Below' Review: Josh Hartnett Battles a Sea Creature in Netflix's Likably Silly Newfoundland-Set Thriller

Netflix’s new six-episode thriller Below opens in 1986 in Newfoundland with a striking prologue: a family relocates by towing their entire house across a bay on a barge-like setup, only for something massive to surface in the water and threaten to sink it. Creator Jesse McKeown grounds the outlandish premise in real history of government resettlements, even as the series swings into creature-feature silliness with CG icebergs and accents. The show later jumps 40 years to Snook’s Arm, where Josh Hartnett’s Calvin Penney hauls floating ice instead of fishing, amid an upcoming vote to close the community.