As I said above, 63 is not a good score for a TV series on Metacritic just like a 75 is not a good score for games on Metacritic. That "generally favourable reviews" tag is meaningless.
Reception from the OT ranged from mixed to lukewarm from what I saw. Just like everyone else, I had an opinion before the show premiered because (bad) reviews came out before the show premiered. I wasn't looking to have it validated though. Metacritic would have been enough for that.
An 82 user score, however, IS good.
Reception from the OT was actually pretty damn good, because the show over 10 episode is pretty damn great. Which, of course, was intentional. The show builds slow to an epic conclusion and, in the end, pays off the build to it.
The problem with critic reviews is two-fold.
1. They're just opinions based heavily on personal preference, as with anyone. Just because someone is a critic doesn't make them the God of analysis. In fact, most of these critics are just people like you and me, who happen to be good (or at least, decent) at writing. Aggregate scores are in itself not useful, better to find a few writers whose tastes match yours, then go to metacritic, see an aggregate score and go "well, it must suck then."
2. TV Show reviews in particular are often based on the first few episode of a series, which is a terrible way to judge a show. Often, a show is still finding itself in the first few episode, establishing the world and the characters. Many shows don't get great until mid-season. This goes especially for weekly episodic shows. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sucked so bad in its first half season many people (including me) gave up on it. But I'll be damned if that show didn't become tons better midway through. Stargate Universe, same thing. Buffy The Vampire Slayer's first season is peanuts compared to the S2 and beyond. I could go on listing many others, but you get what I'm trying to say.
Sense8 and many other Netflix shows are even worse off in this manner, given how they're written differently. They don't need to worry about ratings over a single episode, they don't have to build each episode to a climax and have contained single episode storylines. Sense8 has one storyline that is laid out over 10 hours of TV, judging it on three episodes is like reading Lord of the Rings up to Tom Bombadil and then slamming it for being a boring story about some little people living in the forest that go on a little walk.
Either way, Sense8 might, or might not, be a show you enjoy. Many people love the show, as is evidenced by this thread, the user ratings and full season reviews. There's no guarantee you'll like it, but you'd be doing yourself a disservice to not give it a go if the premise interests you.
