Apple announced that See would be heading to their streaming service, Apple TV+, starting November 1st. The upcoming drama had a lot of potential but you can absolutely see where it falls right back into the same typical Hollywood trappings that led many of us far and away from blockbuster movies.
So the story centers around a future dystopia where everyone is blind due to a cataclysmic event. Jason Momoa’s character, Baba Voss, leads a tribe of blind wanderers and villagers. He’s guided by Paris, a spiritual leader played by Alfre Woodard.
One day his wife gives birth to twins who have the ability to see. How do they know the babies can see if they themselves can’t see? I don’t know. It’s ridiculous.
Anyway, some chick who rules over some other blind people on the other side of the region finds out about the kids and their ability to see, and decides to send some people to retrieve the babies. From there, Voss and crew have to run away from the people hunting his kids.
Conceptually, this almost seemed kind of cool, but a lot of it just doesn’t make sense. For instance, how did anyone find out that the babies can see? How could they know?
How did the evil queen find out about the kids being able to see? Who told her and why? How did they even travel from the village tribe to the queen’s land without tripping over a rock and dying?
How did they navigate without guides?
And why are the kids who can see mocha-colored?
There’s also a ton of “diversity” in the tribes.
To make matters worse Apple disabled the comments on their trailer, so you can only vote… that’s it.
The other trailers not on Apple’s channel feature the comments fully enabled, and most people criticized the show with the same sort of questions I had.
Anyway, this seems like one of those projects where you might want to keep an eye on it from afar. I tend to doubt it will be good, even though Jason Momoa looks pretty badass in the blue face paint carrying around that giant cleaver. If only it wasn’t produced by Apple and wasn’t diseased with the Hollywood agenda.
Oh well.
