The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a sweeping five-part miniseries directed by Justin Kurzel and adapted by Shaun Grant from Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel. A searing meditation on love, war, and memory, it moves between a doomed wartime romance and the horrors of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and ranks among the most acclaimed prestige dramas of its year.
The story follows Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans across three timelines: as a young medical officer (Jacob Elordi) consumed by a passionate affair with his uncle's wife Amy (Odessa Young) before shipping out; as a prisoner forced to keep men alive while building the notorious Thai-Burma "Death Railway"; and as a celebrated but haunted old man (Ciaran Hinds) decades later, unable to escape what he survived. Simon Baker, Olivia DeJonge, and Heather Mitchell appear in a layered ensemble spanning the decades.
Debuting at the Berlin International Film Festival before its streaming release, the series earned extraordinary notices, including a rare 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, for the raw intensity of its battlefield and camp sequences and the aching restraint of its love story. It stands as a landmark of recent Australian television. It is streaming on Prime Video.
"Lost" is one of the world most popular TV series. The show is the winner of Emmy and Golden Globe. At the heart of the story - the accident happened with the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 Oceanic Airlines, flying from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, USA, crashed and caught on the tropical island full of mysteries and secrets, somewhere in the Pacific. Each episode contains a storyline on the island, and the secondary, which tells about the key characters in a series of other time of life (in the first three seasons - the past, in the fourth - of the past and future). The fifth season of the series also contains two storylines, the first one is developing on the island immediately after the events of the fourth season, and the second - after three years in the U.S.. The series was created by JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber, and is filmed primarily in the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The pilot episode was shown on ABC on Sept. 22, 2004 and collected at screens for nearly 19 million people. Since then it has been shown for six seasons. Currently, the series executive producers are Abrams, Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender and others. Music composer is Michael Giacchino. Due to the large ensemble cast and the cost of filming in Hawaii "Lost" TV show is one of the most expensive in television history. Successful and among the critics and the public, "Lost" collected an average audience of 16 million people during the show the first season in the U.S.. He has won numerous awards including an Emmy for best drama series in 2005, the prize for best American TV series of the British Academy Television Awards in 2005, a Golden Globe for best drama in 2006 and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Arguably the best medical drama in television history, House thrives on genius writing and equally brilliant acting. Set in a teaching hospital at Princeton University, the show builds its plots around complicated, complex, elusive, credulity-straining diseases and a team of diagnosticians willing to move heaven and earth to find their causes and treatments. Long-time House fans eventually demystify the show’s dramatic formula, which devotes the first third to diagnosis and discovery, the middle third to trial and which seem to lead to a cure, and then the climactic ending which undoes all the drama of the first two thirds, curing the disease by revealing The Truth. Hugh Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House to perfection, sustaining the tension and contradiction between House’s arrogance and his irresistible compulsion to save people from their illnesses and often from themselves. One Los Angeles television writer sums-up, “A vicodin-popping, wise-cracking, gimp-guy who walks with his cane on the wrong side while he demystifies illnesses so bizarre they almost defy imagining—what’s not to like?”
