Fans still reeling from Netflix‘s decision to cancel Sense8 can take solace in this little scrap of news: Alex Hawkins, the CEO of porn site xHamster, says they’d be happy to host a third season of the show, which creator Lana Wachowski is reportedly writing.
“We know it’s unconventional, but we want to bring it back—on xHamster,” writes Hawkins. “We’re not talking about a parody, or something less than, but an actual revival of the series.”
“[xHamster] has a long history of fighting for the rights of sexual speech, and non-normative sexuality… [We] continue to use our audience to speak up against repressive anti-LGBTQ laws in the US and abroad, and for sex ed in public schools, Planned Parenthood, and the rights of sex workers.”
Hawkins suggests Sense8‘s frank depictions of sexuality and gender may have influenced Netflix’s decision to cancel the show, and says xHamster would have no qualms with the material whatsoever.
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“We have no such limitations, and also understand implicitly the interconnectedness of sexualities across boundaries. In short, we are a we.”
Hawkins asks for a meeting with Wachowski, acknowledging “we know we’re an unlikely home. But five years ago, people laughed at the idea of Netflix producing [an] original series. We think that our time, like yours, has come.”
Wachowski has yet to respond to the letter.
In a recent Facebook Live session, Wachowski, writing in the third person, revealed:
“She’s writing… because she believes so much in the fans that they’re going to go out and actually create so many more fans. Lana’s actually going ahead and writing the entire season 3.”
A Change.org petition to save the show garnered over 500,000 signatures, and Netflix will still be producing a two-hour finale.
“After that,” Wachowski writes, “if this experience has taught me anything, you NEVER know.”
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KaiserVonScheiss
xHamster
Well, if that doesn’t tell you how bad the show is…
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Well, Frank Ocean’s conceptual art/DIY project/visual album “Endless” has found a home on Pornhub. Tools, banging and screwing galore
Captain Obvious
As much as I love the gay couple on the show and hate that they’re wasted on it this only proves that the show is absolute trash.
I watched hoping it would be a science-fiction show and it basically just devolved into soft-core porn. The “Christmas Special” makes that very clear. It’s quite disturbing how the show itself seems to forget it pretended to have a story or even a plot at all.
There connection is nothing more than a means to an orgy. You can find that on special cruises and save a lot of budget/production value.
Chris
Sense8 reminds me a lot of the Matrix movies, also helmed by the Wachowski siblings. The first installment of both (movie and series) surprised us with its interesting concept and ground-breaking visuals. Both second installments have slipped, relying more on soft-porn-like sex in the service of exploring “relationships” than providing any real breakthroughs. I wonder if, like Matrix (is that what it means to be an independent human: to provide malware updates for the computer over-lord) , season 3 will limp towards its ending or will it recapture its original inspiration?