MysterionMuffles Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 A good FDR friend of mine recommended this mind bending brilliance: It's about 8 individuals across the world who all share a telepathic connecion. What one will feel and experience, so will another, and they all have access to each other's skills and knowledge when desperate situations call them to action. For instance, Capheus is a bus driver in Kenya, and when a group of thugs beat him up and take his mother's AIDs medicine from him, without any prior fighting experience--across the world in Korea where Sun a business woman by day participates in an MMA fight, they develop a telepathic connection that allows her to inhabit Capheus' body in order to incapacitate the thugs single handedly. The action in this show is well coreopgraphed and all well an good, but as the Wachowski brothers are known for is their writing and directing. Those are also top notch! The action is all well and good, but what makes this show really hold its ground is how it can maintain 8 different narratives simutaneously and make them connect in interesting ways. And even if they weren't connecting, individuallly, each narrative is equally as hard hitting and heartfelt as the last. Each character has their own personal struggle that touches upon the themes of: families of choice, love and heartbreak, serving a crime lord in order to save a loved one, the death and loss of loved ones, and most of all, peronal integrity. I highly recommend this show to anyone who likes to question faucets of reality, love, and connection.
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