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- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
Summary In a post-apocalyptic world where humans have lost the ability of sight, warrior Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) seeks to protect his newborn twins from a queen who wants them destroyed in the drama from Steven Knight.
Created By: Steven Knight
- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
- Apple TV+
- Nov 1, 2019
Summary In a post-apocalyptic world where humans have lost the ability of sight, warrior Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) seeks to protect his newborn twins from a queen who wants them destroyed in the drama from Steven Knight.
Created By: Steven Knight
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
48% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
48% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
37
5% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
48% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
48% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
“See” is much more invested in a simple survival story, mixing Knight’s typical self-serious writing with a bit of sci-fi fun. The balance isn’t quite there yet, as episodes don’t exactly earn their hourlong run time. Momoa, meanwhile, fits the role well.
Unfortunately, the story hasn’t caught up to the ambition of the production design in the first few episodes.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 108 User Ratings
6.1
62% Positive
67 Ratings
67 Ratings
9% Mixed
10 Ratings
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29% Negative
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 108 User Ratings
6.1
62% Positive
67 Ratings
67 Ratings
9% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
29% Negative
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
This show was thrilling, exciting and fun to be a part of. I thought it was so creative and slowly manifests a fear of what life 'could be'. It's not socially acceptable anymore to want to watch "beautiful cast members" but as an audience member to this, I was smitten by them all. Season 2 can't get here fast enough.
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SEASON 1
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 1
“See” is a gorgeously filmed series, and props are due to director Francis Lawrence for making the most its British Columbia settings. There’s also just enough fodder for thought in its exploration of how the massive scale elimination of a sense humans take for granted might, indeed, change the world. However – and yes, go ahead and call me a sensitive snowflake for this – there’s something profoundly ableist in the proposal that blind people would, in the span of a few generations, somehow forget that the sun is a big ball of flaming gas and start talking like Lothar of the Hill People.
See isn't close to a good show thus far, but it does just enough to make you believe that under the right circumstances, there might be a good show here somewhere, eventually.
The story doesn’t gel well, and the video-game-like combat sequences can be exhausting. “See” is a camp-watch, and not much more.
The majority of Knight’s series is a self-serious dirge, where sight-based wordplay like “So they just walk around with their eyes closed?” is delivered with a straight face. In the end, See’s myriad absurdities somehow add up only to a run-of-the-mill dystopia, where the children are the “chosen ones” and the tyrant must be overthrown.
The execution, particularly in scripts by Steven Knight (of January’s box-office bomb Serenity), is an unmitigated disaster. ... Not to put too fine a point on it, See is one of the worst TV series I’ve seen in years.
I attended the premiere in L.A. and even as they were introducing it, I got the feeling that this was going to be an engineered and soulless product. One hour later, we were proven right.
Visually and production-design wise it is astounding, and in all fairness the actors are pretty good (even if Momoa's character feels like a rehash of some of his previous roles), but the story is just so dull and incoherent, as if they were just checking boxes out of a list of "cool stuff your would-be hit-show must include".
Violence? Check.
Nudity? Check.
Profanity? Check.
Evil tyrant? Check.
Chosen ones? Check.
Set pieces? Check.
A mystery? Check.
Treason? Check.
An actual, coherent story? Ups!
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SEASON 1
An interesting idea for a show, but for a season? I found myself losing interest by the end of the first show. There wasn't enough to keep me going. So admittedly, I've only seen the first show and I can't believe this could be renewed already for season 2. This wasn't for me.
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