Netflix’s Sense8, season 1, episode 1, “Limbic Resonance” is reviewed. The Wachowskis (The Matrix Trilogy, Jupiter Ascending) and and J. Michael Straczynski present a new series about 8 strangers from around the world who find themselves mentally and emotionally connected to each other. Can the Wachowskis be best served in a 13-hour (approximate) story telling arch? How did the first episode bode for the series, and will these strangers all be able to get an engrossed story?

Alonso Duralde (TheWrap, Linoleum Knife), William Bibbiani (Crave Online), and Francis Maxwell (Film Writer, The Sun) discuss the opening episode of Sense8.