AMC+ (BBC Two in the UK), the five-episode miniseries is set in the 1850s and follows Patrick Sumner (Jack O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who joins a whaling expedition to the Arctic. His fellow crew members include Henry Drax (Farrell), a violent and brutish harpooner, and tensions soon rise between the two men. “Henry Drax is an animal of pure instinct and desire,” said Farrell. “I do think at the heart of all of us — men particularly, perhaps — there is a kind of a brutality that has been tapered down and socialized, but it’s still there in our darker moments.