
The North Water
2021
Synopsis
A disgraced former military doctor embarks as a surgeon aboard a whaler bound for the Arctic, where his quest for redemption becomes a fight for survival.
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Cast

Jack O'Connell
Patrick Sumner

Colin Farrell
Henry Drax

Sam Spruell
Cavendish

Roland Møller
Otto

Gary Lamont
Webster

Philip Hill-Pearson
McKendrick
Gerry Lynch
Cook

Stephen Graham
Captain Brownlee

Kieran Urquhart
Jones
Simon Rubaudo
Bannon
Greg Dennis
Cooper
Magnus Constable
Whaler
Guillaume Cotre-Roux
Whaler

Andrés Durán
Whaler
Andrea Glattfelber
Whaler
Martin Rasmussen
Whaler
Kristoffer Ronning
Whaler
Lars Ronning
Whaler
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Comments
10 Comments

It's fimed... fine. It's dark and gritty but what isn't grimdark these days? It treats viewers like idiots. Everything is explicitly told to us, wasting the first half of the first episode in revealing the dark secrets. The details of the doctor's past are, by the time they decide we need to be actually shown it in flashback, boring and a further waste of time. I am surprised they kept to budget, with everyone chewing up the scenery so much. Really, really over-acted at every scene. Colin Farrell is perhaps the worst offender, and helped with an insane script. Your average Batman villain is less overt about their evil motivations. Oh, and telegraphs their moves less overtly. The degree to which several victims do not see it coming makes them appear stupid and drains the drama from the scene, and the show. The doctor is saved from death... what? Three times? Why? How is this developing his character at all? I only wish it was a little worse, so I could tell in the first episode it wasn't going to get better, and could stop watching. Annoyed I watched it all.

Annoying accents and characters that you need to use subtitles to understand what most of them are saying. Boring drawn out scenes eg the polar bear.







