The North Water (2021)

Directed by

Andrew Haigh

Genre

drama, mystery

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 177 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A disgraced former army surgeon joins a whaling expedition in the Arctic. The voyage turns dangerous when he clashes with a brutal harpooner.

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What happens

The North Water is a 2021 five-part television miniseries based on Ian McGuire's 2016 novel of the same name written and directed by Andrew Haigh and starring Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell. An international co-production between British public broadcaster BBC, and Canadian English-language public broadcaster CBC Television, in association with Canadian premium television channel Super Channel and CBC Television's French-language counterpart ICI Radio-Canada Télé, the series first premiered in the United States on AMC+ on 15 July 2021 before premiering in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 10 September 2021 and in Canada on Super Channel Fuse a week later on 19 September, followed by a nationwide broadcast in the country on CBC Television in English and ICI Radio-Canada Télé in French, with video on demand availability on the CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV services in both respective languages. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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