{"id":2609,"date":"2021-09-01T17:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:50:04","slug":"the-north-water-this-aint-your-daddys-moby-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/the-north-water-this-aint-your-daddys-moby-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"“The North Water”: This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Moby Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So Ian McGuire’s novel of 2015, The North Water<\/em>, is one of the best of that decade. It’s demented and visual, a twisted contrast to such polar adventure tales such as Shackleton’s Endurance<\/em>. Now it’s a miniseries of five episodes, and I can report it’s actually Pretty Good. Great acting, terrific visuals. The malevolent star of the film is Colin Farrell’s character Henry Drax. Farrell does a great job pulling off this difficult character. He’s awful, but he’s compelling. He’s real. It’s a great revisionist Moby Dick<\/em> of sorts, twisted for our times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Ian McGuire’s novel of 2015, The North Water, is one of the best of that decade. It’s demented and visual, a twisted contrast to such polar adventure tales such as Shackleton’s Endurance. Now it’s a miniseries of five episodes, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t