‘Surface’ Season 2 Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Apple TV+ Show Returns With A Confident Reset After A Sleepy Season 1

Not to put too fine of a point on it, but the first season of “Surface,” the AppleTV+ show that both you and I forgot existed, was not great. A mystery/thriller in name only, it amalgamated the worst of parts of ‘prestige’ TV — faux pretentiousness, sleepy episodes, an unwillingness to actually answer any questions quickly — into a ponderous eight-hour dive into the mysteries of Sophie Ellis’ (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) life before she lost all of her long-term memory after falling off a ship (read our season one review, which is admittedly much more charitable than this assessment). Continue reading ‘Surface’ Season 2 Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Apple TV+ Show Returns With A Confident Reset After A Sleepy Season 1 at The Playlist.

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‘Surface’ Season 2 Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Apple TV+ Show Returns With A Confident Reset After A Sleepy  Season 1
'Surface' Season 2 Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Apple TV+ Show Returns With A Confident Reset After A Sleepy First Season‘Surface’ Season 2 Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Apple TV+ Show Returns With A Confident Reset After A Sleepy  Season 1

Not to put too fine of a point on it, but the first season of “Surface,” the AppleTV+ show that both you and I forgot existed, was not great. A mystery/thriller in name only, it amalgamated the worst of parts of ‘prestige’ TV — faux pretentiousness, sleepy episodes, an unwillingness to actually answer any questions quickly — into a ponderous eight-hour dive into the mysteries of Sophie Ellis’ (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) life before she lost all of her long-term memory after falling off a ship (read our season one review, which is admittedly much more charitable than this assessment).

Continue reading ‘Surface’ Season 2 Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Apple TV+ Show Returns With A Confident Reset After A Sleepy Season 1 at The Playlist.