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DIRECTOR’S NOTE

As a kid I used to always wish I had a superpower – that I could fly, like Superman. Or freeze time, like Evie in the TV show Out Of This World. I’d have even settled for Wonder Woman’s Bulletproof bangles to be honest. And then I realized I was just…ordinary. Which was shit.

Who wants to be average. Just another smalltown sexually awkward teenager drowning in a sea of hormones (called school) where everyone else seemed to be so much more in control and at ease with themselves.

Those powers might have helped.

Being a teenager wasn’t great. Acne. High-pitched voice. Exams. It wasn’t an easy time. Being super would have helped. A lot.

I guess this is where The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam has grown from. It would be overly simplistic to say it’s part autobiographical. It’s not. I was never Sam. I never had a Violet. Or a Herbie for that matter. But I know who those people were at school, and the show owes a lot to them. They’ll know who they are. I hope.

The world of See Thru Sam is part naturalistic, part comic book, part melodramatic. His problems are huge, his processing is different, and it should feel like a celebration of this. Sam is different from everyone else and from my perspective that is always good.

This show is for every kid who feels like they should have been a superhero. In some ways you are.

Johnny McKnight, Writer and Director