitchell-locations-1201880470/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Production began in Berlin on October 2, 2017.{{cite web |url=https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/televisao/transexual-de-sense8-critica-a-globo-por-escalar-atriz-para-papel-de-ivan--17124 |title=Transexual de Sense8 critica a Globo por escalar atriz para o papel de Ivan |author=Marcela Bonazzi |date=October 5, 2017 |website=Notícias da TV |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109161625/https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/televisao/transexual-de-sense8-critica-a-globo-por-escalar-atriz-para-papel-de-ivan--17124 |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live |language=pt}}{{cite web |url=https://www.reforma.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=1200179&v=2&md5=33acaf083d99686c1f4ef775065f56b0&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe/ |title=Crean final épico |author=Ana Cristina Vargas |date=September 2, 2017 |website=Reforma |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727123254/https://www.reforma.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=1200179&v=2&md5=33acaf083d99686c1f4ef775065f56b0&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe%2F |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live |language=es }} In Paris, they filmed a four-minute fireworks show near the Eiffel Tower.{{cite news |url=https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Midnight-fireworks-provoke-terror-fears/ |title=Midnight fireworks provoke terror fears |date=October 23, 2017 |website=The Connexion |access-date=October 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026215721/https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Midnight-fireworks-provoke-terror-fears/ |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |url-status=live |last1=France |first1=Connexion }} Filming wrapped in Berlin on November 12, 2017.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmjournal.com/camerimage-2017-inspires-some-lively-discussions/ |title=Camerimage 2017 inspires some lively discussions |author=Daniel Eagan |date=November 27, 2017 |website=Film Journal International |access-date=December 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206220017/http://www.filmjournal.com/camerimage-2017-inspires-some-lively-discussions/ |archive-date=December 6, 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18668750.html |title=Sense8, la fin de tournage célébrée par les acteurs |website=AlloCiné |date=November 14, 2017 |access-date=November 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114220951/http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18668750.html |archive-date=November 14, 2017 |url-status=live |language=fr}}

Netflix required the production to shoot with 4K resolution cameras to make the look of the show future-proof. During the first season, cinematographer John Toll, once again collaborating with the Wachowskis after Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending,{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/awards/asc-career-honoree-john-toll-learned-from-best-1201703932/ |title=ASC Career Honoree John Toll Learned From the Best |author=David Heuring |date=February 12, 2016 |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=May 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509184050/http://variety.com/2016/film/awards/asc-career-honoree-john-toll-learned-from-best-1201703932/ |archive-date=May 9, 2016 |url-status=live}} personally handled the cinematography in San Francisco, Chicago, London, Iceland, and Seoul.{{cite podcast |url=https://ascmag.com/podcasts/sense8-john-toll-asc/ |title=Sense8 / John Toll, ASC, Episode #79 |time=05:01 |quote=John Toll: I worked with Lana and Lilly Wachowski on all the cities they directed, which was: San Francisco, Chicago, London, Iceland, and Seoul. |author=Jim Hemphill |author-link=Jim Hemphill |work=American Cinematographer |publisher=American Society of Cinematographers |date=May 22, 2017 |access-date=December 14, 2017}} In the second season he handled the majority of the locations.{{cite podcast |url=https://ascmag.com/podcasts/sense8-john-toll-asc/ |title=Sense8 / John Toll, ASC, Episode #79 |time=35:45 |quote=John Toll: So [what we shot first] was the New Years Eve Berlin [parts of the] show. We took a break, then we came back in March, and then we started the full season 2 in March. We started in Mumbai, my unit with Lana... we went to Positano, Italy, then to San Francisco, in LA, ...São Paulo..., ...Chicago... |author=Jim Hemphill |author-link=Jim Hemphill |work=American Cinematographer |publisher=American Society of Cinematographers |date=May 22, 2017 |access-date=December 14, 2017}} Additional cinematographers worked with the rest of the directors in the remaining locations. James McTeigue worked with Danny Ruhlman, and Tom Tykwer worked with Frank Griebe and Christian Almesberger.{{cite web |url=https://instagram.com/p/4NJ6AEQEHH/ |title=In the line of fire. #Sense8 #BTS |via=Instagram |access-date=June 26, 2015 |date=June 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160824115305/https://www.instagram.com/p/4NJ6AEQEHH/ |archive-date=August 24, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pro.sony.eu/pro/lang/en/eu/article/broadcast-products-netflix-sense8-nairobi-with-f55/ |title=Christian Almesberger: making Sense8 in Nairobi with the F55 |website=Sony |access-date=May 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515190804/https://www.pro.sony.eu/pro/lang/en/eu/article/broadcast-products-netflix-sense8-nairobi-with-f55/ |archive-date=May 15, 2016 |url-status=dead}} Toll returned as cinematographer for the series finale, teaming up again with Lana.

Toll's cinematography in the third episode of the second season was recognized with a nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour) during the 69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

