Heartbreak Around the Globe

On June 1st 2017, the very first day of Pride month, Netflix cancelled one of their originals Sense8 and needless to say, fans are pissed.

The ground-breaking sci-fi show, which premiered in summer of 2015, is the brilliant brainchild of renowned producers from The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski. If you haven’t seen it yet, you are definitely missing out. Sense8 tells the story of eight strangers from different parts of the world who suddenly become mentally and emotionally linked. It is an all-inclusive globally diverse show that has been received extremely well by a large majority of the audience and has garnered positive reviews from all corners of the world. Because of these factors and many others involved, it has been quite a shock to fans to learn of the hasty cancellation, especially since no official explanation has been given as to why.

For fans of any TV show, cancellations are generally fraught with resentment and anger. This is natural and largely expected by TV networks as a whole but Netflix has always projected a different image to its consumers. For the most part, it has always seemed to be a place of solace for canceled programs to come back to life, receiving their much-deserved and satisfying final endings. Up until now, Netflix’s plan for it - by producing specials, wrapping up storylines and performing other services - is to ensure that disappointed customers do not turn into ex-customers. But in a rather unexpected move, their image has been flipped on its head.

Based on the current Internet movement to get Sense8 renewed, viewers in large numbers have come together to try and save the show. Through this movement, all the measurable features of the fanbase prove they are intelligent consumers; making it quite easy to see that Sense8 fans are generally savvy with social media, intelligent, unified, supportive of one another, and are amazingly articulate with expressing in every possible way how devastated they are by the news of this cancellation. They are not spoiled snowflakes, unable to accept that their favorite past-time has been taken away from them by Netflix, but are cunning and direct in their reasons for being upset with the international streaming service. They know what they're talking about. They're angry and heartbroken after falling head over heels in love with a show that matters to them (in some cases, more than anything has ever mattered) only to have it ripped from their grasp prematurely.