‘See’ Season 2 review: The art of survival is given a new force in Apple TV+ drama
The Hindu
Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista face off in this gritty and apocalyptic continuation
I have always felt that See was one of 2019’s dark horse series; it just did not get the love it deserved. The show pulled itself out of the box of ‘sensory deprivation’ themes which feature in films such as A Quiet Place and Bird Box, and spun its own riveting tale with plenty of bone-crunching, blood-spattering action. . The series follows a post-apocalyptic world where everybody has lost the ability to see. The Alkenny tribe led by Baba Voss (Jason Momoa) births a set of sighted twins which leads to a series of battles, political upheavals and more chaos triggered by the opposing Queek Kane (Sylvia Hoeks). The end of season one reveals there are more children in the world born with sight. And to top of the mayhem, Baba’s own brother, Edo, from a neighbouring tribe placed a bounty on him. So season one left a lot of loose ends that were frustratingly left unanswered for more than a year, thanks to the pandemic.
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