The show's directors were attached to locations instead of episodes{{cite tweet |user=straczynski |number=608139836961099776 |title=@sense8linked Bear in mind eps weren't assigned to directors, cities were, so Tom's stuff in Nairobi/Berlin is in all of the eps. |author=J. Michael Straczynski |author-link=J. Michael Straczynski |date=June 8, 2015 |access-date=June 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508205713/https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/608139836961099776/ |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |url-status=live}} and with several countries appearing in every episode, in reality none of them has a singular director.{{cite interview |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/444671-interview-director-james-mcteigue-on-survivor-and-netflixs-sense8/ |title=Interview: Director James McTeigue on Survivor and Netflix's Sense8 |subject=James McTeigue |work=ComingSoon.net |publisher=Mandatory.com |interviewer=Edward Douglas |date=May 29, 2015 |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109161854/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/444671-interview-director-james-mcteigue-on-survivor-and-netflixs-sense8/ |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}} During the first season, the Wachowskis were responsible for directorial duties in scenes shot in Chicago,{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-sense-8-filming-in-chicago-netflix-wachowski-20140707-column.html |title=Netflix's 'Sense8' begins filming in Chicago this week |author=Luis Gomez |work=Chicago Tribune |publisher=Tribune Publishing |date=July 7, 2014 |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831110751/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-sense-8-filming-in-chicago-netflix-wachowski-20140707-column.html |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |url-status=live}} San Francisco,{{cite web |url=https://missionlocal.org/2014/06/wachowskis-filming-in-clarion-alley-for-new-series/ |title=Netflix Filming in Clarion Alley for New Series |author=Joe Rivano Barros |date=June 20, 2014 |website=Mission Local |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508201848/http://missionlocal.org/2014/06/wachowskis-filming-in-clarion-alley-for-new-series/ |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |url-status=live}} London, and Iceland.{{cite interview |url=https://www.cbr.com/j-michael-straczynski-calls-dream-police-back-into-action-updates-on-sense8/ |title=J. Michael Straczynski Calls "Dream Police" Back into Action, Updates on "Sense8" |subject=J. Michael Straczynski |interviewer=Casey Gilly |date=May 6, 2014 |work=CBR |publisher=Valnet |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213171424/https://www.cbr.com/j-michael-straczynski-calls-dream-police-back-into-action-updates-on-sense8/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=live}} McTeigue worked on the Mexico City and Mumbai parts along with some in Reykjavík, and Tykwer helmed Berlin{{cite web |url=http://fortsetzung.tv/2014/10/12/cologne-conference-von-britischen-thrillern-und-deutschen-grosprojekten/ |title=Cologne Conference: Von britischen Thrillern und deutschen Großprojekten |website=Fortsetzung.tv |author=Marcus Kirzynowski |date=October 12, 2014 |access-date=August 23, 2016 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823202749/http://fortsetzung.tv/2014/10/12/cologne-conference-von-britischen-thrillern-und-deutschen-grosprojekten/ |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.serienjunkies.de/news/cologne-conference-tom-tykwer-ber-63064.html |title=Cologne Conference: Tom Tykwer über Sense8 und Babylon Berlin |author=Christian Junklewitz |date=October 10, 2014 |website=Serienjunkies |access-date=August 22, 2017 |language=de |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160824111942/http://www.serienjunkies.de/news/cologne-conference-tom-tykwer-ber-63064.html |archive-date=August 24, 2016 |url-status=live}} and Nairobi.{{cite web |url=http://mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/peopledaily/?p=105642 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150511195145/http://mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/peopledaily/105642/hollywood-glitterati-brings-action-city/ |archive-date=May 11, 2015 |title=Hollywood glitterati brings action to the city |date=September 14, 2014 |website=People Daily |access-date=October 8, 2014 |url-status=dead}} Also available at: [http://epaper.peopledaily.co.ke/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pnum=2&edid=86a77694-45e0-4e34-96f7-924d6a7e4f18&isshared=true epaper.peopledaily.co.ke] Dan Glass made his directorial debut in the Seoul part of the story.{{cite interview |url=http://cinefex.com/blog/sense8/ |title=The Visual Effects of "Sense8" |subject=Dan Glass |interviewer=Graham Edwards |date=June 16, 2015 |work=Cinefex |access-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508203730/http://cinefex.com/blog/sense8/ |archive-date=May 8, 2016 |url-status=live}} In total, the Wachowskis were credited for directing seven episodes, McTeigue and Tykwer two each, and Glass one.{{cite interview |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/first-trailer-wachowskis-sense8-released/ |title=First Trailer For The Wachowskis' Sense8 Released |subject=Grant Hill |subject-link=Grant Hill (producer) |interviewer=Jordan Farley |date=May 7, 2015 |work=GamesRadar |access-date=May 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507024403/http://www.gamesradar.com/first-trailer-wachowskis-sense8-released/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}}

In the second season, Lana Wachowski took over many of the filmmaking aspects of the show. Production sound mixer Stevie Haywood recounted Lana's directing style was to use two cameras as the default setup, and develop the shot over "enormously long takes" which could last up to fifteen to twenty minutes.{{cite web |url=https://www.audiomediainternational.com/recording/sense8-sound-recordists-discuss-working-with-the-wachowskis/ |title='Sense8' sound recordists discuss working with The Wachowskis |author=Adam Savage |date=January 9, 2017 |website=Audio Media International |publisher=NewBay Media |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727121708/https://www.audiomediainternational.com/recording/sense8-sound-recordists-discuss-working-with-the-wachowskis/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} McTeigue returned as director for Mexico City,{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BGeyksoQEIQ/ |title=Welcome to Mexico City. The #Road2Sense8 continues |date=June 10, 2016 |via=Instagram |access-date=December 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161231220621/https://www.instagram.com/p/BGeyksoQEIQ/ |archive-date=December 31, 2016 |url-status=live}} and Tykwer for the Nairobi parts.{{cite interview |url=http://frontrowfeatures.com/features/exclusive-filmmaker-tom-tykwer-awaits-hologram-king-release-15455.html |title=EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Tom Tykwer Awaits 'A Hologram for the King' Release |subject=Tom Tykwer |interviewer=Angela Dawson |date=April 22, 2016 |work=Front Row Features Wire |access-date=October 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029143252/http://frontrowfeatures.com/features/exclusive-filmmaker-tom-tykwer-awaits-hologram-king-release-15455.html |archive-date=October 29, 2016 |url-status=live}} According to Glass, in the second season he directed the second unit in Seoul, and he also did some directing in Berlin.{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-glass-a0864019/ |title=Dan Glass |author=Dan Glass |via=LinkedIn |access-date=June 30, 2017}} Overall, six episodes of the second season, including the Christmas special and series finale,{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/global/sense8-lana-wachowski-netflix-1202618303/ |title=Lana Wachowski on How 'Sense8' Crew Stepped Out of Their Comfort Zone |author=Will Tizard |date=November 18, 2017 |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=November 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123150914/http://variety.com/2017/tv/global/sense8-lana-wachowski-netflix-1202618303/ |archive-date=November 23, 2017 |url-status=live}} credit Lana as director, three credit McTeigue, and Tykwer and Glass get credited each in one.

