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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J5wTsYAh94

In 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson’s Bay Company. …Jason Momoa stars as Declan Harp, a part-Irish, part-native American outlaw campaigning to breach the fur trade.

 

[More_Badass]

Anyone watching this?

http://variety.com/2017/tv/reviews/review-frontier-jason-momoa-netflix-1201962615/

It's sprawling, diverse, and detailed, with an eye towards complicating simple assumptions about its subjects. Because we're in the midst of a glut of shows touting prestige markers, ”Frontier" at first seems to be just another show parading its blood, guts, and whorehouses as indicators of just how cool it is. (In my metaphor, that's the trying-too-hard guitar riff.) It reveals itself to be an ambitious, considered history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...-the-fur-trade-in-netflixs-frontier.html?_r=0

The series, a joint effort by Netflix and Discovery Canada, is refreshingly free of pretension, unlike some in the genre. Yes, there are serious themes to be drawn from it if you're so inclined — it's about greed, and empire-building, and exploitation of a land and its native inhabitants — but you can also feel free to take it as simply an action-packed, rather bloody tale from those frothy preindustrial days.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/frontier-review-965600

Netflix and Discovery Canada's period adventure series about ruthless pelt traders starring Jason Momoa is bloody, unpretentious fun...a propulsive, gleefully gory six-episode adventure series

 

[Aselith]

I will now!

 

[OldRoutes]

Thanks for the reminder! I'll give the show a try this weekend!

 

[LowRoller]

Thanks for the thread. Will watch it tonight

 

[D i Z]

I was unaware. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

This is so my kinda show, its frighting.

 

[#sorrynotsorry]

Sounds awesome. I'll check it out.

 

[Yado]

Thought it was very "meh".

 

[Stinkles]

The editing on this trailer is pretty bad. This is right up my alley topic wise, yet looks amateurish thanks to the trailer and music.


Is that trailer representative?

DECLAN HARP


DECLAN HARP


DECLAN HARP

 

[strafer]

Will watch for Jason Momoa.

 

[K.Jack]

Yep that's a Jason Momoa role.

 

[flaxknuckles]

I'm 15 minutes into the first episode and man this show has such cliche dialogue it hurts. And the actors are so bad they make Jason Momoa look good. But I wanna see some badass Khal Drogo ass-whoopin' so I'll stick it out a few more episodes.

 

[B-Dex]

This was on Canadian Discovery channel. Is the US just getting this?

 

[theifofdreams]

The first episode was bad enough to make me not even care to watch the rest. And that's saying something...

 

[Kvik]

Declan Harp in a bloody butcher's getup is practically Khal Drogo cosplaying as a Frontiersman.

 

[AoM]

Among other issues I've heard, apparently the lighting is pretty bad at times (so dark you can't tell what's happening).

 

[Joeku]

Was about to watch it, go figure it isn't on Canadian Netflix. *shrug*

 

[Burt]

Was actually browsing Netflix the other night and saw Momoa all over this and was surprised that I hadn't heard it before. Pushed it way back in my backlog, but only six episodes? Might dive in and get it done quick.

 

[belvedere]

Well, how is it?