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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Sense8

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Nearing the end of the Wachowski mini series, this week Griffin and David discuss the most recent project by the prolific filmmakers, 2015’s Netflix series Sense8. But is it worth binging all twelve hour long episodes in a few days? What are the hosts thoughts on peak TV? Who doesn’t like a good Jean-Claude Van Damme pun? Together #thetwofriends examine season one’s major plot points, breakdown all the eight sensates different skills, appreciate the convenience of science bombs and try to make sense of the villain “Whispers.” Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is human? An ability to reason, to imagine, to love, or grieve? If so, we are more human

0:26.3

than any podcast ever will be. What's the word you're replacing there? Human. I don't know.

0:31.8

This is fucking, I don't, what quote was I going to use from this? That was, that's the thing

0:38.2

that, that, that Navine Andrew says at the end of the episode, like 11 when he's spling

0:43.4

the will that they're more human, human. Hi everybody, my name is Griffin Newman. I'm David Sims.

0:49.8

This is a podcast called Blank Check with Griffin and David. Okay. Colin the Podchowski

1:00.5

pastors. This is a movie podcast. We talk about directors, movies. They've been given

1:06.9

Blank checks to make crazy projects because of early successes. Yes. And we chart that whole

1:13.6

fucking filmography pre-Blank Check, they'll blank check, post-Blank Check. And we're in post-knot.

1:19.1

We're at the last project. This is a Blank Check project for sure. No question. We're going

1:24.0

to do a bonus episode, but this is the last Wachowski project. This is the most recent Wachowski

1:28.2

project to Dave. That's what we're talking about. Wachowski's. Yeah, this is called the Podchowski

1:32.9

pastors. Yeah. In case you didn't get the title, I did say, oh, you did, I forgot. I did.

1:36.9

It's a tie here. We're both tied. Okay. So David and I both like crammed this show in.

1:43.3

We both stayed up late last night. Do you want to know what? The show is called Sensei.

1:47.8

The show is called Sensei. Yes, it's a 12 episode Netflix drama. I'm sorry, a Netflix

1:53.0

original. Netflix original series. It's a drama. 12 episode first season. What we we're talking

1:59.2

about today. Yeah, each episode is a give or take an hour long. Most of them a little bit over.

2:04.8

Oh, yeah. Both of us sort of got cocky, I think, in our ability to finish this. We did. I finished

2:10.2

it. Finish it this morning. We did finish it. I'm saying we lost a lot of sleep finishing it

2:13.8

and time for this episode. Yeah. Here's what I did because I'm an idiot. This was my strategy.

2:18.3

I'm an idiot. My strategy was watching episode and take like a 20 minute nap. I watched another

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