Netflix has just released ‘one of the year’s best series’

Featuring a Stranger Things star, the show is set in a small town on the Canadian island of Newfoundland.

The six-part limited show follows Calvin Penney (Hartnett), a big‑hearted but stubborn fisherman and single father of three. Living in a small town on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, he is haunted by his father's mysterious death decades ago.

When an unidentified sea creature begins terrorising his hometown, Calvin must fight to hold his close-knit community together.

Josh Hartnett in Below

Created by Jesse McKeown (a writer on The Sinner and The Umbrella Academy), the cast of the series also includes Kaleb Horn (Revival), Mackenzie Davis (Speak No Evil), Rohan Campbell (Silent Night, Deadly Night), Ruby Stokes (Lockwood & Co), and Willow Kean (The King Tide).

The series has received rave reviews from the likes of RogerEbert.com, which dubbed it 'one of the year’s best' series.

In a statement to the Netflix website Tudum, McKeown said of the series' origins: "I’ve been coming to Newfoundland for many years, and it’s become a part of my life.

"I just always felt like I wanted to set something here, that this would be a great place for something big and something kind of epic."

On his reasons for joining the project, Hartnett added: “I read the first two scripts in less than an hour.

“The voice was so clear, the concept was so engaging, and the character was fantastic. I’d never read anything like it before.

"I had never read anything that was set in Newfoundland before. I didn’t understand the long history of Newfoundland being its own country and having its own dialect and its own very specific ancestry.”

All six episodes of Below are now available to stream on Netflix.

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