The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Series Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a towering achievement that revels in its atmospheric brutality
Though there’s usually always a sense of unflinching violence that laces the filmic work of director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Nitram, The Order), his debut detour into episodic television, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is considerably more blunt in its brutality. Perhaps because the prose at the series’ center – Richard Flanagan‘s winning novel…
Interview: The Narrow Road to the Deep North writer Shaun Grant and producer Jo Porter on bringing the acclaimed novel to the screen
Based on Richard Flanagan’s acclaimed 2013 novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful five-part series charting the life of Dorrigo Evans (played by Jacob Elordi as a young man and Ciarán Hinds as the older iteration), through his passionate love affair with his uncle’s wife (Odessa Young), his time held…