The Trailer for 'The North Water' Promises Dark Whaling Drama

The trailer for the upcoming AMC+ limited series The North Water is here and it promises a dark story about the brutality of humanity set against a stunning frozen Arctic wasteland.

Full of blood, snow, and ominous music, the setting immediately calls to mind AMC's 2018 period series The Terror, which explored a more supernatural explanation for the horrors awaiting those who explored the icy north. (Though that story also featured its fair share of terrible people, as well - even if this one does look as though it will have a lot more blatant whale murder.)

The four-part The North Water, which will air on BBC Two in the U.K. later this Fall following its American streaming debut, is based on Ian McGuire's bestselling 2016 novel of the same name. Set in Hull, England, and on the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, the story follows Patrick Sumner (Jack O'Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who joins a whaling expedition to the Arctic with the brutal harpooner Henry Drax (Farrell).