not really an original thought, but i'm thinking about how each of the individual character stories of the cast of Sense8 all read like stories common to their part of the world. like, granted i have relatively little experience of non-US based stories, but like,
will's personal story reads as like, a police drama, where it's all about him and his work partner diego and his relationship with his dad and trying his best to do the right thing,
and riley's story looks a lot like a nordic drama series with quiet shots of the landscape, as well as tragedy due to the cold and how you live with it,
and lito's story feels like an absolutely amazing telenovela, including all sorts of amazing beats surrounding him finding his own relationship with his masculinity, while also getting the classic masculine acts-of-violence-as-redemption and the will-they-or-won't-they-get-back-together,
and wolfgang is in a crime drama that's very viscerally about family and what you owe (or don't owe) to people based on blood or based on friendship, intertwined with some heady moments referencing the fraught history of his country over the twentieth century,
and kala's story reads like a bollywood romance/drama including all sorts of classic tropes from there, like the suddenly breaking into a dance number, or the arranged/love marriage dichotomy, the will-she-get-with-the-foreigner drama,
and capheus, well, i grant that Kenya doesn't really have a huge media output, but it seems that the wachowskis took a lot from the Nigerian film scene (second biggest in terms of sheer output) and made sure that the political and economic struggles faced were true to the real-life setting,
and sun is in a fucking martial arts movie, complete with a personal grudge as motivation and a fucking superhuman ability to kick ass and storytelling through fight choreography,
and nomi lives in a fucking queer drama/love story, complete with shitty family that doesn't get you, the other family that does, medical abuse as metaphor for more realistic versions of medical abuse, her relationship with Amanita that remains the best representation that I (a transfemme lesbian) have ever seen of myself in a large-scale production, and gosh i could gush about her for while
anyway, i fuckin love this show, i need to rewatch it
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