By skyforbes 
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for The Last Frontier Season 1, Episode 1.
The Last Frontier is a chess match of chilling proportions between two of Hollywood’s most underrated actors. The Apple TV+ show is one-part action series, one-part brooding drama, but it rests squarely on the intense performances of Jason Clarke and Dominic Cooper — two powerful stars evenly matched. Viewers won’t be able to look away from them.
The series is co-created by Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio, the former of whom also created the NBC hit The Blacklist. There are some similarities between The Last Frontier and The Blacklist that become apparent: the premise involves tracking down a number of nasty villains. Cooper’s character Havlock is an enigmatic bad guy who might also be the key to a greater good. The CIA are involved, in the person of disgraced agent Sidney Scofield (played by Cyrano‘s Haley Bennett in her television debut). But Bokenkamp and D’Ovidio are hitting all those familiar notes for a specific reason: they’re creating an almost claustrophobic thriller.
Audiences may not be surprised by the big twist at the end of Episode 1, simply because TV viewers are now trained to expect a fourth-act shock or cliffhanger. What makes The Last Frontier work are the performances, as well…
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