Seoul unit director Dan Glass and Jim Mitchell were the visual effects supervisors of the first season. The season had a total VFX shot count of about 1200.{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2015/06/04/%e2%80%8blooks-could-kill-on-new-netflix-series-sense8%e2%80%8b/ |title=Looks could kill on new Netflix series 'Sense8' |author=Andrea Morabito |date=June 4, 2015 |website=New York Post |publisher=News Corp |access-date=July 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728211252/http://nypost.com/2015/06/04/%e2%80%8blooks-could-kill-on-new-netflix-series-sense8%e2%80%8b/ |archive-date=July 28, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.tt.com/ticker/10100257/es-gibt-immer-noch-geheimnisse-mysteryserie-sense8-auf-netflix/ |title="Es gibt immer noch Geheimnisse": Mysteryserie "Sense8" auf Netflix |date=June 3, 2015 |website=Tiroler Tageszeitung |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109162209/https://www.tt.com/home/10100257-91/es-gibt-immer-noch-geheimnisse-mysteryserie-sense8-auf-netflix.csp |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live |language=de}} An in-house VFX team was established in Chicago which completed over 700 shots. The major external VFX vendors were Locktix VFX (160{{ndash}}180 shots), Technicolor VFX (over 100 shots),{{cite web |url=https://www.technicolor.com/news/sense8 |title=Sense8 – An Immersive Exploration of Transmigrating Souls in the Modern World |website=Technicolor SA |date=June 12, 2015 |access-date=April 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402140236/https://www.technicolor.com/news/sense8/ |archive-date=April 2, 2018 |url-status=live}} and Encore VFX. Because of the series' tight budget and timeline the production made the decision to do most of the effects, including the telepathy scenes, in-camera and only enhance them digitally where appropriate. Technicolor provided dailies and worked with cinematographer John Toll and the Wachowskis to color grade the show. Technicolor finished the show in 4K and delivered both 2K and 4K masters.{{cite magazine |url=http://digital.copcomm.com/i/571027-september-2015/31 |author=Christine Bunish |title=Web-Based Series Break Out |date=September 1, 2015 |magazine=Post Magazine |page=30 |access-date=October 30, 2016}}

In the second season, the visual effects supervisors were Dan Glass and Ryan Urban. Technicolor were again responsible for managing dailies and color grading the show, while their VFX department delivered over 600 shots for the first 11 episodes, and an additional 109 for the series finale.{{cite web |url=https://www.technicolor.com/news/technicolor-keeps-globetrotting-netflix-production-moving/ |title=Technicolor Keeps Globetrotting Netflix Production Moving |date=June 5, 2017 |website=Technicolor SA |access-date=April 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402140351/https://www.technicolor.com/news/technicolor-keeps-globetrotting-netflix-production-moving/ |archive-date=April 2, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.technicolor.com/news/technicolor-returns-one-last-mission-sense8-series-finale/ |title=Technicolor Returns for "One Last Mission" on Sense8: The Series Finale |website=Technicolor SA |access-date=June 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180610173321/https://www.technicolor.com/news/technicolor-returns-one-last-mission-sense8-series-finale |archive-date=June 10, 2018 |url-status=live}} Sense8 was edited in the Wachowskis' headquarters in Chicago,{{cite web |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/dreharbeiten-zu-sense8-in-berlin-von-allem-etwas-mehr/14545970.html |title=Dreharbeiten zu "Sense8" in Berlin. Von allem etwas mehr |author=Kurt Sagatz |date=September 14, 2016 |website=Der Tagesspiegel |publisher=Verlag Der Tagesspiegel |access-date=July 27, 2018 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727123447/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/dreharbeiten-zu-sense8-in-berlin-von-allem-etwas-mehr/14545970.html |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} Kinowerks,{{cite tweet |number=810214952048828416 |user=sense8 |title=Why a holiday special? Lana Wachowski explains. Sense8 returns with a 2-hour event, coming December 23. |date=December 17, 2016 |access-date=December 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225222334/https://twitter.com/sense8/status/810214952048828416/ |archive-date=December 25, 2016 |url-status=live}} by Joe Hobeck and Joseph Jett Sally in the first season and by Sally and Fiona Colbeck in the second.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/reviews/sense8-wachowskis-netflix-review-1201499916/ |title=TV Review: 'Sense8' |author=Brian Lowry |date=May 27, 2015 |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507021859/http://variety.com/2015/tv/reviews/sense8-wachowskis-netflix-review-1201499916/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}}

The score of Sense8 was composed by Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer, with additional contributions by Gabriel Isaac Mounsey,{{cite episode |title=Amor Vincit Omnia |series=Sense8 |season=2 |number=12 |network=Netflix |date=June 8, 2018}} and recorded by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.{{cite press release |url=http://watertower-music.com/news/newsstory.php?title=561230 |title=SENSE8 SEASON ONE SOUNDTRACK RELEASED |date=May 5, 2017 |location=Los Angeles, California |publisher=WaterTower Music |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109125037/http://watertower-music.com/news/newsstory.php?title=561230 |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.lvz.de/Nachrichten/Medien-TV/Die-neue-Netflix-Produktion-Sense8-ist-eine-Episodenserie-der-Matrix-Macher/ |title=Die neue Netflix-Produktion "Sense8" ist eine Episodenserie der "Matrix"-Macher |author=Nina May |date=June 1, 2015 |work=Leipziger Volkszeitung |access-date=August 31, 2019 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831104311/https://www.lvz.de/Nachrichten/Medien-TV/Die-neue-Netflix-Produktion-Sense8-ist-eine-Episodenserie-der-Matrix-Macher/ |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |url-status=live}} Each season's score was written up to a year and a half before filming began, enabling the production to play it back to the actors before shooting a scene.{{cite web |url=https://www.awardscircuit.com/2015/07/10/comic-con-2015-sense8/ |title=Comic Con 2015: Sense8 |author=Terence Johnson |date=July 10, 2015 |work=Awards Circuit |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831104637/https://www.awardscircuit.com/2015/07/10/comic-con-2015-sense8/ |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |url-status=live}} A soundtrack album for the first season was released digitally by WaterTower Music on May 5, 2017. It includes 10 tracks by Klimek and Tykwer. For the second season, Klimek and Tykwer provided the editorial team with about 10 "mother" themes, each with a length of over five minutes, before filming began. In the Christmas special episode "Happy F*cking New Year", a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is featured, which was arranged by Gary Fry and recorded by the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, with the lead vocalist being Daniel Martin Moore. The episode also featured a Matstubs remix of "I'd Love To Change The World".{{cite interview |url=https://blog.tunefind.com/2017/05/behind-music-sense8-season-2/ |title=Scene & Heard: Behind the Music of Sense8 Season 2 |subject=Ethan Stoller |date=May 15, 2017 |work=TuneFind |access-date=May 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516145246/https://blog.tunefind.com/2017/05/behind-music-sense8-season-2/ |archive-date=May 16, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ApolloChorusChicago/posts/10154232228571991/ |title=Today's Throwback Thursday goes to this past Holiday Season where the Apollo Chorus of Chicago had the amazing opportunity to record Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the Netflix series "Sense8"! |author=Apollo Chorus of Chicago |date=December 23, 2016 |via=Facebook |access-date=May 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170501201452/https://www.facebook.com/ApolloChorusChicago/posts/10154232228571991%23 |archive-date=May 1, 2017 |url-status=live}}

