For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Frontier can't decide what it wants to be: an extremely violent action series or a politically correct rewrite of history that delivers a positive social message. Hmmm...Episodes begin with quotes from cool contemporary people like Nelson Mandela and the rapper Ice Cube on weighty themes such as social justice. But don't let that fool you. If you want to see men gutted, flayed alive, and decapitated, you've come to the right place. Also, if you want to see bosomy barmaids serving half-wild fur trappers, you won't be entirely disappointed. On the other hand, if you want to see women occupying positions of authority and contemporary racial politics disguised as character development circa 1700s, you're also going to be pleased. For the most part, it's nation v nation with no multiculturalism tolerated. The exception is a band of indie fur-trading mystery tramps who dress straight out of Central Square in Cambridge, Mass. Their leader, one Declan Harp, is what you'd expect to get if Fabio and Charles Manson had a baby. When he's acting all loyal and altruistic, we're told his Native genes are at work doing the right thing; conversely, when he's going all murderous rampage on us (Hello red coats!) it's his Euro-trash genes acting out. Shades of Fenimore Cooper!The show has been criticized for its historical inaccuracies, but my sense is that this misses the larger question of why this program was made in the first place. Actually, it's hard to figure out why such as strange series was made in the first place. Was it to avenge the European invasion of the Native lands? If so, mission accomplished, especially in the case of the English red coats who are on the receiving end of some spectacularly rough treatment here. The producers seem to have decided that if one English soldier is going to get bumped off then, dagnabbit, we might as well bump off six or seven!I began to watch Frontier largely in hopes that the setting would be grand in the mold of Bruce Beresford's magisterial Black Robe. But even this disappoints after the first episode. The one good part is the deliciously evil main bad guy, Lord Benton. He's so evil he's actually funny, which is fitting because this show wants to be dramatic and high-minded but is actually funny and ludicrous.

Taking it to the absolute pinnacle of over the top acting.......come forward and take a bow,and come on down Evan Jonigkeit for your portrayal of Captain Chesterfield...................rarely have i seen such over the top unrestrained ...lets go BIG, NO BIGGER Acting, get a frigging grip...............subtlety is not within your performance ratio my friend

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.

Excellent series so no idea why it did not get great reviews. All cast are great in their roles. Constantly exciting and can't wait for season two. Lots of different forces with their own agendas that keep the plots twisting and turning. Bad guys are soooooo evil. Very interesting historical view of the various powers fighting for control of the fur trade.