Pretty Good

Fresh and Exciting

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Frontier can't decide what it wants to be: an extremely violent action series or a politically correct rewrite of history that delivers a positive social message. Hmmm...Episodes begin with quotes from cool contemporary people like Nelson Mandela and the rapper Ice Cube on weighty themes such as social justice. But don't let that fool you. If you want to see men gutted, flayed alive, and decapitated, you've come to the right place. Also, if you want to see bosomy barmaids serving half-wild fur trappers, you won't be entirely disappointed. On the other hand, if you want to see women occupying positions of authority and contemporary racial politics disguised as character development circa 1700s, you're also going to be pleased. For the most part, it's nation v nation with no multiculturalism tolerated. The exception is a band of indie fur-trading mystery tramps who dress straight out of Central Square in Cambridge, Mass. Their leader, one Declan Harp, is what you'd expect to get if Fabio and Charles Manson had a baby. When he's acting all loyal and altruistic, we're told his Native genes are at work doing the right thing; conversely, when he's going all murderous rampage on us (Hello red coats!) it's his Euro-trash genes acting out. Shades of Fenimore Cooper!The show has been criticized for its historical inaccuracies, but my sense is that this misses the larger question of why this program was made in the first place. Actually, it's hard to figure out why such as strange series was made in the first place. Was it to avenge the European invasion of the Native lands? If so, mission accomplished, especially in the case of the English red coats who are on the receiving end of some spectacularly rough treatment here. The producers seem to have decided that if one English soldier is going to get bumped off then, dagnabbit, we might as well bump off six or seven!I began to watch Frontier largely in hopes that the setting would be grand in the mold of Bruce Beresford's magisterial Black Robe. But even this disappoints after the first episode. The one good part is the deliciously evil main bad guy, Lord Benton. He's so evil he's actually funny, which is fitting because this show wants to be dramatic and high-minded but is actually funny and ludicrous.

I really wanted to like this as it's based on real world events and it's based in Canada and is also set in a very interesting time , so it has all the qualities of a excellent historical drama but sadly it chose to ignore them. If Dick Van Dykes cockney accent in Mary Poppins made you cringe then Captain Chesterfield Evan Jonigkeit will make you want to pull you ears off and he is only slightly worse than Zoe Boyle Scottish accent which makes Mel Gibson seem like a local from the highlands. It get worse as I felt it was bound to improve but it just get silly as all the English are evil pantomime characters who just run at the main Character Declan Harts musket like suicidal lemmings. If you have time to spare and you don't mind comedy accents , people in red coats who blindly ignore all military training and just wait to be shot and you want to watch a program that takes a really intresting historical narrative and makes it look like a Carry on Film without the humour, you will love this but sane people won't. I've seen worse ( I just watched the latest Dirk Gently) but thankfully not often.

Watched the entire first season, Total waste of time!

Have to say story was great until late season 2 where it was all of the sudden met with absolute "WTF" moments. Where strategical masterminds make decisions that leaves you thinking "is this person a moron". But then it leads back to fire the guy who does the writing because he's most deffinately destroying a series which could have been really good.