Netflix’s Below drops today — and it opens with a house floating across a bay, towed by a motorboat like something out of a folk myth. Not a metaphor. A real thing. In Newfoundland, houses have been moved this way for decades, sometimes under government schemes, sometimes just because the land’s no longer livable. The scene is so grounded in fact that when the sea monster finally rises, you don’t laugh. You flinch. Because if it can happen to a house, why not a town? Why not a family? Why not Snook’s Arm? That’s the hook: a creature feature built on truth. And for six episodes, Netflix leans into it, not with grand spectacle, but with quiet dread, the kind that comes from knowing your home could be next. Josh Hartnett plays Calvin Penney, a fisherman clinging to a dying community where fishing is banned, replaced by ice-hauling for vodka. His son Wade (Charlie Heaton) chews mushrooms and rides ATVs through snowdrifts. His daughter Mary (Ruby Stokes) returns for the annual reunion weekend. The same one where bodies start washing up. The show’s rhythm is uneven. Some episodes feel like Come From Away meets Jaws. Others drift into surreal territory, a man wakes up to find an iceberg where there was none. A Portuguese boat vanishes without a trace. The local marine zoologist, Fonda Howander (Mackenzie Davis), arrives with data, not answers. And then there’s Natasha Henstridge as Janet, who shows up with no clear role until she does. The accents are… something. Hartnett sounds like a leprechaun in a storm. Heaton channels a mix of Irish, Scandinavian, and Canadian that might be accurate in rural Newfoundland, or might just be performance art. But the commitment is real. So is the look of the place. Fog-drenched piers, rusting boats, a town already half-sunken in time. It’s not perfect. The science is thin. The monster remains ambiguous, whale? Squid? Alien?. And the plot stumbles when it tries to stretch beyond its premise. But the world feels lived-in. The fear isn’t just of what’s in the water. It’s of what happens when a place stops being worth saving. The vote to relocate Snook’s Arm is coming. This time, only 75% support is needed. Calvin’s family holds the balance. So do you. Do you stay? Or do you go? The series ends on a cliffhanger, not about the monster, but about the choice. And that’s the real horror.