The last shot means warming seas will keep threatening Snook's Arm after Mudder's death. Calvin and Wade face a fleet of new icebergs, framed as a climate question about what comes next. Hilvaro describes Below as a six-episode Netflix thriller set in Snook's Arm, Newfoundland.
It follows fisherman Calvin Penney, his son Wade and marine biologist Dr. Fonda Howander. They confront Mudder, a giant female deep-water squid defending her nest.
Table of Contents
- Who Is Mudder and Why Is She Here?
- How Does the Harbor Standoff End?
- Why Does Mudder Die After Birth?
- What Do the Final Icebergs Mean?
Who Is Mudder and Why Is She Here?
Mudder is a giant female deep-water squid unlike any recorded species. FandomWire explains she drifted south after warming made her Deep Arctic home unlivable FandomWire's creature breakdown.
FandomWire adds she hid her egg sac in the harbor iceberg and used it as a nest. That makes the harbor attacks a defense of young, not random feeding. It also ties the creature threat directly to warming water.
How Does the Harbor Standoff End?
Calvin, Wade and Mary choose to move the nest instead of killing Mudder. Decider reports they first shoot the iceberg smaller to make it movable.
Decider reports they then net the piece and tow it seaward. Mudder follows the nest instead of attacking the town. Decider reports the military lieutenant then defies Jim Crocker's order and calls off the harbor airstrike.
- Shoot the iceberg smaller to make it movable.
- Net the fragment and tow it seaward from the harbor.
- Let Mudder follow her nest into open water.
Why Does Mudder Die After Birth?
PEOPLE reports Mudder dies from natural birthing exhaustion after ejecting her eggs PEOPLE's ending breakdown. The same report says Calvin recognizes her eye from his childhood sighting.
Fiction Horizon reports Fonda later says no hatchlings survived. That account blames shallow harbor water that stayed too warm for the young.
What Do the Final Icebergs Mean?
Decider reports Calvin and Wade stand aboard High Hopes and meet a fleet of new icebergs on the horizon Decider's finale breakdown. Ominous music swells as the image cuts to black. Creator Jesse McKeown told TV Insider the iceberg image was planned from the beginning TV Insider's interview with creator Jesse McKeown. He frames it as an open climate-change question about what happens next, not a conventional cliffhanger.
It presents the six episodes as a complete story. Hilvaro notes the series leaves the new icebergs open to interpretation as more Mudders or only warming seas. PEOPLE and Radio Times note Snook's Arm survives, the Crockers fall back for now and no Season 2 is ordered. All six episodes are streaming on Netflix as the complete story to watch.