According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apple TV+ has canceled action drama The Last Frontier after one season. The series follows Frank Remnick, played by Jason Clarke (Pet Sematary, Zero Dark Thirty), a lone U.S. marshal in charge of the barrens of Alaska who comes across conflict when a prison transport plane crashes, and a plethora of inmates are set free.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the logline of the series reads as follows: “Tasked with protecting the town he’s vowed to keep safe, Remnick begins to suspect the crash wasn’t an accident, but the first step of a well-crafted plan with far-reaching and devastating implications.”
“The only problem is that after a pilot that hints at dozens of ways that The Last Frontier could be an adrenalized thrill ride — a vaccination against the avalanche of self-important serial killer dramas forcing your friendly neighborhood television critic to consider Prozac — The Last Frontier turns out not to be very much fun at all,” Fienberg added via The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s the very opposite of fast-moving, a lumbering and padded journey that stretches two hours of story across 10 hours bogged down in over-telegraphed twists, hollow military jargon and insufferable domestic melodrama, squandering most of the entertainment value of its premise and leaving most of its overqualified cast in the lurch.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series also stars Dominic Cooper (Preacher, Need for Speed), Haley Bennett (The Girl on the Train, Music and Lyrics), Simone Kessell (Outlaws, Hard Home), Dallas Goldtooth (Seeds, Rez Ball), Tait Blum (Home Team, For All Mankind) and Alfre Woodard (Holiday Heart, The Family That Preys). Jon Bokenkamp (Taking Lives, Perfect Stranger) and Richard D’Ovidio are the creators of The Last Frontier and also serve as executive producers alongside director Sam Hargrave (Atomic Blonde, Combat Control).
The first and only season of The Last Frontier is available to stream on Apple TV+.