'Sense8' will return for a two-hour special on Netflix because sometimes things work out
It looks like the hashtags and petitions to bring back the canceled Netflix series Sense8 are working. Even though the show won't be returning as a regular series, one of its creators announced a two-hour special finale coming out next year.
Co-creator Lana Wachowski posted a letter Thursday on the show's official Twitter account about a final two-hour episode in the works. The episode is set to be released in 2018.
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In the letter addressed to the Sense8 family, Wachowski talked about falling into a fairly serious depression and being unable to open her email after the show's cancellation earlier this month after two seasons. But "just as the characters on our show discover that they are not alone, I too have learned that I am not just a me. I am also a we," she wrote.
Flipping from a depressed and melancholy tone, she revealed how "improbably, unforeseeably, your love has brought Sense8 back to life."
She acknowledged Netflix's efforts to keep the show going ("they love the show as much as we do but the numbers have always been challenging"), and that for now fans should just expect a two-hour installment to wrap things up, but beyond that...who knows?
Thank you, Netflix.
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