Rating: TV-MA | Runtime: 104 minutes
Release Date: November 14th, 2025 (USA)
Studio: Apple TV+
Director(s): Ryan White
Writer(s): Ryan White

At the very least …

If you want to understand the vibe of Ryan White’s Come See Me in the Good Light, look no further than when another patient waiting outside the hospital asks Andrea Gibson what the film crew is doing. Their response: “I don’t know, he just started following me.” It’s a laugh met by the sweetest reply from that unseen person saying they aren’t surprised because Andrea is a knock-out. That mix of joyous fun and heartfelt empathy is felt throughout.

Because the journey (and real reason for the film crew) isn’t a happy one even if it does remain hopeful. While eventually showing the run-up to Andrea’s first live poetry show since canceling their tour due to an ovarian cancer diagnosis, it’s really about the struggle surviving that disease, rebuilding their identity with it, and living with love alongside their wife Megan Falley. We learn everything about Andrea’s art, career, queerness, and marriage en route to the inevitable.

The highs and lows of their health scare become chapter markers rather than the substance, though. They provide the intro to a new revelation about Andrea’s past and/or present delivered with an acerbic wit and, often, magnificent prose. It’s all extremely intimate and vulnerable as the two subjects wait and read test results, joke with friends (many of whom are Andrea’s exes), and speak their writing aloud in ways that express the importance of each word.

I really loved when Andrea, while helping edit Megan’s memoirs, pushes their wife to remember that the book is about her. It should speak to her experience with their cancer, not their cancer. It’s a simple yet necessary distinction that the film proves in its depiction of the reverse. Megan and the others are crucial as mirrors and support, but Andrea is at the center dictating pace and tone. Their emotions are the focal point and they hit much harder as a result.

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Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, premiering globally on Apple TV+ November 14, 2025.