Oh, I get WHY the show is called this. I just think having eight characters is untenable from a narrative perspective, and thus joke that it should be "Sense5." I realize this breaks the double meaning.

Guilty, as charged. Thanks for the close reading!

You should at least get to the 4 Non Blondes scene in episode 4. And then the orgy in Episode 8. These are the Sense8 benchmarks.

I DID enjoy revisiting "Stranger in a Strange Land!" http://www.avclub.com/tvclu…

Critics were given access to the first two episodes of the series in advance of the series' panel at the Television Critics Association press tour in August.

And you aren't? :)

"Yes."

"Mr Robot is so much better than Lost."

I saw two, and didn't get the sense that any of my feelings were going to change dramatically. As the review notes, I'll watch a few more before it premieres, and update if your optimism proves warranted.

They'll reair the pilot again on October 13, with the second episode as well. (I think that's why they were willing to do this, since there's still incentive to tune-in on the 13th proper).

That one was just there to remind us of what was at stake when Yael was going to record her conversation with Jeremy.

I think Sonia was more critical of the Leftovers than the readers were, and wasn't participating in the comments, and so a disconnect grew, and then one review turned it into "a thing." There's also an unspoken—and nonsensical—understanding at times that episodic coverage isn't the space to explore identity issues. Of…

"There were times that we had scenes and moments where we go back with
Romeo and Darius and they didn’t end up making it in the final episode
for whatever reason. That is very frustrating to me. But we follow these
characters for another three episodes. We have fallout to tell with
them in the upcoming episodes and as…

Yeah, I see where you're coming from on the first two points. The third I'm struggling with, and so I'd be happy for more clarification: I don't think it's gratuitous to discuss Poussey's crimes in this case, as it's a central theme of the show and also something that becomes such a topic of conversation in the…

Some of this comes from leaving the space of episodic reviews—where there's an ongoing relationship with a writer, and at least some semblance of a "community" that does shape conversation—and entering into the free-for-all of FOC-land, but let the record show that I am completely aware of the fact that I can get away…

The EW reporter simply meant that there were something approaching stakes regarding Darius' injury. Mind you, the idea there needed to be a reporter in order for that news to leak out is insane, given how many crew members would probably be willing to sell it to a tabloid for a little money. And then the next week,…

I was going to say "don't get me started," but then I started writing a comment and realized I'd already started. So here we go.

You're right on the Poussey/Bayley connection, something I've been glad to see fleshed out in the comments.

I don't think Daya is boring, I just think that Daya has receded to the background in ways that will always result in this reaction in an ensemble show. I didn't think she was "boring" in the first three seasons, but it's hard getting trapped in that Bennett story when the show started pitching it as so romantic.

Oh, Pau knows my name.