Below First Look Featuring Josh Hartnett

Netflix has shared a first look at the upcoming thriller series Below, which will be available to stream on October 8, 2026.

In Below, Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett) is a big‑hearted but stubborn fisherman living in a small Newfoundland town who’s still haunted by his father’s mysterious death from decades ago. When an unidentified sea creature begins terrorizing his hometown, Calvin must fight to hold his close-knit community together.

Determined to keep his son Wade (Charlie Heaton) and the rest of his family safe, he teams up with a visiting marine researcher (Mackenzie Davis) to confront the creature and reveal the island’s buried secrets before it’s too late.

Blending local myth, thrilling suspense, and heartfelt humor, this twisty six-part limited series dives into themes of family, community, and change – both terrifying and inevitable.

The cast includes Josh Hartnett (Calvin Penney), Mackenzie Davis (Fonda Howander), Charlie Heaton (Wade Penney), Ruby Stokes (Mary Penney), Kaleb Horn (Noah), Rohan Campbell (Jay Penney), and Willow Kean (Ruth Penney).

Jesse McKeown is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Below. The executive producers also include Jessica Rhoades, Chris Hatcher, Josh Hartnett, Jamie Childs, Louise Sutton, and Sharon Hall.

“I’ve been coming to Newfoundland for many years, and it’s become a part of my life,” McKeown told the Netflix blog Tudum on where the idea for a series set in a small fishing town came from. “I just always felt like I wanted to set something here, that this would be a great place for something big and something kind of epic.

“It’s such a unique landscape and such a rugged, dangerous, isolated, scary place in a lot of ways. But then there’s also this other side to it, which is that the community is so warm and the people are so funny and unique and there are so many eccentricities about the place.”

Hartnett was also captivated by the place and story. “I read the first two scripts in less than an hour. The voice was so clear, the concept was so engaging, and the character was fantastic. I’d never read anything like it before.

“I had never read anything that was set in Newfoundland before. I didn’t understand the long history of Newfoundland being its own country and having its own dialect and its own very specific ancestry.”