Though it’s plenty punishing, AMC Plus’ new limited series “The North Water” has something richly escapist about it: The show, set on a whaling ship in the 1850s and shot within the Arctic Circle, creates a sense of chilliness that will permeate one’s bones on even the hottest summer night.
In this adaptation of Ian McGuire’s historical-fiction novel, Jack O’Connell plays Patrick Sumner, a British army surgeon running from his past; he signs on to be a doctor on a ship sailing north. What he doesn’t realize is that the ship houses not just scoundrels but the personification of evil. Henry Drax, played by Colin Farrell in a turn that’s outright feral, has some fundamental empathy or humanity missing, and fills that hole with all sorts of savage appetites. He sums it up by telling Sumner, “I’m a man like any other … give or take,...
In this adaptation of Ian McGuire’s historical-fiction novel, Jack O’Connell plays Patrick Sumner, a British army surgeon running from his past; he signs on to be a doctor on a ship sailing north. What he doesn’t realize is that the ship houses not just scoundrels but the personification of evil. Henry Drax, played by Colin Farrell in a turn that’s outright feral, has some fundamental empathy or humanity missing, and fills that hole with all sorts of savage appetites. He sums it up by telling Sumner, “I’m a man like any other … give or take,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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