Each episode covers one of the traditional five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.
Alan Rich of Variety said that "Ackerman has fashioned an absorbing tapestry of media essays on human sensuality".
[1] Walter Goodman of The New York Times stated that "much of the information ... is fresh", but "the programs meander down dull paths; the scientific material tends to be delivered in clumps that are hard to absorb".
[2] Ken Ringle of The Washington Post was not impressed, and described the series as "distracted, disorganized, frequently trivial and irritatingly self-indulgent".
He went on to say that "instead of exploring our senses' role in the natural world", the programs "tends to celebrate instead the way corporations seduce them artificially for profit".