- Network: Apple TV+
- Series Premiere Date: May 21, 2021
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This series has a serious public interest helping people with mental illness and it is indisputable that Harry will help to destigmatise it by speaking honestly and, yes, eloquently about his own. ... For all its clarity of vision and talk of a "universal condition", however, The Me You Can't See feels myopic on the burning issue that many, indeed most, people cannot afford years of therapy.
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If The Me You Can't See helps one person, this globe-spanning exercise was surely worth it. But strictly as a TV show, you're not missing much if you don't see it.
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This show struggles to make its case, growing more successful the more time elapses between Harry’s appearances. ... But for all that he is better-equipped to touch on the issues of the day, one leaves episodes of “The Me You Can’t See” with a sense of rootlessness.
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However real and affecting their experiences and difficulties are (and all those in Say It Out Loud are genuine, passionately articulated and frequently deeply moving), celebrity offerings valorise simply “telling your story”, not judging yourself and others, refusing to accept stigma and so on. Which is all well and good and necessary but does absolutely nothing to address how ordinary people are supposed to achieve this when the waiting lists for the services they need to access stretch to infinity.
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No television show is required to reflect absolutely everything all at once. But when it’s a show that claims to reflect a universal truth about pain and struggle, yet is dominated by those with unlimited access to counselling, medical professionals and sheer time to heal, it feels half-baked. The Me You Can’t See is full of people talking, but rarely about the things we desperately need to be talking about.