Lito in Sense8 season 2
A scene from Sense8. Netflix

Adult website xHamster is offering to pick up the cult TV series Sense8 after the show was unceremoniously cancelled by Netflix in June. In a letter published on Wednesday (16 August), the porn site appealed to the show's creators, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, to bring a revived third season of the sci-fi show to the X-rated platform, with xHamster acting in a production role.

Following the show's cancellation, a widespread fan backlash eventually led to the announcement of a two-hour finale special that is set to air in 2018. However, widespread reports that the Wachowskis would have preferred to push on with a full third season sparked the attention of xHamster vice president Alex Hawkins.

More from IBTimes UK

"Ever since we read about the cancellation, we've been wondering if there was something we could do," said Hawkins in the letter. "While we're happy Netflix is picking up the series for a conclusion, before you wrap up the story, we wanted you to consider another option — letting xHamster produce the series."

The letter asserts that the site's supposed high volume of traffic and "long history of fighting for the rights of sexual speech, and non-normative sexuality" make it a perfect fit for the series. It also takes great pains to separate the offer from xHamster's usual array of pornographic videos, confirming that it is "not talking about a parody, or something less than, but an actual revival of the series."

The move has been dismissed by some fans on social media as a mere publicity stunt, while Inverse points out that xHamster's pornographic content, which includes offensive descriptions of LGBTQ people and images of non-consent, is at odds with the show and its creators' views.

Below is the full transcript of the letter:

"Dear Lana and Lilly,

We recently read that you're working on a third season of Sense8 despite the fact that Netflix has no plans to renew the series. We know it's unconventional, but we want to bring it back — on xHamster. We're not talking about a parody, or something less than, but an actual revival of the series.

Ever since we read about the cancellation, we've been wondering if there was something we could do. While we're happy Netflix is picking up the series for a conclusion, before you wrap up the story, we wanted you to consider another option — letting xHamster produce the series.

Hear us out.

xHamster is currently one of the most trafficked websites on the internet. We get more visitors daily than the New York Times, ESPN or the Daily Mail. In short, we have the eyeballs, and the revenue. Unlike with Netflix, you wouldn't be competing for part of our production budget — it would be yours.

We also have the disposition. We know that a series about polymorphous perversity is a hard sell for a mainstream network like Netflix. We have no such limitations, and also understand implicitly the interconnectedness of sexualities across boundaries. In short, we are a we.

xHamster has a long history of fighting for the rights of sexual speech, and non-normative sexuality. In addition to allowing billions of users to connect with individual articulations of gender and sexuality, we continue to use our audience to speak up against repressive anti-LGBTQ laws in the US and abroad, and for sex ed in public school Planned Parenthood and the rights of sex workers.

We'd like to set up a meeting to see if there's some fit for us in the future of Sense8. We know we're an unlikely home. But five years ago, people laughed at the idea of Netflix producing original series. We think that our time, like yours, has come."

Netflix