The theme music of Sense8 was picked by the Wachowskis from the two hours of original music Tykwer and Klimek had written.{{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/emmys-2016-theme-songs/ |title=Inside This Year's Emmy-Nominated Opening Themes |author=Sulagna Misra |date=September 15, 2016 |website=Vanity Fair |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213164712/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/emmys-2016-theme-songs/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=live}} The show received a nomination for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music during the 68th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. For the series almost two-minute long title sequence, Karin Winslow rented a car and with the help of a camera assistant traveled in the eight featured countries of the first season and captured over a hundred shots. "My directive from Lana was to go out and describe each country by what you see; find the nuances, find the food, find what people are doing, get a feel for the place," said Winslow.{{cite web |url=http://tvtrippin.com/travel/where-in-the-world-pinning-down-sense8-openers-108-scenes/ |title=Where in the world: Pinning down the 108 scenes in 'Sense8' intro |author=Lori Rackl |date=June 23, 2015 |website=TV Trippin |access-date=June 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507195318/http://tvtrippin.com/travel/where-in-the-world-pinning-down-sense8-openers-108-scenes/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=dead }} For the second season, and again for the finale, some of the footage was replaced by new shots.

On June 1, 2017, Netflix announced they had cancelled the series after two seasons.{{cite web |url=https://tvshowpatrol.com/news/sense8-canceled-netflix-exclusive/ |title=Netflix cancels 'Sense8' after 2 seasons |author=Curt Wagner |date=June 1, 2017 |website=TV Show Patrol |access-date=June 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601191717/https://tvshowpatrol.com/news/sense8-canceled-netflix-exclusive/ |archive-date=June 1, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite press release |url=https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/sense8-will-not-return-for-another-season/ |title=Sense8 Will Not Return For Another Season |date=June 1, 2017 |publisher=Netflix |access-date=June 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604144040/https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/sense8-will-not-return-for-another-season/ |archive-date=June 4, 2017 |url-status=live}} Later that month, Chief Content Officer of Netflix Ted Sarandos during his talk on Produced By Conference, commented that the show was cancelled because its audience, despite being very passionate, was not large enough to support the high production costs.{{cite web |url=https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-ted-sarandos-defends-get-down-sense8-cancellation/ |title=Netflix Boss on 'The Get Down,' 'Sense8' Cancellations: 'We Couldn't Support Those Economics' |author=Linda Ge |date=June 10, 2017 |website=TheWrap |access-date=December 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210180024/https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-ted-sarandos-defends-get-down-sense8-cancellation/ |archive-date=December 10, 2017 |url-status=live}} As a response to the cancellation, fans created online petitions, called Netflix, and tweeted #RenewSense8 and other hashtags, in an attempt to bring back the show. On June 29, 2017, the official social media accounts of the show posted a letter by Lana Wachowski which announced the release of a two-hour special for 2018.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/sense8-netflix-cancellation-lana-wachowski-ted-sarandos-1202527168/ |title=After Netflix Canceled 'Sense8,' Lana Wachowski Wasn't Sure About the Two-Hour Finale |author=Ramin Setoodeh |date=August 15, 2017 |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816175100/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/sense8-netflix-cancellation-lana-wachowski-ted-sarandos-1202527168/ |archive-date=August 16, 2017 |url-status=live}} The special was released on June 8, 2018.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2018/04/sense8-series-finale-date-set-netflix-lana-wachowski-lilly-wachowski-1202375635/ |title='Sense8' Series Finale Date Set By Netflix |author=Denise Petski |date=April 24, 2018 |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727114400/https://deadline.com/2018/04/sense8-series-finale-date-set-netflix-lana-wachowski-lilly-wachowski-1202375635/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/the-music-box-and-lana-wachowski-are-giving-chicago-an-early-screening-of-the-sense8-finale-032718/ |title=The Music Box and Lana Wachowski are giving Chicago an early screening of the 'Sense8' finale |website=Time Out |author=Kris Vire |date=March 27, 2018 |access-date=March 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328072441/https://www.timeout.com/chicago/news/the-music-box-and-lana-wachowski-are-giving-chicago-an-early-screening-of-the-sense8-finale-032718/ |archive-date=March 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Netflix billed the second special in their announcement as the series finale, but Lana left open the future of Sense8 past the special's release.{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/tv/2017/06/29/sense8-finale-special-netflix/ |title=Sense8 lives! Netflix to air 2-hour finale special to wrap up canceled drama |date=June 29, 2017 |author=Shirley Li |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109141112/https://ew.com/tv/2017/06/29/sense8-finale-special-netflix/ |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live}} On August 5, 2017, during a Facebook Live with Lana and the cast about the show's revival, Lana joked that because she believed that the fans of the show would go and create more fans, she was writing the entire third season.{{cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/Sense8TV/videos/vb.299840300208930/687439574782332/ |title=We're going live with the cast this Saturday at 1pm PT from Vancouver Pride! What questions do you have for Brian (Will), Max (Wolfgang), Toby (Capheus) and Lana? |time=15:53 |quote=Lana Wachowski: The real Lana Wachowski, because I'm an actor, been hired to play Lana Wachowski—she would never come to social media, never!... Because she believes so much in the fans, that they are going to go out and actually create so many more fans, Lana is actually going ahead and writing the entire season 3! |date=August 5, 2017 |type=Live streaming |via=Facebook |access-date=November 23, 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.konbini.com/en/entertainment-2/lana-wachowski-season-3-sense8/ |title=Lana Wachowski Says She's Writing An Entire Season 3 For 'Sense8' |author=Marion Olité |date=August 10, 2017 |website=Konbini |access-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108180014/https://www.konbini.com/en/entertainment-2/lana-wachowski-season-3-sense8/ |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |url-status=live}} A few days later, Brian J. Smith said during an interview that he believed if "a truly eyebrow-raising amount of people" watched the special, they would make more.{{cite interview |url=https://tvserieshub.tv/2017/08/10/interview-with-brian-j-smith/ |title=Interview with Brian J Smith |subject=Brian J. Smith |interviewer=Kate McCrea |date=August 10, 2017 |work=TV Series Hub |access-date=November 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123113642/https://tvserieshub.tv/2017/08/10/interview-with-brian-j-smith/ |archive-date=November 23, 2017 |url-status=live}} Conversely, shortly after the special's release, executive producer Grant Hill said that they followed Netflix's directive to design it as the series finale,{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sense8-series-finale-wedding-orgy-ending-explained-1118748/ |title='Sense8' Boss Unpacks "Joyous" Series Finale |date=June 10, 2018 |author=Jackie Strause |website=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819075729/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sense8-series-finale-wedding-orgy-ending-explained-1118748 |archive-date=August 19, 2018 |url-status=live}} and that there have not been any talks about the possibility of another revival.{{cite interview |url=https://ew.com/tv/2018/06/08/sense8-series-finale-grant-hill-postmortem/ |title=Sense8 EP looks back on 'chaotic' experience of shooting series finale |subject=Grant Hill |interviewer=Shirley Li |date=June 8, 2018 |work=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Meredith Corporation |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819080215/https://ew.com/tv/2018/06/08/sense8-series-finale-grant-hill-postmortem/ |archive-date=August 19, 2018 |url-status=live}}

