Creators
Shaun Grant,
Justin Kurzel
Cast
Jacob Elordi,
Ciarán Hinds,
Odessa Young,
Olivia DeJonge,
Heather Mitchell,
Show Kasamatsu,
Simon Baker
Genre
Drama,
War & Politics
The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.
IndieWire by Ryan Lattanzio
This is a world of blood and viscera, body fluids, and entrails, and Kurzel is going to show you all of it. And with a brilliant cast of actors, you’ll want to keep going where this road promises to take you.
Decider by Claire Waheed
The Narrow Road To The Deep North is a gritty, powerful watch with striking imagery and riveting performances that sometimes read as subtle in all the best ways.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
There’s a lingering soulfulness here that feels new to Kurzel’s work, distilled in an intensely moving lead performance from Jacob Elordi.
The Times by Carol Midgley
This series is terrific and on occasion magnificent. Its ability to tell a sprawling, epic story over three timelines in five shortish episodes (admirable in the era of the 14-parter) and tell us something new about a war is commendable.
The New York Times by Margaret Lyons
There’s a visceral quality to most scenes — the clammy humidity, the golden warmth of a sandy beach, the icy sterility of a gray office — as the show teases out the pains and pleasures of the body along with its grander ideas about the mind, the heart, the world, war. “Narrow” is patient, but it isn’t slow.
Collider by Isabella Soares
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a tough watch, but one that doesn't hold back from displaying the cruelty of war and the dangers of blind ambition.
The Telegraph by Tim Robey
Hinds is already a mighty force in it, but we wait for the biggest tests regarding Elordi. His laconic restraint, which has so much potential, needs to judder and implode to give the whole story a core. If he gets us there, it will be unmissable.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Kurzel handles the material with confidence and storytelling verve and gets fervent, focused performances from Elordi, Hinds and Young.
The Playlist by Marshall Shaffer
Kurzel’s surveys of their gaggle, often from above in some form of coordinated motion, are exhilarating demonstrations of fraternal belonging that pop against the show’s desaturated color palette. The show could stand to humanize them a bit further, though. Only Dorrigo’s chum Frank Gardiner (Thomas Weatherall) stands out from the undifferentiated masses.
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