The North Water

Very engaging period sea drama starring Jack O'Connell and Colin Farrell. Both are excellent here, Farrell is fearsome.

The plot follows a troubled ship's surgeon (O'Connell) on his first voyage aboard a whaling ship in the mid-19th century. He encounters some unsavoury characters with their own agendas.

The plot is good, the acting excellent, it's very realistic with the setting and style (and even a lot of the plot) being much like the series 'The Terror'. Worth a watch.

Didnt expect to find this gem!, if you're bored like me and stumbled on this review, take a chance. It has good acting, great landscape scenes and a believable story. I bet this one is going to end up with at least an 8.00 out of 10 score-wise.

Just raw 1800's whaling at its finest.

A dark and twisted tale with some fine acting and good production taking place in the cruel world of whale/seal hunters in the mid of the 19th century. Lots of blood, sweat, grease, crime and violence. A show for a mature audience without any unnecessary gimmicks - recommended if you like such shows like Taboo or The Terror, or movies like In the Heart of the Sea, the classic Moby Dick, The Revenant (DiCaprio), The Vanishing (Gerard Butler) and so on.

Well acted, great story. Very gritty.

Stephen Graham, brilliant as always.

One reviewer said they couldn't see anything on screen. Sounds like they need a new TV. They also said they couldn't understand the actors accents. It's set in Hull in 1859. How do you expect them to speak? With a plum in their mouths.

A subject that I don't think has had such a high production value put towards it, that being whaling. Even tho its only one of many themes appear in this story, I look forward to how they depict it.

They didn't hold back on the Sealing parts, so I expect a brutal and accurate depiction of what whalers did back then, how dangerous it was and depicting the types of people that gravitated towards it. Tho my ancestors where a whaling family in the 1800's early 1900's, So it could be a family type of business also back then. And they hired aboriginals for most of the help and paid them proper (Australian).

But back to the amazing pilot.

If the cast alone doesn't get your interested. Just give it a go for the first 15 mins. If you don't like the tone of the series which is very obvious from the get go. Then don't bother watching further and voting it down.

I'll be surprised if my rating changes from a 9, it anything it could be a 10/10 by the end. Stephen Graham and. Jack O'Connell are big draws for me. Graham is a seasoned actor and one of the best from the UK currently who is heavily under appreciated. And O'Connell I've really enjoyed in most of his films and he pushes what genres and types of projects he takes on. A proper actor which is not common and like Graham I think is underappreciated but he's been on the scene less time. Hopefully they both get their due sometime soon with big films but not anything disney related. Marvel, star wars etc.. Please no.

I did not mean to add this random extra bit about the actors and it being so long.. so im just going to finish up here. Just watch the show.