Straczynski and Hemon have shared some hints about the character trajectories that were planned for the third season and beyond.{{cite web |url=https://moviepilot.com/p/sense8-cancelled-season-3-storylines/4290882/ |title=Future Storylines And Why You'll Never See Them: Everything You Need To Know About The 'Sense8' Cancellation |date=June 12, 2017 |author=Brooke Geller |website=Moviepilot |access-date=May 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627165708/https://moviepilot.com/p/sense8-cancelled-season-3-storylines/4290882/ |archive-date=June 27, 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://series.talkymedia.it/series/sense8-il-co-creatore-straczynski-rivela-cosa-sarebbe-successo-nella-stagione-3/ |title=Sense8: il co-creatore Straczynski rivela cosa sarebbe successo nella stagione 3 |date=June 10, 2017 |website=Talky! Series |publisher=Talky! Media |access-date=May 10, 2019 |language=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510203926/https://series.talkymedia.it/series/sense8-il-co-creatore-straczynski-rivela-cosa-sarebbe-successo-nella-stagione-3/ |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite interview |url=https://entropymag.org/making-sense8-a-conversation-with-aleksandar-hemon/ |title=Making Sense8: A Conversation with Aleksandar Hemon |subject=Aleksandar Hemon |interviewer=Davis Schneiderman |date=August 1, 2018 |work=Entropy |publisher=The Accomplices |access-date=May 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510203811/https://entropymag.org/making-sense8-a-conversation-with-aleksandar-hemon/ |archive-date=May 10, 2019 |url-status=live}}

Critical reception of the first season of Sense8 has been generally favorable. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator website, reported a 71% critical approval rating with an average rating of 6.25/10 based on 62 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Some of the scenarios border on illogical, but the diverse characters and the creative intersections between their stories keep the Wachowskis' Sense8 compelling."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sense8/s01/ |title=Sense8: Season 1 (2015) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=October 19, 2019}} On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the season is assigned a score of 64 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/sense8/season-1/ |title=Sense8: Season 1 |website=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=May 8, 2019}}

Sense8 continued to be positively received in its second season. Rotten Tomatoes indexed 15 reviews for the early released Christmas special, and reported an 87% critical approval rating for it, with an average rating of 6.88/10. The website assigned the following consensus to the special: "Sense8 serves up a heaping helping of yuletide queerness and sci-fi slyness in this narratively messy but richly felt special."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sense8/19822/ |title=Sense8: A Christmas Special (2016) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=June 4, 2019}} Based on 28 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes assigned the 10 episodes that followed the special a critical approval rating of 93%, with an average rating of 7.57/10. The critical consensus reads, "Sense8 maintains its stunning visuals, Wachowski wackiness, and great heart {{em dash}} though its individual characters deserve more development."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sense8/s02/ |title=Sense8: Season 2 (2017) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=January 1, 2019}} On Metacritic, the season was assigned a score of 73 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/sense8/season-2/ |title=Sense8: Season 2 |website=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=May 8, 2019}} Rotten Tomatoes also collected 28 reviews for the series finale, and calculated a 93% critical approval rating, and an average rating of 7.15/10. The finale's critical consensus reads, "A hard fought coda to a beloved series, Sense8's epilogue exemplifies its strange, sensual, somewhat silly delights."{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sense8/32671/ |title=Sense8: Finale Special (2018) |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango |access-date=August 26, 2019}}

