This mini-series has lots to offer: great acting from Farrell and Graham, and authentic locations and period, but the story is unfocused and there are so many themes thrown around I just couldn't decide what the point was.
What starts out to be a fraud sparks a murder and a chase, it's a hunt and a survival piece, with almost equal footing given to flashbacks that do nothing to drive the story, it's an odyssey and a sermon and so many other things.
In the end no one theme was strong enough to pull me in. Instead it felt like a confused jumble of high ideas thrown together.
Yet it is perhaps worth watching for the scenery and the acting. Or just watch a nature doc on the Arctic.
What starts out to be a fraud sparks a murder and a chase, it's a hunt and a survival piece, with almost equal footing given to flashbacks that do nothing to drive the story, it's an odyssey and a sermon and so many other things.
In the end no one theme was strong enough to pull me in. Instead it felt like a confused jumble of high ideas thrown together.
Yet it is perhaps worth watching for the scenery and the acting. Or just watch a nature doc on the Arctic.