Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

meneermalik-1 I live in Canada and ventured to James Bay and I love history....so it's somewhat interesting to me only because through watching the show I ended up researching a bunch of things about that time period. That being said. haha. I wanted to like this show (and I do) but it's really just something to watch while I'm doing other things. 6 episodes a season with 2 out so far isn't a big commitment too. Blasted through the series in a few days. The biggest problem for me which instantly takes me out of the moment or the story is the teleportation that seems to take place when they travel from the north (which I think they actually don't mention but it would have to be on James Bay or Hudson Bay) and Montreal. It is so ridiculous. "Ok I just got here but I'll going back to Montreal tonight". Cut scene - the next day (seemingly) ok I'm in Montreal but I forgot something up is Fort James so I'll be heading back out shortly". This is a voyage that would have taken weeks if not months to undertake and one character feels that travelling from the north to Montreal to sell a few pelts is totally fine? What?! There would have been trading posts that he could have sold those too without making a trip to Montreal. Another problem - They travel between the North and Montreal like it's two blocks down the road (as mentioned). No one ever carries any provisions, packs, etc to make this long trip. They're basically dressed up like they're taking the dog for a walk down the street in a manner of speaking.Also....canoes for fur traders were massive. You see them supposedly transporting fur in these 16 foot long canoes when they're suppose to be transporting mega quantities of fur. They would need thousands of canoes (really)...just doesn't make sense. GOOD STUFF. There's potential here for something decent. it's not too late. Costumes are great. The lighting is fabulous actually. The story is super interesting though I think the writing is missing out on a lot of interesting story/plot lines. Acting for the most part is good. BOTTOM LINE - If you're looking for a light, fluffy series to kill some time and that's decent this will do the job. If you're looking for a jaw dropping, leave you at the edge of your seat type thing....you won't like this.

sacarian-78554 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.

James Farley I think we lasted through about fifteen minutes of the first episode. The writing is so poor that it doesn't rise to the level of laughable. The characters' speech is literally unbelievable for the time period as are their actions. Perhaps I would have lasted longer if I knew absolutely nothing of history, but I doubt it. Even without the jarring anti-historicity of the characters and their actions, if I imagined the show to be something like a fantasy story based in another universe that resembled Britain and Canada of the Napoleonic era, the story beginning was trite and boring, the characters unengaging, most of the acting ham-handed and silly. So, all in all it was a wasted fifteen minutes.

dwoolston-09300 I regard Frontier as a lower-tier example of the narrative-heavy shows most famously represented by Game of Thrones, Black Sales, and Vikings. The show has its flaws--the writing and accents often misrepresent the show makers' desired setting, and it is an objectively poor representation of Canadian history via the Hudson Bay Company fur trade. And while I do believe that better historical consultation would realize Frontier's potential and produce a show as solid as the three listed earlier, these flaws did not prevent me from becoming invested and happily entertained by Frontier's patiently-paced chess-like narrative via the interlacing dynamics between its ensemble of characters, all of whom are wholesome and human. The story begins slowly but grows steadily more intense with each episode, and greatly benefits from all-or-nothing performances by Jason Momoa and Alun Armstrong and beautiful period costuming and production design (to my lay eyes, anyway). Either I'm just an easily-entertained fool, or my patience was rewarded as its plot points violently converged on each other in the later half of season 1. I was thrilled when Netflix released Season 2.