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[APeacefulWarrior]

I enjoyed the first season of Sense 8 with one caveat: they beat your over the head with (trendy-politically correct) sexuality. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind some romance in TV/film, but I don't like it when it gets so overbearing it becomes distracting.

I simply saw it as a celebration of love and humanity, including the most joyful of all possible (3D) expressions of love.  Referring to it as "trendy-politically correct" implies a deliberate or manipulative cynicism on the part of the show's creators that I honestly don't think was there.

After all, the artists involved have been exploring dimensions in human love as far back as the 1990s, at least.  The subject of transcendent mentally-shared love between telepaths was explored in Babylon 5 (along with ideas of cross-species romance) and the Wachowskis' first directoral effort -around the same time- was a mob caper movie turned on its head by featuring lesbians as the heroes.  Not to mention Cloud Atlas and all the ways it examined human relationships to find the purer love underneath.  Frankly, for Sense8 to not have sexuality as one of its main themes would have seemed strange, given its creators.

If there's any sort of "messaging" going on in Sense8 in that regard, I really only see it as simply suggesting that all manifestations of human love are equally beautiful, because the energetic and emotional connections are more important than physiological details of the bodies involved.  And surely one of the most valid uses of art is to help a viewer see beauty where they had not noticed it before, right?