Season one only: Jared Harris & Tobias Menzies knock it out of the park, everyone else does superbly (honorable mention to the guys who play Hickey/Goodsir). Actually the worst part about this is the supernatural element, just give me ten more hours of ambient ice floe cracking noise and everyone hallucinating their balls off due to lead poisoning.
A compelling historical drama anchored by excellent performances and an aura of authenticity. What sets this apart from the upteenth survival-drama-with-period-costumes is its valiant attempt at understanding morality in extreme situations. It pits the utilitarian against the moralist, socialism against libertarianism and individualism against collectivism. Whereas a film-length project would fail to adequately portray the slow derogation of social structure, as a mini-series this really shines.
A lot going on here. The reluctant captain with a tangible arc, monkey gum disease, era diving and some Inuit spirituality to keep you on your toes. Which leads me to the main takeaway - always eat people's soles.
S1. The Bounty on ice, with a nuclear Jared Harris performance: really some of the finest acting around. The acting and dialog all around was mostly magnificent and felt historically authentic, forging memorable characters and a feeling of euphoria to be so lucky to be time traveling to 1845. A victory of artistic quality in photography, music and sound design. I’m convinced it could’ve done without the predator but relieved it didn’t steal too much airtime and some of the gore did work well
GREAT show. Horror is hard to pull off in a serialized medium but this nails a sense of mounting dread and hopelessness, supernatural and otherwise. Great performances all around too and some really beautiful cinematography. Would NOT have been better without the monster.
David Kajganich
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