Amazon Prime Video’s Best New Show Has A Perfect 100% Critic Score
April 17, 2025
This article was published on 4/16 and republished on 4/17.
We are now two for two in terms of shows with the word “North” in them that have perfect critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes for their respective streaming services.
The first I’ve already covered, North of North, the indigenous comedy that’s on Netflix. Now, we have The Narrow Road to the Deep North on Amazon Prime Video, very much not a comedy, but one that has currently grabbed a perfect 100% review score as well, and premieres on Friday, April 18. Here’s the synopsis:
The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle’s wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.
The main hook here is that it stars Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi, who has been making the rounds in a lot of different projects with the show on formerly indefinite hiatus (season 3 is finally spooling up now). Before this that has included Saltburn and Priscilla, soon that will include Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein. First, a show, this Narrow Road to the Deep North, a five episode miniseries on Amazon Prime Video.
It may not shock you to learn that this story is based on a novel, written in 2013 by Richard Flanigan. It is not based on a true story. Elordi plays a young version of the central character, Dorrigo, while Ciaran Hinds of Game of Thrones plays the older version, reflecting on his past. The director is Justin Kurzel, behind a wide range of films ranging from last year’s The Order with Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, to the Assassin’s Creed movie back in 2016 which was…something. But this series seems to be quite good.
The entire thing is dropping as a binge-watch miniseries on Friday, April 18, so there’s going to be no need to view it week-to-week like some of Amazon’s larger series, which usually have two episode premieres and switch to one a week. For a five episode series, yes, that would seem to make a lot of sense.
It definitely seems like one to check out, and Jacob Elordi has seemingly made a number of great career decisions in recent years. And now a Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein movie? Come on, how much better can you get? But first, we can watch him in this seemingly-gripping drama.
Update (4/17): Another review in and The Narrow Road to the Deep North has kept its perfect score. It releases tomorrow so that’s when the audience scores will come in. I’d be surprised if they were quite that high, as that doesn’t happen often, but who knows, it’s possible.
If you’re still not convinced, we can look at some of these top scores for the film from critics:
- Collider: “The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a tough watch, but one that doesn’t hold back from displaying the cruelty of war and the dangers of blind ambition.”
- 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 common thread here is a lot of praise for Jacob Elordi specifically, who seems like he’s on his way to fully being on the A-list in short order here, even if he’s not quite as high profile as say, Glenn Powell at the moment. Elordi is focusing on more prestige roles, and it’s working out great for him. Really looking forward to seeing his upcoming projects over the next few years, including a return to Euphoria.
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