Josh Hartnett has captivated fans in projects like The Virgin Suicides, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Pearl Harbour, Black Hawk Down and Oppenheimer, and now he’s transformed into a Newfoundland fisherman for the upcoming Canadian Netflix series, Below. Coming to the streaming site Oct. 8, the six-episode thriller series was filmed in the Canadian province.

“I read the first two scripts in less than an hour,” Hartnett told Netflix’s Tudum. “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.”

Created by Jesse McKeown, who was a writer on The Umbrella Academy, Hartnett plays Calvin Penney, who’s described as “a big‑hearted but stubborn fisherman,” in a small Newfoundland town. While decades have passed, he’s still haunted by his father’s mysterious death.

When an unidentified sea creature appears in the town, terrorizing the small community, Calvin fights to protect his hometown, including keeping his son Wade, played by Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton, and the rest of his family safe.

Joining forces with a visiting marine researcher, Fonda Howander, played by Mackenzie Davis, buried secrets on the island are revealed.

“He is a guy who has had a series of setbacks and tragedies in his life starting at a young age,” Hartnett told Tudum. “He’s felt that he’s cursed and that his place in the world is untenable, that even his community doesn’t see the point of him, and he lives in a very small community, so he feels untethered.”

The series also stars Willow Kean, Ruby Stokes, Rohan Campbell and Kaleb Horn.

As McKeown told Tudum, as someone who has been visiting Newfoundland for years, he’s always wanted to create a series set in the province, specifically something that can really use its unique landscape, and also showcase the warmth of the local communities.

“It’s such a unique landscape and such a rugged, dangerous, isolated, scary place in a lot of ways,” the statement from McKeown reads. “But then there’s also this other side to it, which is that the community is so warm and the people are so funny and unique and there are so many eccentricities about the place.”

If, like me, you’re a sucker for a twisty, Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery, look no further: the gripping 2025 drama I, Jack Wright has just arrived on the BBC.

Created by Unforgotten mastermind Chris Lang, this darkly comic series centres on the chaotic aftermath of business tycoon Jack Wright’s apparent suicide. As his family descends into a desperate battle over his estate, police investigators soon uncover that his death was no accident.

With plenty of twists and turns, I, Jack Wright is perfect for any murder mystery fan. Before you press play, find out all you need to know about the series.

What is I, Jack Wright about?

After successful businessman Jack Wright dies from apparent suicide, it sends shockwaves through his family.

But when the provisions of his will are revealed, his third wife, Sally, and two sons, Gray and John, discover that they’ve largely missed out on Jack’s large fortune.

The synopsis continues: “As DCI Morgan (Lloyd) and DC Jones (Kingsman) delve further into the case, they realise Jack’s cause of death was in fact murder.

“Their sights turn to the Wright family, where the mother of all feuds is beginning. As each family member becomes more reckless and desperate in their bid to own a piece of Jack’s legacy, dark secrets and resentments are revealed with explosive consequences.”

What have viewers and critics said about the show?

The series has received high praise from viewers, currently boasting an impressive 81 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Taking to social media, one person wrote: “I watched I Jack Wright, back to back, and it is absolutely brilliant. John Simm is brilliant, as well as the cast. I would thoroughly recommend it,” while another hailed the show as “compelling and addictive”.

A third praised the twist ending, adding: “What an absolutely brilliant piece of writing from the incredible @ChrisLangWriter. So much depth and quality and I genuinely never saw that twist at the end coming.”

Critical reception has been mixed. The Telegraph awarded four stars, praising the drama as a “propulsive tale of greed, mistrust and dysfunctional family feud” full of “treachery and plot twists,” while The Times gave three stars, describing it as “pleasingly escapist.” Elsewhere, RadioTimes.com called the show “solid fun but overly busy” (three stars), and The Independent found it “frustratingly shallow” (two stars).

Who stars in I, Jack Wright?

Trevor Eve (Unforgotten) stars as Wright family patriarch Jack. He’s joined by Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther) as Sally and John Simm (Grace) and Daniel Rigby (Wolf Hall) as Jack’s sons Gray and John, respectively.

Meanwhile, Gemma Jones (Gentleman Jack) plays Rose Wright, alongside Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (The Serpent) as Emily Wright, Rakhee Thakrar (Sex Education) as Laura Johnstone, Harry Lloyd (The Lost King, Game of Thrones) as DCI Hector Morgan and Zoë Tapper (Grace) as Georgia Wright.

Rounding out the cast are Sabrina Bartlett (The Larkins) as Bella, James Fleet (Bridgerton) as Bobby and Percelle Ascott (Domino Day) as Reuben.

I, Jack Wright is available to stream on BBC iPlayer now.