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The North Water( 2021)

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Those who journey here will find only themselves.

Overview

Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

  1. Andrew Haigh

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Colin Farrell

    Henry Drax

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    Jack O'Connell

    Patrick Sumner

Current Season

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Miniseries

2021 | 5 Episodes

Miniseries of The North Water premiered on Jul 14 2021

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A review by Timefox881

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Written by Timefox881 on Tue Aug 03 2021
I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered this and was instantly drawn into the world. For a few days after watching it, I kept thinking of that terrible boat and how paranoid and claustrophobic it was. Colin Farrell is great. Unrecognizable as an animalistic brute terrorizing first the streets of Hull, then the corridors and deck of a creaky whaling ship. But is everything as it seems? Jack O'Connell plays Patrick Sumner, a doctor with a past battling a morphine addiction. Impending doom looms as large and inevitable as morphine withdrawals....

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Videos 2Backdrops 16Posters 13

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Facts

Status

Ended

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • based on novel or book
  • opium
  • drug addiction
  • psychopath
  • murder
  • marooned
  • whaling
  • north pole
  • irishman
  • ex soldier
  • 19th century
  • ship's doctor
  • eskimo
  • arctic
  • ex army surgeon
  • harpooner
  • 1850s
  • war flashback
  • laudanum