Apple TV+ Series - See (2019) [+]
Feb 08 2023
I finished watching the third and last season of See, a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama on Apple TV+ that ran three seasons at eight episodes per season.
Humanity lost the ability of sight (all at once, gradually, not sure though probably happened fairly quickly) and civilization fell. The series is set probably a couple hundred years later in the Eastern United States (some of the names are corruptions of old names like Alkenny for Alleghany). Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) is leader of the Alkenny, a small mountain tribe. He and his wife Maghra (Hera Hilmar) have a terrible secret: their two children, Kofun (Archie Madekwe) and Haniwa (Nesta Cooper), are sighted and sighted people are treated like witches to be hunted down and burned.
Their peaceful existence is shattered when the Payan Army arrives, the Payans being the neighboring kingdom. Witchfinder Tamacti Jun (Christian Camargo) leads his forces and they've come for the witches living with the Alkenny. The tribe fights back but is forced to flee and season one is mostly Baba, Maghra and their children fleeing from Tamacti Jun while Queen Sibeth (Sylvia Hoeks) of Paya deals with an insurrection from her nobles.
Season two turns it around as Maghra becomes Queen of the Payans but now the Trivantes, a much bigger kingdom, threatens to conquer the Payan Kingdom and it turns out the Trivantian general Edo Voss (Dave Bautista) is both Baba's brother who hates Baba and secretly uses sighted assets.
Season three continues that line. Edo was defeated but his lieutenant Tormada (David Hewlett) gains control of Edo's faction and with a fearsome new weapon (bombs) he plans to conquer Paya himself and eventually allies with former Queen Sibeth and her small following.
It's a low-tech series. It does the blindness part fairly well and seems sort of realistic though the fight scenes are a bit cinematic. It's quite bloody and graphic though it kind of limits it to three or four episodes each season. The overall story is ok and each main character has their arc. Ending is fitting and leaves a few questions open for a subsequent series should there be one, even a series that is set a generation later.
Overall a pretty good series.
[Previous review after watching season one.]
Humanity lost the ability of sight (all at once, gradually, not sure though probably happened fairly quickly) and civilization fell. The series is set probably a couple hundred years later in the Eastern United States (some of the names are corruptions of old names like Alkenny for Alleghany). Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) is leader of the Alkenny, a small mountain tribe. He and his wife Maghra (Hera Hilmar) have a terrible secret: their two children, Kofun (Archie Madekwe) and Haniwa (Nesta Cooper), are sighted and sighted people are treated like witches to be hunted down and burned.
Their peaceful existence is shattered when the Payan Army arrives, the Payans being the neighboring kingdom. Witchfinder Tamacti Jun (Christian Camargo) leads his forces and they've come for the witches living with the Alkenny. The tribe fights back but is forced to flee and season one is mostly Baba, Maghra and their children fleeing from Tamacti Jun while Queen Sibeth (Sylvia Hoeks) of Paya deals with an insurrection from her nobles.
Season two turns it around as Maghra becomes Queen of the Payans but now the Trivantes, a much bigger kingdom, threatens to conquer the Payan Kingdom and it turns out the Trivantian general Edo Voss (Dave Bautista) is both Baba's brother who hates Baba and secretly uses sighted assets.
Season three continues that line. Edo was defeated but his lieutenant Tormada (David Hewlett) gains control of Edo's faction and with a fearsome new weapon (bombs) he plans to conquer Paya himself and eventually allies with former Queen Sibeth and her small following.
It's a low-tech series. It does the blindness part fairly well and seems sort of realistic though the fight scenes are a bit cinematic. It's quite bloody and graphic though it kind of limits it to three or four episodes each season. The overall story is ok and each main character has their arc. Ending is fitting and leaves a few questions open for a subsequent series should there be one, even a series that is set a generation later.
Overall a pretty good series.
[Previous review after watching season one.]