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See was a very entertaining sci-if series led by Jason Momoa. I have to admit that when I first read the premise about a world full of blind people at war with one another I didn't think I would like it. Then after seeing the trailers and that Momoa was in it my expectations rose. Well, after finishing the series I can say that those expectations weren't on,y met but were exceeded. I couldn't stop watching this. Sure some if it is unbelievable but it's sci-fi, it's suppose to be. Bautista was also a great addition to the cast in the second season. He was perfect in his role as Momoa's brother. It's too bad that it was only three seasons long but they couldn't really go anywhere else with the story without overstaying its welcome. At least it didn't end on a cliffhanger. Bottom line is I really liked the show overall and recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, sci-fi or action.

I absolutely cannot stand this character. The constant screaming like a little kid. I dread every single scene she is in. Absolutely awful.

I enjoyed it all the to the last episode. Again like GOT I was let down. Almost everyone's ending could have been better. At the end again I thought it was a giant waste of my time but because of the baba I keep my review at 8. Amazing from the beginning to the end. Once the show is over I almost thought only the scenes that he was in them were thoroughly awesome. Although queens husband to be fair played his role well. The children did a horrible job specially the boy. It felt like he was a new grad from acting school. Girl was bad too but not as bad as the boy and their mom was alright. Not sure what else can be said about this show.

See is really an awesome series, led by great acting, interesting characters and interesting world, even if this last aspect could've been more developed.

It has 3 seasons. The first two are absolute gems, especially the second one, with great character building, awesome acting (to the point if you wonder if Jason Momoa even acts or that's just, like, him) and great villains (evil Queen is about the most despicable character in tv history, along with Geoffrey Baratheon).

The show finds perfect balance between adventure, impossible odds in a very hostile world, and the equality immense love and strength that you can find in a nuclear family (parents & children), a strength that can overcome everything and that can be only mirrored in the opposition between siblings.

The show wrapped up nicely, and at the right time, as it was clearly out of breath/ creativity, regarding the opposition our heroes have to face, with absurd characters behavior, impossible physics and things that just seem to materialize out of thin air. A clear step down from season 1 and, especially, season 2.

The setting is also pretty interesting, a world where the vast majority is blind, for some unknown reason, and sight is punishable by death. We don't know what happened, when it happened, why it happened. And the show limits itself at the classical apocalypse trope, without pressing the question. That world deserved a bit more explanation.

Maybe we'll have another show in the same setting ?

In any case respect to Apple for producing some of the greatest shows of the past years, with great production, great characters, great acting and great story. "See" is up there with "for all mankind", "foundation", "shantaram", "severance" and "silo", even better than a few of them too.

I would have given it a ten but the queen is super annoying !

This is one of the best series I have ever seen. You will find a completely different world and also different people. The main idea of this work was very nice. I watched its all seasons and love it, the ideas inside this movie was brilliant. I think the final episode could be better, and the story line had potential to grow more. I am an English language learner, and this series helped me a lot, because the people are blind, so they speak very clear and it helped me to improve my language skills with listening. As an English learner in my opinion this can be one of the best options for practicing language skills.

See is an interesting show with beautiful opening & soundtrack, premise, story, photography and battle sequences. Do not compare it with what your memory may deceptively offer you.

It's not reality, it's not even fictional reality, it has its own world, its own logic. You either like it, follow the storyline without too much thinking and rationalization or you don't. Many reviewers hint about the show's logic, fluidity of their movements, their cloths...

Forget about that, do not search for a hidden truthful logic or lack of it. It is the way it is after centuries of blindness; they have adapted quite well, have stronger olfactive and tactile senses, they do whatever they aim to do, each of them in his/her own level and they sense well presence of friends and foe, even in combat actions. You just get that from their behavior, you need to accept it the way it is or science-fiction shows are most surely not meant for you.

Having said that, I have to tell that the series is not impressive, it is just well-done. The cast does a good job, some more than the others (like Baba Voss,Queen Kane, Witchfinder Warrior...)

