10 episodes, good reviews. Ridley Scott executive producing, Ciarán Hinds (Rome, Game of Thrones), Tobias Menzies (Rome, Game of Thrones).
"It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to force the Northwest Passage. In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a