Frontier (2016 TV series)
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Titlecard Frontier
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| Genre | Historical drama |
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| Composer(s) | Andrew Lockington |
| Country of origin | Canada U.S. |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Producer(s) | John Vatcher |
| Editor(s) | James Patrick |
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Discovery Channel (Canada) Netflix (US) |
| Picture format | 4K |
| Original release | November 6, 2016 – present |
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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.
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.
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.
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."
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