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Sense8 Gets Christmas Special. Season 2 Airing in May 2017.

by Dave Elliott
Sense8 Gets Christmas Special. Season 2 Airing in May 2017.

Sense8 Gets Christmas Special. Season 2 Airing in May 2017.

Netflix Original series Sense8 will make a brief return this Christmas, before returning for a full 2nd season on Friday 5th May 2017 at 8am it has been announced.

Sense8: A Christmas Special is a 2 hour long feature episode, airing on Friday 23rd December 2016 at 8am, and sees the journey of the eight singular hearts and minds continue to weave in and out of each other’s lives. Each finding deeper connections, learning darker, more desperate secrets about one another and struggling to identify with more than just oneself.

Sense8 Season 2 picks up where season one left off, Capheus (Toby Onwumere), Kala (Tina Desai), Lito (Miguel Angel Silvestre), Nomi (Jamie Clayton), Riley (Tuppence Middleton), Sun (Donna Bae), Will (Brian J. Smith) and Wolfgang (Max Riemelt) come together both physically and mentally, plunged into the middle of each other’s tragedies and triumphs. On the run from Whispers (Terrence Mann), and forced to question their very identity, it’s a matter of survival as the Sensates must find a way to live with, understand and protect one another against all odds.

Season 2’s production saw some controversy, when actor Aml Ameen, who originally played Capheus, was replaced by Onwumere, due to ‘creative differences’ with Lilly Wachowski. It’s still not entirely clear what happened, although Jamie Clayton, who plays Nomi on the show, did say later in an interview “It’s just a case of, creatively, two people having a really different idea of what they want to do. [The Wachowskis] wanted to bring people in from the beginning who were going to honor the stories we were going to be telling, who would be respectful of the material, who wouldn’t have any limitations as far as the material was concerned, who were happy, outgoing, fun, all-around positive people, because we would be a big traveling circus.”

Lilly is taking a backseat on directing this season, having recently come out as transgender, and wanting to focus on her well-being. Her sister Lana Wachowski is running the 2nd season production, with Lilly expected to return if the show gets picked up for a 3rd season.

Sense8: A Christmas Special will stream on to Netflix on Friday 23rd December 2016 at 8am. Sense8 Season 2 will air Friday 5th May 2017 at 8am

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