See review – Jason Momoa guts people for fun in Apple TV+'s lethal, sensual saga

Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight brings us a brutal, blood-spattered and often hilarious fantasy set in a world where everyone is blindA strong contributor to Apple TV+’s day-one roster of original dramas, See wisely doesn’t attempt to explain its premise via awkward dialogue. Instead, opening captions dive straight in, so let’s do the same: we’re hundreds of years in the future, but life has been medieval ever since a 21st-century virus killed all but a couple of million humans. The survivors were not only left blind, but passed this on to their descendants, who have come to believe that human sight is a heretical myth. Now, in a humble mountain community hemmed in by trees and ravines, a child, fathered by a mysterious stranger, is about to be born …Leading that community – the Alkeny – is Jason Momoa, a virtually inevitable piece of casting in the role of fearsome warrior chief Baba Voss. Nobody sports braids, scars and a viscera-flecked calfskin cape with as much hairy authority as Momoa. When he blows a bone-horn, it stays blown. And the Alkeny are going to need all the help they can get, as they’re about to be forced out of their alpine hideout and into the wider world where strangers’ first instinct is to hack at your throat and steal your womenfolk. They also have a traitor or two in their midst, and a doozy of a parenting dilemma on the horizon. Continue reading…
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