The North Water

Why tonight?

• ◆One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
• ◆It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.

The story

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.

• based on novel or book
• opium
• drug addiction
• psychopath
• murder
• marooned
• whaling
• north pole
• irishman
• ex soldier