IMO, what the series suffers from is lack of depth. It needs a stronger material, deeper storyline or the same would be dragged to season 2.

That's why even though the cast does a good job, the actors and actresses don't shine and are not impressive in the general sense of acting. Among them, though, the Queen and Witchfinder deliver a much stronger performance because of the power-hungry craziness and unique acting of the former and the presence, well-chosen words and speaking of the latter.

Jason Momoa is impressive physically as well as in battles and a good actor too, IMO. His character brings honor to the show and that was a pleasure to watch. I never thought that I would be happy to see him in one specific scene, but it did and brought a smile to my face too. Good writing.

All in all, See is a good show; just not to everybody's taste and has room for improvement to make it unforgettable.

The idea was so fresh and promising! But the execution.. make it rough! Those people are blind and don't even know what it means to be able to see! Their world looks too good for a blind people world, they dress to well and they even color their clothes. It makes it boring and the initial idea is completely wasted.

It seems like the screen writers completely disregarded the blindness in the second season. So now it's just an ordinary medieval show, so it's easy to compare it with other shows of that sort. I'm just waiting for a dragon to appear.

And I agree, that the queen and Haniwa are sooooooo sooo annoying!

Why would the parliament dye their robes orange if everyone was blind? Why the massive time jump from e1 to re2? Why would Alkeens do a haka dance (which is a visual display of strength) against blind people?? I mean it's a kinda fun show, and the blind (Momoa) vs. blind fights are cool but it's not convincing in its world building.

With every season this show sadly becomes more terrible to a degree that I feel stupid for wasting my time watching it. Very bad dialogues character build and development unrealistic behaviors that made me wonder why will people be acting this way. I really hoped this show had stopped with the first season.

The third season was the worst by far. It gives you a sense that the writers have nothing to offer other than milking the show to make money at least this is what I felt, and that's why fully written tv series are far superior than (let's start shooting and see how far we can go). I gave it two stars because of the first season otherwise 1.

'Queen hum ha' is the most irritating and robotic actor allowed to be seen on a potentially epic show and whom ever put her in the show nevermind as queen kane should have their job examined as well. Her acting is outdone by the sighted kid who tells the soldiers where baba voss is when he intrudes. I understand that her character is in need to be seen disliked but wow!!! I love Scarlett Johansson and I would of put her in this position before ever giving. Sylvia Hoeks a job whatsoever. Even sitting here alone watching I'm mocking her out loud with her hum hah bah bluh bluh blaaah! Lines that she goes through as if the whole show rests on her self righteous completely annoying voice and rambling annoying verses of what I can't explain as anything other than pain to my ears and head. The best thing they could do with her is QUICKLY kill her character and maybe even like the crow lol!

First of all i think there's too many negative reviews the show is just starting the idea is promising and has a lot of potential i can understand that some people can't swallow the dynamics of blind world but you can't unveil all the series mysteries in 3 episodes give it time and it can develop into a great show i would rather watch a series with a good start and then develop into an epic ending rather than starting with a great pilot then 8 season later ends in a disaster

Fair enough this is set in the future but very hard to park a logical brain and go with the flow. After every few minutes you question how xyz is possible if everyone is blind. A difficulty with engaging story lines means there is an over reliance on brutal gratuitous violence every few minutes. Perhaps being blind means you have to completely obliterate your opponent to ensure they are actually dead. Anyone trying to navigate their own home during a night time power cut would rightly question the show. They had to have the evolution of sighted characters to keep the series going. It also takes real skill to have a 'baddie' character as annoying as the Queen. With vocals as horrific as a nail on a blackboard given the violence she should have been bumped off immediately. The stars are for Momoa who at least had some opportunity to display a tender side much rewound even if only the audience could enjoy it!

I thought this show was fantastic. The premise of the world is great - and the plot continuously moves in a well planned and meaningful direction.

There is a great web of themes - family, progress, tradition, the dangers of modernity, the benefits of modernity - and at the same time it is a compelling story of a family.

I loved the characters - rich, interesting, fun, and I felt a real sense of connection with them.

The filming is incredible - the scenes are beautiful and grab the eye. You just love to keep watching.

