Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Strangely topical story of a British mission to set up a new global trade system which is doomed but they've come too far to stop.Wow, I thought to start with - for once, you can't see where the set ends and the CGI starts. The costumes, sets and ethnic and historical details may or may not be accurate, but they're certainly convincing. The sense of 'being a witness', at least on the ships Terror and Erebus, is real. Slow, but you know what's coming. Or think you do.One by one, each of the stiff-upper-lipped crew, prime quasi-British luvvies to a man-jack, is going to starve, go mad, or... eh? Have gay sex? Ok, fine, must have happened, it's 2018 not 1845. But hey! Let's have more of the personality breakdowns, the Victorian medical issues, the hopeless bible-thumping, the gay love gone wrong - and oh. The magic giant invisible polar bear. Yes, you read correctly. A giant invisible polar bear that delivers seal meat to the igloo of the Inuit woman whose father the Marines shot, thinking he was the giant polar bear. I'm up to Ep03 and I fear this is going to get worse. I hope there aren't puppets to come.What a waste! There was absolutely NO NEED to supernatural it up; what were the producers smoking? No, really. What were they smoking, because the only explanation for the way this exciting, suspenseful, tragic and mysterious story turns into sort of Alien:1845 is that somebody turned up in the script room with a bag of prime weed. That or they got lead poisoning.There are good bits, but it's like picking weevils out of a mouldy ship's biscuit.Ultimately guilty of a completely self-indulgent failure to entertain and the definition of disappointing.

The atmosphere is marvelous, but early in the first episode one of the crewmen says that as soon as the ships get past King William Island they'll be along the American coast. I can understand him not knowing how far it was from King William Island to Alaska, but I cannot forgive the writers for not knowing that America would not buy Alaska from Russia for another 20 years!

Great show ... the monster its to cliché ...thats the only flaw !

Once I started watch this, I thought, this is really well thought out, great acting and actors portraying characters of the time. Ok a bit slow, but building. Then, by around the last third of the show, I realised that it has what all shows and films of this day and age suffer from, RAMMING A MESSAGE DOWN OUR THROATS! Of course I carried on watching as I'd invested time watching the previous episodes, but especially the last episode just made me laugh. White British explorers are totally and absolutely evil and hateful, though the Natives are lovely accommodating people, never putting a foot wrong, making the captain question himself and his country and go native, yeah, right! Why can't these film or tv makers just make a realistic show? Ah yes, because it would offend far too many activists!! But I tell you what, if they did, the reviews would be great, because normal people don't get offended by ridiculous things, such as historical events portrayed correctly.