Through the Hollow Men, Apple TV’s The Gorge gives us a visual depiction of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” who, in his poem, speak about men who are dead on the inside and have nothing, but guilt and shame left within them. In the film, these lost souls are a manifestation of their inner malice and insatiable desires that have corrupted their hearts and blurred their consciousness, filling them with an eternal darkness that cannot be contained. These creatures have somehow survived death, but in the process lost their humanity. Wandering on the surface like a mindless fog, they want to remake the world in their own image, just like the biochemical virus mentioned in the film. During the Second World War, the Eastern and the Western forces joined hands to stop one ruthless dictator, but in their zeal to do so, they created something more monstrous than the world had seen before.