Definitely watch this show. It is way underrated and it something really special!

People already judging this show before it even explains everything. well to me it seems people are very fkn annoyed that these people have been blind for a long time and most people adapt to their environment. I honestly have no idea either but so far the story itself is getting very good. Give it a go u won't regret it.

If you try to rationalize this show it's gonna suck but it was very entertaining especially for the first season. Third season is pretty terrible. One of my main problems is that the sighted kids continually get their asses kicked in combat haha. They should be completely dominating in the battlefield yet they constantly can't hold their own.

The queen is one of the most annoying characters in all of tv. I hate her character but not in a good way like we hate Cersei Lannister because there is some respect for her. Jason Mamoas character is the only thing good about this show at this point and there shouldn't be a season 4. Season one laid out a cool concept and they ruined it.

Either you take on the basic premise or you don't bother watching fantasy/SF. My review is in a way about myopic reviewers as much as about the production.

Why complain that blind people "couldn't possibly" do stuff (including things that blind people in the here and now actually do) while being fine with various supernatural powers? One of the main characters, Paris gets sudden precognitions, states that she sees multiple futures, and actually is addressed once or twice as "presage".

Anyway, of course there actually could be a post-apocalypse population of blind people, if they are a tiny society in the material remains of a vast global population that already got rid of most dangerous critters and left all sorts of useful materials (like "godbone") literally lying around. Have people forgotten that there are animals that effectively have no sight? Animals without big brains.

As to what blind people can and can't do, the ignorance shown in some reviews is shocking: People's abilities to navigate and to do whatever they do, vary. But this is a society that would have either started off with newly blind survivors being mentored by people who were already anyway blind, or else just no sighted babies being born, and the remnant sighted people trying to adapt a world for their children before they die. They would expect competence. This would explain why an area with a population of millions has by the time of the series got "cities" of a few thousand, armies of a few hundred.

So: some objections by other reviewers.

1. Blind people wouldn't have, or be able to use, open fires? There are still, even now, large parts of the planet where live flame is the only option and where rates of blindness can be quite high. People do what they must. Yes, blind people do burn their food or themselves at times. Yes, they sometimes bump into things - bump their hands a lot, too. Yes, they do sometimes get cut, get lost, or trip and fall over. (Not all of the facial scars in See are to be read as made on purpose). But this is life, they just get on with it. There would be a "right way" to set up a fireplace and any seating so that anyone could be safe. The home cookfire, the street brazier, the camp fire - each with its protocol throughout a given region: such as where you'd site it, where in relation to the fire are the ladles or tongs or seating etc.

Blind people who are used to cooking with live fire know by character of heat, smell and sound what the state of the fire is - flames, glowing coals, etc. The characters of the series always put their fire in a container - a brazier, a cauldron or within a high kerb. They know exactly where each indoor fire is because everything in the indoor spaces is organised to a consistent pattern in each community.

2. Can't make stuff? Ask yer granny. Generations of women (and fishermen) used to walk around knitting and chatting - they already will knit a pullover while barely looking at what they are doing. Why presume that blind people could not make clothes? Or weapons? Post-apocalypse, it's not like they need to mine the ore. (A repurposed car leaf-spring seems to be popular in the world of See.) In the UK, until just a few years ago, there were a couple of furniture factories where the workforce were blind. The furniture was made for sighted people, so it looked like any other furniture. There are many blind handweavers. There is at least one blind potter who is also a hand amputee; he does demos. If you watch a sighted seamstress construct kimono the traditional way, you will see that she literally could do everything - marking, pinning, stitching - with her eyes shut *using the very same techniques*. Children working in dim light on tiny 19th C stitching not uncommonly went blind from it - and many simply continued the same work. There are a few people blind from birth who can use sewing machines (although computerisation and touchscreen technology will make make this harder.)

