Breaking Down the Ominous Ending of Below

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Below finale.Calvin Penney (Josh Hartnett) cuts his engine far from shore. Behind his boat, the High Hopes, trails a slab of iceberg the size of a church, netted like a catch. He looks at it for a while. “Nice and deep, about 2,000 meters to the bottom, and not a soul around to give you and your youngsters any grief,” he tells the creature clinging to the base of the ice, the one he glimpsed in the water the day his father died. “Most of my life, you had me scared half to death. But I dare say we’re more alike than I ever expected.” He moves to cut the line.His confession is where Netflix’s six-part limited series arrives after five episodes of a different kind of dread. Jesse McKeown’s Below opens on a family towing their house across a Newfoundland bay until something drags it under, and for most of its run it behaves like the creature feature that scene promises. Calvin, a widowed fisherman with three kids, teams up with marine biologist Fonda Howander (Mackenzie Davis) as an unidentified cephalopod tears through his hometown of Snook's Arm and exerts a strange psychoactive pull on his son Wade (Charlie Heaton). It draws Wade to Littl...