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Critic Reviews
The TelegraphSep 10, 2021
TV Guide MagazineJul 29, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Gripping. ... Joseph (Heart of Darkness) Conrad would approve. [2 - 15 Aug 2021, p.9]
Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
By the strength of its storytelling, the show eventually earns its darkest flourishes; it adds depth and real heft to its vision of the past as a land of monsters. In all, “The North Water” serves as a bracing plunge into inhumanity that’ll stick with you after its running time melts away.
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Jul 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
We suspect that the remaining four episodes of the limited series will pick up, as the ship actually fulfills its doomed mission as an insurance claim. But if you want to get a good idea about the main two characters, the first episode does a fine job setting things up.
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Jul 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It is, perhaps, a little longer and a little more restrained than it needed to be. Haigh’s ideas about society and human nature are legible and convincing, and his adventure tale is, moment by moment, plausible and engrossing. The two sides don’t quite come together with the force you’d like them to have, however — especially at its conclusion, “The North Water” feels like a story you’ve read before.
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RogerEbert.comJul 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Haigh’s “The North Water” possesses every psychological and humanist component required to elucidate the nature of good and evil, including all of the shades in between, but wastes too much effort trying to discover profound significance rather than fortifying its lackluster characters.
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The GuardianSep 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
For those who found The Terror – with its exploration of powerlessness, isolation and good v evil – too much in a time of powerlessness, isolation and overt battles between good and evil, The North Water is a warm bath. It occasionally shows pretensions to something greater.
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