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- May 21, 2021
- Apple TV+
- May 21, 2021
Summary The documentary series co-created by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry about mental health features discussions with chef Rashad Armstead, Glenn Close, NBA player DeMar DeRozan, Olympic boxer Virginia "Ginny" Fuchs, Lady Gaga, NBA player Langston Galloway, and Zak Williams.
- Apple TV+
- May 21, 2021
- Apple TV+
- May 21, 2021
The Me You Can't See
Season 1
Season Premiere: May 21, 2021
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Summary The documentary series co-created by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry about mental health features discussions with chef Rashad Armstead, Glenn Close, NBA player DeMar DeRozan, Olympic boxer Virginia "Ginny" Fuchs, Lady Gaga, NBA player Langston Galloway, and Zak Williams.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
56% Mixed
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0% Negative
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In stepping away from the empty platitudes celebrities often provide and treating its topic as an urgent, medical issue, this series is a much-needed leap in the right direction.
If you don’t go in looking for bombshells from Harry or other superstars, The Me You Can’t See is a revealing look at mental illness and how our awareness of how pervasive it is in its many forms is just starting to develop.
Ultimately, it’s the celebrity or celebrity-associated tales that stand out most — not because they’re famous, but, at least in the first three episodes, because they’re the most candid about their experiences.
This series has a serious public interest helping people with mental illness and it is indisputable that Harry will help to destigmatise it by speaking honestly and, yes, eloquently about his own. ... For all its clarity of vision and talk of a "universal condition", however, The Me You Can't See feels myopic on the burning issue that many, indeed most, people cannot afford years of therapy.
If The Me You Can't See helps one person, this globe-spanning exercise was surely worth it. But strictly as a TV show, you're not missing much if you don't see it.
No television show is required to reflect absolutely everything all at once. But when it’s a show that claims to reflect a universal truth about pain and struggle, yet is dominated by those with unlimited access to counselling, medical professionals and sheer time to heal, it feels half-baked. The Me You Can’t See is full of people talking, but rarely about the things we desperately need to be talking about.
However real and affecting their experiences and difficulties are (and all those in Say It Out Loud are genuine, passionately articulated and frequently deeply moving), celebrity offerings valorise simply “telling your story”, not judging yourself and others, refusing to accept stigma and so on. Which is all well and good and necessary but does absolutely nothing to address how ordinary people are supposed to achieve this when the waiting lists for the services they need to access stretch to infinity.
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