The north water book review5/28/2023 ![]() The North Water is on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, September 10 at 9pm. Its unnerving character studies, probing the psyches of these “refugees from civilisation,” pushed to the very extreme by their surroundings and each other, are not easily forgotten. The pace is slow and considered, especially as the journey to the Arctic begins, but if you’re hardy enough to persist, The North Water is richly rewarding. One crew member reminds a repulsed Sumner that these foul raw materials will soon ornament the sort of fine Victorian ladies we’re accustomed to seeing in costume drama, in the form of whalebone corsets and expensive perfumes. ![]() A sequence involving the battering and skinning of seals, whose bodies are then dragged across the snow, leaving bloody red trails in the whiteness, is unsparing in its gore when Drax finally spears his prey, a plume of scarlet springs into the air, then the whale’s strangely foamy blubber is methodically chopped up into tiny squares, drenching the deck in oily, stinking residue. The series was filmed on location in the Arctic / BBC/See-Saw Films/Nick WallĪt the same time, the director takes an almost forensic approach to the brutal, bloody business of whaling. ![]() New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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