Sense8 and sensibility: how a TV series is transcending geographical and gender borders (original) (raw)

Abstract

https://theconversation.com/sense8-and-sensibility-how-a-tv-series-is-transcending-geographical-and-gender-borders-77377?utm\_campaign=Echobox&utm\_medium=Social&utm\_source=Twitter#link\_time=1495717668 Season 2 of Sense8 was released on Netflix in May 2017. It has a massive global fan base, and responds to a deep need to find transnational connection and community in times of national isolationism, sexual conservatism, rising homophobia and transphobia. Fans become like the Sense8 characters and connect across space through streaming and social media platforms, forging a virtual community that stands against narrow populist nationalism and for a new globalism built on solidarity. All of this progressive social content is contained within a genre-filled thriller full of action packed narratives and sexually explicit scenes designed to appeal to a mass audience.

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