New war drama show with Kin star and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes streaming now

The series features one of the stars of Kin in a lead role.

Streaming in Ireland via the RTÉ Player, the Australian show is an adaptation of the Booker Prize-winning novel by the same name by Richard Flanagan.

The book has been brought to the screen by the acclaimed director Justin Kurzel (The Order, True History of the Kelly Gang) and writer Shaun Grant (Mindhunter, True History of the Kelly Gang).

Told in five parts, the series charts the life of Dorrigo Evans, played by Elordi as a young man and Hinds when he is older, "through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young, Assassination Nation), his time held captive in a World War II prisoner of war camp, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero".

The Narrow Road to the Deep North's cast also includes Dan Wyllie (Animal Kingdom), Essie Davis (Alien: Earth), Ewen Leslie (The Cry), Olivia DeJonge (Elvis) and Simon Baker (The Mentalist).

Holding a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, you can read a sample of some of the rave reviews for the show below:

The Guardian: "You never doubt the show’s realism, or the compassion underpinning it. This is less about the theatre of war than the psychological stain it leaves."

The Hollywood Reporter: "There’s a lingering soulfulness here that feels new to Kurzel’s work, distilled in an intensely moving lead performance from Jacob Elordi."

The Nightly (AU): "A lush, character-driven Australian drama that is not only beautifully performed and stunningly shot but also intellectually and emotionally vigorous."

Slate: "It’s gorgeous, ugly, and stirring, with parts that seared themselves into my brain, and it got me to read a really good novel."

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Prime Video distributed The Narrow Road to the Deep North in Australia, the US and some other territories, while the BBC acquired the rights to show it in the UK and Ireland.

That said, if you were in Ireland and had missed the series' original broadcasting on the BBC, there was previously no way of catching up with the series.

Thankfully, all five episodes of The Narrow Road to the Deep North are now streaming on the RTÉ Player.