The people of the story wear their seams inside out as both comfortable for touch-sensitive people, and as decorative for the hand to feel. Their seam stitching is large - doubling as embroidery. The queen's whitish dress carries the bloodstains from more than one murder because no-one is doing stain removal. I do wonder why some if their fabric is a deep solid red colour, and some mustard colours, though, unless like the queen's bed-quilt of a gown, it is old, rediscovered fabric. God knows, many of our synthetic clothes will probably be dug out of landfill centuries from now. Or maybe they like to use scented rinses that dye things coincidentally. Maybe in future shows, the sighted youngsters will be able to recognise other sighted people who have chosen colourful clothes...?

3. Can't do battle/ move in formation. Why presume that people who necessarily train with weapons as children for self-defence (no police, no jails) would be unable to form up ranks - in streets that have overhead guidelines and dangling signposts? (In one real mediaeval battle, Bannockburn, frontline troops came down a dark, heavily wooded ridge before sunrise - in files 20 deep - by holding their long spears horizontally as a continuous guiderail.). Getting into formation and moving as a group would be a major part of the square-bashing bootcamp training of a blind army, just as has been for a couple of thousand years. And yes, blind people can ride horses.

Blind individuals often navigate busy city blocks to the square foot by noticing how the air current changes at doorways, edges of buildings, intersections. How much easier to move in formation, when keeping to a "shoreline" is delegated to specialist/outliers? As to knowing who is who in battle? In a group out on the street, I was identified by a blind couple of students as being in the group, without me saying a word, because of my quiet steps, shorter stride and my breath sounds/cough at a certain height (I'm very petite). This was a couple who had only met me once or twice. The world of See is brutal; why would they demur at losing people to friendly-swipe deaths anyway? When have governments or generals ever surrendered a war because casualties among common soldiers are distressing?

War face paint? Not exactly: it is the local dirt, it smells of "us" or "this place", and it is wet, making the face slippery, hard to orient to and hard to grab. If you are about to cut a throat or break a neck, the face muck could save a friend who can't gasp "chet-chet". Baba Voss has a habit of scraping up gravel, dirt, ice and throwing it in a rising arc: or even shaking the blood off his sword and listening for how far away and how close it splats. This diagonal sonar pulse tells him exactly the direction and distance of his opponent. To misdirect this kind of move is also why he likes to slide low along the ground, or to feint by making sounds with the tip of his weapon at arms length.

You don't need to "believe" anything about blind people, even if you don't know any. On youtube is an interesting video of two blind guys who agree to meet the filmmaker in busy urban area that they have never been to: this is before gps was personally feasible. They were only slightly late. One of them likes hiking mountain trails, which he does without any sighted person. There's other videos of a boy of around 12-13 playing in his suburban street, running around parked cars easily: even cycling. At a distance, indistinguishable from any other kid.

Almost passed this up because of all the bad reviews, glad I didn't, this is a pretty good fantasy series, through 3 episodes anyway, everyone taking it way too serious, just enjoy the world they have created.

and if humans were blind for several thousand years, they would adapt,

While it's definitely a challenge to suspend disbelief and ignore the many oversights other reviewers have already mentioned (ex: how/why the blind dress in matching colors, use lighting, have the ability to differentiate the enemy from their own in battle & somehow always know where to strike in space, practice falconry, etc), if you're able to disregard all of this the show is otherwise very good.

Apart from the over-acting of the evil queen, and flaws mentioned above, I found the actors & actresses to be top notch, the battles very exciting & unique , the plot lines & dystopian world interesting, the complexity of characters intriguing, & the CG visually stunning.

My only other gripe is the writers decision to not explain to the viewers the backstory regarding certain characters & pertinent story elements... such as the details surrounding the plague that led to the death of most of the world's population / how only a select few were spared their vision & able to produce children who can also see / the origin of the silent shadow people and the purpose of the white paint they cover themselves with.

The ratings under 6 are completely unfair and likely from users who either didn't watch the show beyond an episode, or lack the imagination to suspend their disbelief. Give the show a chance and you'll likely find it to be quite entertaining.

It will be much better if we can get rid of the two most annoying characters Queen Kane and Haniwa.

People are blind but women still have the need to wear makeup, bride hair, put decorations on clothes and head. Go figure...