As you know from my previous post, I just reunited with my ol' buddy Apple TV and having just finished one binge (Pluribus) I decided to jump right into another. "Hmm," I thought, "The Last Frontier, what's that about...?" and I clicked on it to bring up its synopsis but I guess I accidentally double-clicked 'cause it then just, well, started. I quickly read a little bit of the written bio before it went to video and I thought it went like "a plane of convicts... small Alaskan town... local law has to protect its people..." and immediately thought "Huh, so, Con Air but in Alaska. Nah." But too late, it started. So on a lark, I just let it continue and said "What the hell."
Now I've finished the whole thing but it did take me a couple/three days. I didn't check message boards, reddit or YouTube because this plot's got more twists than the memory of good old Dueling Dragons, but I kept going to the end because it did have, well, these unbelievably "out there" twists, these multiple story arcs, pretty good acting and some incredible special effects scenes especially the opening plane crash which I thought was right up there with, well, good old LOST. Oh here we are with LOST again.
I somehow did stumble along the info early on though that this show was penned by the same creator behind The Blacklist and it wasn't long before I saw his fingerprints all over this thing. Same shit as in that show. But for all the crap that got, I actually like The Blacklist, until, well, I didn't. A show like that just gets too ridiculous after a while to bear, even for me.
All in all, despite some of the absolutely absurd circumstances and innumerable plot holes, I got into this show and when it ended, it left enough of a cliffhanger making me expectant for another season of its roller coaster ride in the frozen desolation of our 49th state.
But now I checked and I guess I'm once again in the minority as to my tastes in TV shows since in fact Apple TV has cancelled the show and there will be no second season.
Not only are my pleasantries misguided according to many reviewers I've read, this show is absolute unwatchable drivel, worthy of a LP-G review, had he done such things for streaming TV shows, had they existed in the '70s. Since he never did a bit called "Bad TV," I'll let Redditors do it for him:




