Centuries after a deadly virus devastated humanity, the surviving population has adapted to a world without sight. Generations have passed, and the ability to see has faded so completely from human experience that it has become the stuff of myth, religion, and fear.
Baba Voss is the leader of the Alkenny tribe and the adoptive father of twins Haniwa and Kofun. Unlike everyone around them, the twins were born with the ability to see.
Their existence immediately places the family in danger.
Queen Sibeth Kane rules the Payan Kingdom through a combination of political and religious authority. Within her society, sight is treated as heresy, and Witchfinders hunt those believed to possess it. When word spreads that sighted children exist, Baba must protect his family from forces determined to find them.
Jason Momoa stars as Baba Voss, alongside Sylvia Hoeks as Queen Kane, Hera Hilmar as Maghra, Nesta Cooper as Haniwa, Archie Madekwe as Kofun, Christian Camargo as Tamacti Jun, and Alfre Woodard as Paris. Dave Bautista joins the series as Edo Voss.
Across three seasons, See expands beyond the survival of one family into conflicts between kingdoms, competing beliefs, political ambitions, and different ideas about what the return of sight could mean. Some see it as a gift. Others consider it dangerous, while those in power recognize how dramatically it could change their world.
The result is a dystopian story where a biological ability has become entangled with religion, persecution, warfare, knowledge, and control.
Why See Is on Love of Gothic
See combines dystopian science fiction with imagery and themes that overlap heavily with darker fantasy. Witchfinders, religious persecution, executions, ritual, prophecy, violent rulers, ruined remnants of the old world, and forbidden knowledge are woven throughout its setting.
Sight itself takes on an almost supernatural role. Something ordinary to the viewer has become feared, mythologized, and condemned as witchcraft, while those born with it risk persecution or exploitation.
The series also spends considerable time with death, brutality, fanaticism, family conflict, and struggles for power. Combined with its post-apocalyptic world and dark visual aesthetic, those elements give See plenty of relevance to the broader alternative audience represented on Love of Gothic.