Sense8 has five seasons.
Sense8 . In the second season Toby Onwumere replaces Ameen . Each episode of Sense8 was written by the Wachowskis and Straczynski in the first season ; in the second season , Lilly Wachowski took a break from the show , and the scripts were written by just Lana Wachowski and Straczynski . Most of the episodes of the two seasons were directed by the Wachowskis ( or just Lana , in the second season ) , with the remainder being divided between their frequent collaborators James McTeigue , Tom Tykwer and Dan Glass . Netflix released the first episode of the second season , a two-hour Christmas special , on December 23 , 2016 ; the remaining 10 episodes of the season were released on May 5 , 2017 .