In a report released by Netflix, it was discovered that at least 70% of the viewers that watched up to the third episode ended up watching the entire first season,{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-tv-show-data-viewer-episode-study-1201600746/ |title=Netflix Data Reveals Exactly When TV Shows Hook Viewers—And It's Not the Pilot |author=Todd Spangler |date=September 23, 2015 |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507134553/http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-tv-show-data-viewer-episode-study-1201600746/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} and Straczynski was told there are people that watch it "straight through – three, four, six times."{{cite web |url=https://www.cbr.com/sdcc-jms-announces-flash-earth-one-talks-sense8-renewal-hopes/ |title=SDCC: JMS Announces "Flash: Earth One," Talks "Sense8" Renewal Hopes |author=Seth Rosenblatt |date=July 12, 2015 |website=CBR |publisher=Valnet |access-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213171741/https://www.cbr.com/sdcc-jms-announces-flash-earth-one-talks-sense8-renewal-hopes/ |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |url-status=live}} In another report released by Netflix, Sense8 was listed among the shows whose viewers tend to heavily binge-watch their first seasons, rather than savoring their episodes by watching them at a slower pace.{{cite web |url=https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-binge-new-binge-scale-reveals-tv-series-we-devour-and-those-we-savor-1/ |title=Netflix & Binge: New Binge Scale Reveals TV Series We Devour and Those We Savor |website=Netflix |date=June 8, 2016 |access-date=June 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608200646/https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-binge-new-binge-scale-reveals-tv-series-we-devour-and-those-we-savor-1/ |archive-date=June 8, 2016 |url-status=live}} Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos praised the success of Sense8 in the up-and-coming French and German markets{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflixs-ted-sarandos-schmoozes-with-italian-industry-at-ischia-global-fest-1201542936/ |title=Netflix's Ted Sarandos Schmoozes With Italian Industry At Ischia Global Fest |author=Nick Vivarelli |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=July 17, 2015 |date=July 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507135027/http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflixs-ted-sarandos-schmoozes-with-italian-industry-at-ischia-global-fest-1201542936/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} but also globally.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2015/07/netflix-content-spending-increase-subscriptions-1201476502/ |title=Netflix Execs Say Programming Outlays Will Open Global Doors, And Wallets |author=David Lieberman |work=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |date=July 15, 2015 |access-date=August 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827210439/https://deadline.com/2015/07/netflix-content-spending-increase-subscriptions-1201476502/ |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |url-status=live}} Vice president of international series for Netflix Erik Barmack has named Sense8 one of the most popular Netflix series in the Brazilian market.{{cite interview |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2016/12/1842940-embalada-pela-netflix-assinatura-de-servico-de-streaming-dobra-no-brasil.shtml |title=Embalada pela Netflix, assinatura de serviço de streaming dobra no Brasil |subject=Erik Barmack |interviewer=Nelson de Sá |date=December 20, 2016 |work=Folha de S.Paulo |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831104755/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2016/12/1842940-embalada-pela-netflix-assinatura-de-servico-de-streaming-dobra-no-brasil.shtml |archive-date=August 31, 2019 |url-status=live |language=pt}} Less than three days after the premiere of the first season, Variety reported that it had been pirated more than half a million times, regardless of the series' digital distribution.{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-sense8-piracy-wachowskis-1201514526/ |title=Netflix 'Sense8' Thriller from Wachowskis Pirated More Than 500,000 Times Since Debut |author=Todd Spangler |website=Variety |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=June 12, 2015 |date=June 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507135415/http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/netflix-sense8-piracy-wachowskis-1201514526/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}} Netflix also placed the second season of Sense8 at fifth place on their list for the year 2017 about couples where one of the two cannot resist the urge to watch, and ends up watching episodes ahead of their significant other.{{cite web |url=https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/2017-on-netflix-a-year-in-bingeing/ |title=2017 on Netflix - A Year in Bingeing |website=Netflix |date=December 11, 2017 |access-date=December 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215123007/https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/2017-on-netflix-a-year-in-bingeing/ |archive-date=December 15, 2017 |url-status=live}}

Former Colombian President and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Juan Manuel Santos heavily referenced Sense8 in a speech he made in April 2019 during the graduation ceremony of students of the University of Los Andes who participated in the Ser Pilo Paga program. Santos recited the basic premise of the show about the fictional species Homo sensorium who can feel empathy for one another, and expressed his wish and belief that one day humanity will be the same, "united in diversity and tolerance".{{cite speech |title=EN VIDEO: El emotivo discurso de Santos en la graduación de 'pilos' en los Andes |author=Juan Manuel Santos |author-link=Juan Manuel Santos |event=Graduation ceremony from University of Los Andes |location=Bogotá, Colombia |date=April 4, 2019 |via=Semana |url=https://www.semana.com/educacion/multimedia/el-emotivo-discurso-de-santos-en-la-graduacion-de-pilos-en-los-andes/608138/ |access-date=April 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405164757/https://www.semana.com/educacion/multimedia/el-emotivo-discurso-de-santos-en-la-graduacion-de-pilos-en-los-andes/608138 |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |url-status=live |language=es}}

Critics and writers such as David Barr Kirtley have commented on the influence of Theodore Sturgeon's novel More Than Human on Sense8, even calling it, "the Theodore Sturgeon adaptation we always wanted."{{Cite magazine |last=Geek's Guide to the Galaxy |first= |date=2015-07-06 |title=Is Sense8 Too Radical for Critics? |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/07/geeks-guide-sense8/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |issn=1059-1028}}{{Cite web |title=SFE: Sense8 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sense8 |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}

