You can now catch up with the first three episodes of a crime thriller that viewers have already praised as different to your typical copper fare.
Sight Unseen dropped across the pond last year and now finally has a streaming home in the UK, with episodes releasing weekly on Paramount Plus.
With ten episodes set to drop between now and August, the show follows Vancouver homicide detective Tess Avery (Dolly Lewis) who is forced to quit her job when an accident nearly kills her partner and leaves her clinically blind.
Everything changes for Tess when she’s put in touch with Sunny Patel (Agam Darshi), a volunteer on a visual assistance app.
Sunny is based thousands of miles away but remotely provides Tess with visual descriptions of what’s happening around her via a lapel camera.
With the help of Sunny down the line, Tess begins to return to her crime-solving line of work. What unfolds is a unique approach to the police procedural.
But little does Tess know, Sunny is reckoning with her own health diagnosis, with a case of agoraphobia that means she only leaves the house vicariously through those she helps through work.
The show was inspired by co-showrunner Kat Troubetzkoy, who made Sight Unseen alongside her half-sister Niko, and her own experience of sight loss.
After a party in her twenties, Troubetzkoy woke up with half her vision gone due to retinal detachment.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Without any warning, as a vain 20-something I was blind. I was bandaged and it took about three weeks for my vision to slowly return. I had to be guided by a family member.’
That experience and the 20-plus laser surgeries she underwent in the aftermath of it left Troubetzkoy aware of ‘seeing and our emphasis on what things look like’, which led to Sight Unseen.
What other thrillers are available to stream?
- The Devil’s Leap. The four-episode show follows climbing guide Paul (Philippe Bas) and his antagonistic teenage daughter Sara (Maïra Schmitt) on a trek which pits them against killers.
- Scrublands. A journalist investigates what he initially thinks is a straightforward story about a small town a year on a priest shooting dead five parishioners.
- A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. In the summer holidays before entering her last year of school, Pip decides to use her A-Level extended project to investigate an unsolved case.
- Countdown. Following the murder of a Department of Homeland Security agent, Nathan Blythe (Euphoria star Eric Dane) puts together a task force of agents from various agencies who are each known for their unconventional methods.
The show has generated rave reviews from those who have already tuned in to its two seasons, with Jordan Jrevy22 labelling it ‘different from the other cliché crime shows’ in their Google review.
Meanwhile, Jen C described it as an ‘excellent’ show, adding: ‘Absolutely worth the watch. Streamed all 10 episodes in 2 days.’
Lysa Schaffner shared their rave review, writing: ‘Loved this! Unique story, great back story characters and have loved every episode!
‘Refreshingly different from anything else, this crime series leaves you wanting more.’
‘This is a really unusual TV series,’ added Harry R. Corson. ‘It is one of the best new shows in a long time!! It is different, not like a lot of the shows still on air.’
Sight Unseen is streaming on Paramount Plus.
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