See
Apple TV+ | Release Date: November 1, 2019
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
12
Negative:
10
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TV GuideLiam MathewsOct 28, 2019
Season 1 Review: The grand cinematography of the Canadian wilderness is beautiful. But for the most part, See proves that all the money in the world can't save a dud script. ... Nothing in the show works. Read full review
30
Vox.comAllegra FrankNov 1, 2019
Season 1 Review: See is a lightly sci-fi trip through bland environments fronted by forgettable characters who exist according to some bizarre rules. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertOct 31, 2019
Season 1 Review: The story doesn’t gel well, and the video-game-like combat sequences can be exhausting. “See” is a camp-watch, and not much more. Read full review
30
The New York TimesMike HaleOct 31, 2019
Season 1 Review: Care was taken in the hiring of performers and consultants to make the presentation of blindness convincing. But no one seems to have done the more difficult, and boring, work of really thinking through how to make the premise convincing onscreen. For an Apple product, it’s a startling failure of engineering. Read full review
30
VarietyDaniel D'AddarioOct 29, 2019
Season 1 Review: It is at best a fairly lazy copy of more effective genre entertainments’ tone, with messy and underbaked story filling in the gaps. Read full review
30
CNNBrian LowryOct 29, 2019
Season 1 Review: Saying it's not worth watching "See" is a little too easy. Still, with apologies to the owls, this show is strictly for the birds. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeOct 29, 2019
Season 1 Review: The majority of Knight’s series is a self-serious dirge, where sight-based wordplay like “So they just walk around with their eyes closed?” is delivered with a straight face. In the end, See’s myriad absurdities somehow add up only to a run-of-the-mill dystopia, where the children are the “chosen ones” and the tyrant must be overthrown. Read full review
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TVLineDave NemetzOct 28, 2019
Season 1 Review: See relies on graphically gory battle scenes to carry a largely incoherent story, but I found myself giggling far more often than its creators intended. You almost have to admire its goofy confidence… as wrongheaded as it might be. Read full review
20
SlateWilla PaskinOct 29, 2019
Season 1 Review: Violent, grim, and exceptionally silly. It’s Bird Box meets Game of Thrones, but stupider. Read full review
10
TimeJudy BermanOct 29, 2019
Season 1 Review: The execution, particularly in scripts by Steven Knight (of January’s box-office bomb Serenity), is an unmitigated disaster. ... Not to put too fine a point on it, See is one of the worst TV series I’ve seen in years. Read full review
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