“The Last Frontier” – Apple TV’s action thriller set in the Alaskan wilderness – is now officially lost in the wilderness, as the streaming service has cancelled the series after just one season.
The ten-episode series, which suffered from mixed reviews (it has a score of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes), will go out of production after Apple decided against funding a second season, reports Variety.
The show starred Jason Clarke as Frank Remnick, a U.S. marshal patrolling the remote backcountry of Alaska. He is faced with recovering dozens of inmates who survived the crash of a prison transport plane.
Remnick, is described as “the lone U.S. marshal in charge of the quiet, rugged barrens of Alaska. Remnick’s jurisdiction is turned upside down when a prison transport plane crashes in the remote wilderness, setting free dozens of violent inmates. Tasked with protecting the town he’s vowed to keep safe, he begins to suspect the crash wasn’t an accident, but the first step of a well-crafted plan with far-reaching and devastating implications.”
Variety‘s review said that after “an entertaining bait-and-switch” in the first episode, the show “gets bogged down in a serialized plot that’s more convoluted and generic than the simple pleasures of maniacs running amok and small-town cops chasing them down.”
In addition to Clarke, the cast included Dominic Cooper, Haley Bennett, Simone Kessell, Dallas Goldtooth, Tait Blum, and Alfre Woodard.
While show creators Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio were discussing how a second season could happen – discussing ideas for a potential second season, including a change of location. “I think that we’ve discussed many avenues to take with the second season, but we’ve pretty much exhausted a lot of stories in Alaska,” D’Ovidio told Variety, with Bokenkamp adding, “We’ve certainly talked a lot about where they end up, maybe a beach somewhere. But it also occurs to me that the U.S. Marshals hunt bad guys around the world. Sidney [Bennett] and Havlock [Cooper] represent a problem to Frank, but that doesn’t mean they are his only problem.” – Apple TV cancelled the series, putting an end to those plans.
