Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestHerman Melville's towering epic of New England seafaring life pits grizzled, obsessive Captain Ahab (Golden Globe nominee Patrick Stewart, "X-Men") against the infamous great white whale, Moby Dick. Co-starring Henry Thomas ("E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial") as Ishmael and the legendary Gregory Peck, who played Ahab in the 1956 version directed by John Huston.
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Acting
Stewart's Ahab is unhinged Shakespearean thunder.
Production
Practical ship sets that actually look seaworthy.
Costume
Steampunk-adjacent whaler gear hits weirdly hard.
Creator
Franc Roddam
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