Netflix remained tight-lipped over Sense8 Season 2 at today’s TCA, despite renewing BoJack Horseman for Season 3.
However, co-creator J. Michael Straczynski says he’s “cautiously optimistic” about renewal, though he admits that there isn’t back-up plan should Netflix decide to cancel the sci-fi series, per CBR:
Asked if there is a back-up plan to continue the story if, as the questioner put it, “Netflix stupidly decides not to order a second season,” JMS was adamant. “We always plan for success. In all the seasons I did of Babylon 5, we never had a ‘Plan B.’ There is no back-up plan.”
Reiterating the five-year plan for Sense8, per Deadline:
Responding to whether there was a five-year plan for the show, and plot details, Straczynski said “Heck, No! But we’re long game kind of people. For ourselves, for the writing, we have to figure out where all this pays off. Season one is obviously about origins.”
#Sense8 producer "cautiously optimistic" about a Season 2 renewal. #TCA15
— Vlada Gelman (@VladaGelman) July 28, 2015
There is a 5-year plan for #Sense8, but J. Michael Straczynski says "heck no" when asked if he can tell us where it will go. #TCA15
— Zap2it (@Zap2it) July 28, 2015
JSintheStates says
August 3, 2015 at 20:17Don’t you just hate television network executives? Big bucks executives? If I had been that indecisive or ineffectual at my job during a thirty-five year career, I would have been fired a xiuple of hundreds of times!
Possibly the best science-fiction drama being produced in 2015. Made by masters of their craft, futurists examining the edge of our myopic sedated übersurveillanced lives, and they can’t make a decision…why? Fucking time in your life to have doubts about your sexuality, boys! See your therapists on your time, not mine! I’d like to spent my time watching the next four seasons of sense8! Doesn’t the most hacked program ever in the history of television tell you something? (Outside of the obvious fact that your computer and network security sucks!)