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The red carpet premiere of Sense8 took place on May 27, 2015, in San Francisco's AMC Metreon,{{cite web |url=http://www.filmandtvnow.com/the-cast-of-netflix-sci-fi-series-sense8-attend-premiere-in-san-francisco/ |title=Red Carpet Interviews: The Cast Of Netflix Sci-Fi Series 'Sense8' Premiere In San Francisco |date=May 29, 2015 |author=Lisa-Marie Burrows |website=Film and TV Now |access-date=April 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417122907/http://www.filmandtvnow.com/the-cast-of-netflix-sci-fi-series-sense8-attend-premiere-in-san-francisco/ |archive-date=April 17, 2017 |url-status=usurped}}{{cite web |url=http://www.sidewalkstv.com/special-feature-meet-the-stars-of-netflixs-sense8/ |title=Special Feature: Meet the stars of Netflix's Sense8 |date=June 3, 2015 |website=Sidewalks TV Show |publisher=Sidewalks Entertainment |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816141514/http://www.sidewalkstv.com/special-feature-meet-the-stars-of-netflixs-sense8/ |archive-date=August 16, 2017 |url-status=live}} where the first three episodes were previewed.{{cite web |url=http://aceofgeeks.net/sense-8-review-the-art-of-the-slow-burn/ |title=Sense 8 Review – The Art of the Slow Burn |author=Mike Fatum |date=May 28, 2015 |website=The Ace of Geeks |access-date=April 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417123120/http://aceofgeeks.net/sense-8-review-the-art-of-the-slow-burn/ |archive-date=April 17, 2017 |url-status=dead}} Starting in the middle of July 2015, Netflix Brazil released a series of documentary shorts called Sense8: Decoded. Inspired by Sense8 and directed by João Wainer, the shorts briefly touch upon subjects such as psychiatry, feminism, being transgender and Buddhism.{{cite web |url=https://www.otempo.com.br/diversao/lea-t-miguel-nicolelis-e-arthur-verissimo-promovem-serie-sense8-1.1073667/ |title=Lea T, Miguel Nicolelis e Arthur Veríssimo promovem série 'Sense8' |date=July 21, 2015 |work=otempo.com.br |access-date=August 30, 2019 |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830220239/https://www.otempo.com.br/diversao/lea-t-miguel-nicolelis-e-arthur-verissimo-promovem-serie-sense8-1.1073667/ |archive-date=August 30, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/2015/07/28/netflix-lanca-mini-documentario-feminista-baseado-na-nova-serie_a_21690134/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFcwed4mzMVWBqGmzWIreOpR0NC_-YZNJn7C8q8dH1EMjds9Ku-ENHEtwdZ-Qa81wqmTRU0awaJnVViE1RYylpVvlBOQeRwLadp9uXzhDbIVnNfeXSI1gTkVzQsW2s16dLd9sh4ozFwuwFcQqi2T6nXrZSj4h3rhmnWaIXHceKa3 |title=Netflix lança mini-documentário feminista baseado na nova série 'Sense8' |date=July 28, 2015 |work=HuffPost Brasil |author=Lucas Castilho |access-date=August 30, 2019 |language=pt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830220454/https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/2015/07/28/netflix-lanca-mini-documentario-feminista-baseado-na-nova-serie_a_21690134/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFcwed4mzMVWBqGmzWIreOpR0NC_-YZNJn7C8q8dH1EMjds9Ku-ENHEtwdZ-Qa81wqmTRU0awaJnVViE1RYylpVvlBOQeRwLadp9uXzhDbIVnNfeXSI1gTkVzQsW2s16dLd9sh4ozFwuwFcQqi2T6nXrZSj4h3rhmnWaIXHceKa3 |archive-date=August 30, 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://cargocollective.com/nandosperb/Sense8-Decoded-Netflix/ |title=Sense8 Decoded Netflix |website=cargocollective.com |access-date=October 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031220526/http://cargocollective.com/nandosperb/Sense8-Decoded-Netflix/ |archive-date=October 31, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.sense8decoded.com.br/ |title=Sense8: Decoded |website=sense8decoded.com.br |language=pt |access-date=October 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825095457/http://www.sense8decoded.com.br/ |archive-date=August 25, 2015 |url-status=dead}} Later in the month, Netflix released a music track titled Brainwave Symphony on Spotify.{{cite AV media |url=https://open.spotify.com/track/40gtOsswUPQke4sSrNGvdb/ |title=Brainwave Symphony |via=Spotify |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214135117/https://open.spotify.com/track/40gtOsswUPQke4sSrNGvdb |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |url-status=live}} To produce it they subjected eight strangers to a series of various stimuli and they recorded their individual brainwaves using EEG sensors. After extracting a melody from each of them they arranged them in a way to produce a track which mirrors the escalating action of the season.{{cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-symphony-combines-brainwaves-of-eight-strangers-2015-7/ |title=Netflix composed a symphony by combining the brainwaves of eight strangers |author=Nathan McAlone |date=July 31, 2015 |website=Business Insider |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727121136/https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-symphony-combines-brainwaves-of-eight-strangers-2015-7/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://sense8brainwavesymphony.com/ |title=We've made an original piece of music using peoples' brainwaves |website=sense8brainwavesymphony.com |access-date=May 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507202332/http://sense8brainwavesymphony.com/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=dead}} In early August 2015, Netflix made available Sense8: Creating the World, a half-hour streaming television documentary, shot around the world, about the making of the first season of the series.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/arts/television/whats-on-tv-monday.html |title=What's On TV Monday |date=August 10, 2015 |website=The New York Times |access-date=August 11, 2015 |author=Kathryn Shattuck |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814090539/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/arts/television/whats-on-tv-monday.html |archive-date=August 14, 2015 |url-status=live}}

