I agree completely. It's also a show that seems to have gotten even more traction after the cancellation was announced. At least I started to notice people who had never commented on it, previously, suddenly doing so in rather high numbers.
So this is a strong statement, lets break it down for a moment.
Anything thats got nekid folks is going to get attention. Could they have told a story about 8 folks around the world being connected without any nudity? Sure, but in this case it was relevant. Sexuality, romance, and connection was a main theme of Sense8. I think it was used in a relevant and generally tasteful way. There were no random leaving a bathroom or exposition in a brothel "just because" scenes.
I think there is something to be said, for creating a Hall of Fame of the "greatest seasons of TV"...actually that sounds fun let me make a thread.
SG1 is royalty of sci-fi, it had a who's who of actors from Outer Limits, Star Trek, X-Files, etc.; SGU was simply doomed if it could not get those fan groups on board, and as far as I know, it died for people not watching it. I know I signed off after getting attacked in the fan groups after noting as most here have is that the characters were unsympathetic, and as one found out about them, the less one liked them. A lot of the SG1 & Atlantis actors went on into Defiance, and Dark Matter, later to appear in the Expanse. It is funny that Atlantis has Aquaman himself in it as Ronon. Once the middle ground was gone with SGU, I just ignored it, I remember trying to watch an episode, not getting what was going on, and turning it to something else. The writing was awful, it did the wunderkind thing at the exact same time as the big alien invasion show that was on. I watched it again later, and it was funny to notice that never do any of the characters really gel with each other, and some, such as with Ming Na Wren, she was sidelined, just so the unknown girl that was kidnapped by aliens could come back with amazing powers
Not a very related response but the “What’s Going On?” sequence, where they’re all singing it together in different places, is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in any show. I dropped the show toward the end, but I love a big swing, and that gonzo-wonderful moment alone—and everything that built up to making it so powerful—puts Sense8 into the stratosphere for me.
Some of that can depend upon how you're structuring the writing and filming. I don't know if it's still the case, but for early seasons of the new Doctor Who, a lot of episodes and even individual scenes in episodes were filmed vastly out of order, so even if you know early on in production that you need to change direction, that doesn't mean that you've only been working on the first couple of episodes so far, and can start making your changes from mid-season onwards. You may already have shot scenes for the finale, or at least finalised scripts, and if major changes need to be made, that means getting the writers back in and paying them for re-writes - and if the show's been cancelled, you certainly don't have extra budget to spend on re-writes.
