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"The Last Frontier" (S01, 10 eps, 50+ mins, Apple+) This was a great 10-ep spy thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of Alaska. Character development was excellent for a relatively short set of episodes. This is yet another CIA-focused spy thriller that involves elements of the US Marshals' service. Unfortunately, it's also yet another case of an excellent series being drop kicked to the curb as if it was a woke Disney+ property. I don't get it. WTF is wrong with Apple+ in killing a good series that had plenty of storytelling capacity for at least three seasons?! At least, it didn't end on a cliffhanger. Last Frontier - another one and done

So much potential. I gave it 5 episodes before I decided to dip. I think I'm a fairly patient and forgiving viewer. Once I start a show, I try to see it through. I'll give a long leash to middling material hoping for that big reveal or turning point that makes it all worthwhile. I typically afford a show a few of what I call "eye roll moments" where unrealistic things happen or ridiculous writing/dialog takes place in order to create drama or to serve the story albeit in some shallow way. Beyond that, I just start feeling manipulated and frustrated at the assaults on my intelligence. I just couldn't do it anymore.

This series started with such promise...Solid acting from Clarke and the rest of the cast, beautiful visuals and engaging start. Then it quickly lost steam. As so many other shows these days, they stretched 90 minutes of story to a full season. Milking the storyline seems to be the thing in the streaming era. Bloated story, pointless plot threads, awful CGI and 5 or 6 hours too long. Wasted talent and opportunity.

Better than most series I've seen this year. Plenty of plot twists to keep things interesting. Unlike some reviewers, I didn't find it either dull or slow-paced. If a second series is made, I'd certainly watch it.

Confusing, unbalanced, 3-4 extra episodes worth of nothing fillers... Bad writing. You can't have a spy action thriller, crossed with family drama crossed with frontier-western with filler bridges with usual suspects mystery... Waste of your time

The opening scene starts with a riveting crash of a prison transport plane in the barrens of Alaska. This unleashes all of the violent inmates into the snowy wild and the stories diverge into their various escapes, esp. the mysterious former CIA agent (Dominic Cooper). Jason Clarke is cast as the U.S. Marshall charged with tracking them down. The action sequences are well-done and mildly violent and that’s the best aspect of the series. The personal interactions tend to drag the pace, but they’re sufficiently involving to fill the time until the next bad event. Clarke’s character is more interesting in Hulu’s “Murdaugh: Death in the Family” (my review), but he still manages to juggle the challenges effectively. The plot wanders with the inevitable betrayals and revelations, but it’s still worth a watch, esp. for the riveting moments of action. (Review based on 7 out of 10 one-hour eps)

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

3 episodes in and this series is a great non stop cliff hanger from the first episode of the prison inmate who you think is the villain to the the episode 3 cliff hanger this show is a must watch without giving away any in direct spoilers if your an action / thriller style viewer this show is a must watch and after only 3 episodes I’m hooked and ready for more .

Lots of talent and potential wasted by poor writing. Had some doubts in the first episode, but the second went downhill fast enough that we stopped watching. Characters, situations, dialog, all lacking enough sense to be worthwhile. A shame.

The first episode actually wasn’t that bad. Lots of filler just to stretch it to an hour, but at least the directing was really good, and that makes you forgive the fact that the show treats the audience like idiots and tries to create tension with cheap twists. But from episode 2 on, it all goes downhill in every way. More side plots, flashbacks, really dumb dialogue, even dumber situations, and one cliché after another, including “the safety is on.” And in some scenes you seriously wonder if the writer grew up in a basement and never left it, because many situations make no sense if you’ve ever met real people. For example, two cops find a van with two tied-up colleagues. Cop 1 gets upset and just walks away. Cop 2 just stands there, staring into nothing… who helps the two tied-up guys? No one. Time for a pointless flashback to completely pull you out of the story again. Too bad. Episode 1 wasn’t perfect, but it had potential. From episode 2 onward, it’s just cheap trash.