5.4 /10 1 Votes
52% Metacritic Genre Historical drama Country of origin Canada
U.S. First episode date 6 November 2016 | 7.2/10 IMDb 38% Rotten Tomatoes Composer(s) Andrew Lockington Original language(s) English Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Brad Peyton
Rob Blackie
Peter Blackie Starring Jason Momoa
Alun Armstrong
Landon Liboiron
Zoe Boyle
Jessica Matten
Christian McKay
Evan Jonigkeit
Shawn Doyle Networks Netflix, Discovery Channel Cast Jason Momoa, Jessica Matten, Landon Liboiron, Allan Hawco, Alun Armstrong Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frontier official trailer hd netflix
Frontier is a Canadian-American historical drama television series co-created by Brad Peyton, Rob Blackie, and Peter Blackie, chronicling the North American fur trade of the 1700s. The series is co-produced by Discovery Channel (Canada) (as the channel's first original scripted commission) and Netflix. On October 25, 2016, Frontier was renewed for a second season. The series premiered on November 6, 2016 on Discovery Channel Canada and was shot in 4K.
The first season has received mixed to negative reviews by critics, who praised Jason Momoa's powerhouse performance, but criticized the sluggish storytelling.
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- Frontier official trailer hd netflix
- Frontier trailer
- Synopsis
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- Production
- Broadcast
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Synopsis
The series follows Declan Harp (Jason Momoa), a part-Irish, part-Cree outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada.
Main
Production
Filming for Frontier took place in several locations in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, Canada, along with Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
Broadcast
The series is produced in 4K ultra high definition; on January 8, 2016, Bell Media confirmed that Frontier would stream in 4K via the Discovery Go app exclusively on Samsung 4K smart TVs. Internationally, the series will be distributed by Netflix, with the first season to become available on January 20, 2017. As per an exclusivity agreement, the series will not be available on Netflix in Canada until 2018.
Reception
The series received mixed to negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 38% based on 13 reviews, with the site's consensus reading. "Jason Momoa's powerhouse performance as Declan Harp is ultimately weighed down by Frontier's often sluggish storytelling." It was better received by viewers as reflected by the Audience Score of 76%. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average to critic reviews, gave the series an average score of 52 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Conversely, in his positive review, John Doyle of The Globe and Mail described the series as "an action-packed, uncomplicated and very entertaining yarn about the cutthroats who created this country by plundering it, when they weren't busy killing each other." Doyle felt the opening episode's handling of interactions with First Nations was handled "delicately", commending that Frontier was "far from being a whitewashed tale about the English, Scots, Irish and French battling out for possession of fur and land."