‘Below’ Is Netflix‘s Shallow Attempt to Recreate ‘Jaws’

There’s something under the water in Below , but unfortunately, there’s nothing beneath this Netflix miniseries’ monster-movie surface. A six-episode saga about a Newfoundland town beset by a man-eating aquatic menace, Netflix’s quirky genre thriller (streaming Oct. 9) is a cornucopia of ridiculousness, be it a fiend whose behavior makes less sense with each subsequent action, a story that appears to have been hastily sketched on a cocktail napkin, or actors speaking in an overcooked…