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The North Water

2021Show1 season · 5 episodesTV-MAEnded

DramaMystery
74
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.6Metacritic747.8
74
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.6Metacritic747.8

Summary

Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon, signs up as ship's doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic; on board he meets Henry Drax, the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Binge-friendly
  • Thought-provoking

Skip it if

  • You need an uplifting mood
  • You want fast pacing
  • Graphic violence bothers you

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Fingerprint

  • Weighs on you.
  • Feasts your eyes.
  • Leaves you shaken.
  • Pulls you in.
  • Breaks your heart.

Not for warmth, comfort or laughs.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Tropes

Dark Is Evilin 565 titlesDrax and Sumner share a subtle light/dark motif, made more overt by their hair colour and Drax's tendency to wear dark, shabby clothing.Artifact of Doomin 321 titlesThe ring Sumner finds on the ill-fated treasure hunt his superior Corbyn sent him on turns out to be this, albeit understated in the story's context.All 16 tropes

The North Water episodes

1 season · 5 episodes

  1. S1 E1 Behold the Man, 7.6
  2. S1 E2 We Men Are Wretched Things, 7.9
  3. S1 E3 Homo Homini Lupus, 8.1
  4. S1 E4 The Devils of the Earth, 7.9
  5. S1 E5 To Live Is to Suffer, 7.7

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