EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
Frontier - Season 1
In the late 1700s, the fur trade monopoly that England has enjoyed in Canada via the Hudson’s Bay Company is being threatened by American, Scottish and French interests. The series follows the struggle to 'control wealth and power in the North American fur trade' that time.
16 January 1976, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
27 October 1969
15 April 1997, Terrace, British Columbia, Canada
January 20, 2017
Yes, there are serious themes to be drawn from it if you're so inclined... but you can also feel free to take it as simply an action-packed, rather bloody tale from those frothy preindustrial days.
January 19, 2017
Jason Momoa does historical epic for Netflix' sounds a lot more exciting in theory than Frontier is in execution.
January 20, 2017
The series struggles to be compelling beyond the prospect of Momoa making an appearance on screen, and even then, the material rarely rises to meet the effort he puts forth.
March 27, 2017
It's like that bland guacamole your co-worker brings to the potluck, but if you sprinkle a little salt and squeeze a lime on it, it's quite enjoyable. Jason Momoa is the lime and the salt. The sea salt.
January 20, 2017
None of the characters, however, prove especially interesting, and in an age of abundance, Frontier feels like a decidedly second-tier offering.
January 23, 2017
Frontier privileges complication and nuance over titillation and pulp - and capitalizes on what television specifically can do in terms of telling a multi-pronged, multi-location story.
February 02, 2017
After a decent mixture of action, gore, and drama? Look no further.
January 18, 2017
Frontier is moderately entertaining, but consistently unchallenging.
January 24, 2017
Bloody, predictable historical drama about fur trade wars.