On May 3, 2016, publicity stills of the ongoing production of the second season were posted online, accompanied by a short message by Lana Wachowski introducing the #Road2Sense8 hashtag under which new pictures would be posted.{{cite web |url=http://www.newnownext.com/sense8-season-2-photos/05/2016/ |title="Sense8" Posts Delicious Behind-The-Scenes Set Photos From Season 2 |author=Dan Avery |date=May 3, 2016 |website=NewNowNext |access-date=May 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507203316/http://www.newnownext.com/sense8-season-2-photos/05/2016/ |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |url=https://sense8.tumblr.com/post/143798306529/it-was-while-shooting-the-big-cluster-birthday/ |title=It was while shooting the Big Cluster Birthday Bash, we wished there was a way for our fans to experience… |work=Sense8 |via=Tumblr |access-date=May 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506015150/http://sense8.tumblr.com/post/143798306529/it-was-while-shooting-the-big-cluster-birthday |archive-date=May 6, 2016 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://sense8.tumblr.com/tagged/Road2Sense8/ |title=Posts tagged Road2Sense8 |via=Tumblr |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824112309/http://sense8.tumblr.com/tagged/Road2Sense8/ |archive-date=August 24, 2016 |url-status=live}} On December 3, 2016, the Christmas special episode was screened at São Paulo's Comic Con Experience, in advance of its Netflix premiere on December 23.{{cite web |url=https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/series/orgia-com-protagonistas-de-sense8-leva-publico-da-comic-con-ao-delirio--13414 |title=Orgia com protagonistas de Sense8 leva público da Comic Con ao delírio |author=João da Paz |date=December 4, 2016 |website=Notícias da TV |access-date=July 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727121311/https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/series/orgia-com-protagonistas-de-sense8-leva-publico-da-comic-con-ao-delirio--13414 |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live |language=pt}} The second episode of the second season was screened out of competition during the Series Mania festival in Paris, on April 18, 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-carreys-im-dying-up-premiere-at-paris-fest-987926/ |title=Jim Carrey's 'I'm Dying Up Here' to Premiere at Paris Fest |author=Rhonda Richford |date=March 22, 2017 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |access-date=December 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210174516/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-carreys-im-dying-up-premiere-at-paris-fest-987926/ |archive-date=December 10, 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.premiere.fr/Series/News-Series/Sense8-saison-2-retour-sur-le-premier-episode/ |title=Sense8 saison 2 : retour sur le premier épisode |date=April 19, 2017 |author=Nicolas Bellet |website=Premiere |publisher=Groupe Rossel |access-date=April 19, 2017 |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419170910/http://www.premiere.fr/Series/News-Series/Sense8-saison-2-retour-sur-le-premier-episode/ |archive-date=April 19, 2017 |url-status=live}} On April 23, a screening of the second and third episodes took place in Chicago's Music Box Theatre, in a benefit for the American Civil Liberties Union, followed by Lana Wachowski taking questions from the audience,{{cite web |url=https://www.musicboxtheatre.com/films/the-aclu-presents-sense8-season-2-preview/ |title=The ACLU Presents: Sense8 Season 2 Preview |website=Music Box Theatre |access-date=April 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410100456/https://www.musicboxtheatre.com/films/the-aclu-presents-sense8-season-2-preview/ |archive-date=April 10, 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/ACLUofIllinois/videos/vb.6709500997/10154569512905998/ |title=Lana Wachowski Q&A at the Sense8 season 2 preview at the Music Box Theatre benefitting the ACLU of Illinois. |date=April 23, 2017 |author=American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois |type=Recording |via=Facebook |access-date=April 25, 2017}} and again on April 26, in the red carpet premiere of the second season, at New York City's AMC Lincoln Square.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sense8-season-2-netflix-cast-diversity-inclusion-trumps-america-998028/ |title='Sense8' Cast on Why Their Inclusive Show Is "Necessary" in Trump's America |date=April 26, 2017 |author=Jackie Strause |website=The Hollywood Reporter |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |access-date=December 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210174638/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sense8-season-2-netflix-cast-diversity-inclusion-trumps-america-998028/ |archive-date=December 10, 2017 |url-status=live}}

Several screenings of the series finale took place prior to its release on Netflix, on June 8, 2018. The first screening took place in The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, on May 25, as a benefit for EMILY's List, followed by a Q&A session with Lana and select cast members.{{cite web |url=https://www.musicboxtheatre.com/films/sense8-final-episode/ |title=Sense8 Final Episode |website=Music Box Theatre |access-date=April 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429205236/https://www.musicboxtheatre.com/films/sense8-final-episode/ |archive-date=April 29, 2018 |url-status=live}} The second screening took place in the Latin America Memorial in São Paulo, on June 1, with several cast members attending.{{cite web |url=https://www.eonline.com/br/news/940849/atores-de-sense8-levam-fas-a-loucura-na-pre-estreia-do-episodio-final-em-sp/ |title=Atores de Sense8 levam fãs à loucura na pré-estreia do episódio final em SP |author=Miriam Kaibara |date=June 1, 2018 |website=E! Online Brasil |publisher=NBCUniversal |access-date=June 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603113552/https://www.eonline.com/br/news/940849/atores-de-sense8-levam-fas-a-loucura-na-pre-estreia-do-episodio-final-em-sp/ |archive-date=June 3, 2018 |url-status=live |language=pt}} The red carpet premiere followed in ArcLight Hollywood, in Los Angeles, on June 7.{{cite web |url=https://www.redcarpetreporttv.com/2018/06/09/get-inside-the-cast-of-sense8-as-they-talk-about-the-series-finale-at-netflixs-sense8-special-event-sense8-netflix-photogallery-trailer-videointerviews/ |title=Get inside the cast of Sense8 as they talk about the Series Finale, June 7, 2018, at Netflix's Sense8 Special Event #Sense8 #Netflix #PhotoGallery #Trailer #VideoInterviews |author=Not A Gossip Girl |date=June 9, 2018 |website=Red Carpet Report TV |publisher=Mingle Media TV Network |access-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612202508/https://www.redcarpetreporttv.com/2018/06/09/get-inside-the-cast-of-sense8-as-they-talk-about-the-series-finale-at-netflixs-sense8-special-event-sense8-netflix-photogallery-trailer-videointerviews/ |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |url-status=live}} Linda Perry made a guest appearance to perform "What's Up?".{{cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/Sense8TV/videos/surprise-sense8-finale-performance-from-linda-perry/823749574484664/ |title=It wouldn't be a #Sense8 party without singing "What's Up," right? Well, Linda Perry herself showed up and surprised everyone at the premiere. Enjoy, cluster fam 🌎🎵 |date=June 10, 2018 |via=Facebook |type=Montage of live performance |access-date=May 13, 2019}} Netflix organized an event for the fans on the day of the special's release, June 8, in Posillipo, in Naples, where a big portion of the special was filmed. Among other things, fans could try a slice of a special "Sense8" pizza that was created by famous pizza maker Gino Sorbillo with the help of the cast.{{cite web |url=https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/06/09/news/festa_per_sense8_noi_pazzi_di_napoli_e_di_elena_ferrante_-198540758/ |title=Festa per Sense8: "Noi pazzi di Napoli e di Elena Ferrante" |author=Paolo De Luca |date=June 9, 2018 |website=la Repubblica |publisher=GEDI Gruppo Editoriale |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109162721/https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/06/09/news/festa_per_sense8_noi_pazzi_di_napoli_e_di_elena_ferrante_-198540758/ |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live |language=it}}

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• {{Cite magazine |author=Joshua Rothman |date=July 14, 201 |title=Sympathetic Sci-Fi |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/sympathetic-sci-fi/5 |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast}}
• {{Cite journal |author=Cáel M. Keegan |date=November 2016 |title=Tongues Without Bodies: The Wachowskis' Sense8 |url=https://www.academia.edu/30418561 |journal=TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly |volume=3 |issue=3–4 |publisher=Duke University Press |pages=605–610 |doi=10.1215/23289252-3545275}}

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