| The footage of the octopus at work and play — hunting crabs, shape-shifting into seaweed, giving sharks the slip — is deeply absorbing: I would have happily watched hours of it without narration and indeed occasionally do, on YouTube, with a glass of wine | We see her outwitting a shark by hitching a ride on its back, growing a new tentacle after surviving a shark attack, and finally wasting away after laying a clutch of eggs |
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| In 2010, Foster felt the ocean beckoning and, convinced of the healing powers of the water, he made himself a promise: to swim the expanse of the sea every single day | It remains to be seen with Netflix |
Again, it is all strictly above board — just a bit of hand-holding.
| Sometimes we leave the house—heavens—without a phone | Viewers witness a man coping with exhaustion and burnout regain purpose by developing a relationship with an octopus in the Great African Sea Forest off the tip of South Africa |
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| In natural history filmmaking, Foster found his calling |
Foster began to employ the tracking modus-operandi of the San bushmen to track down marine life underwater.
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