Last Resort Season 1 Thread

ABC's Last Resort...1st episode leaked on-line...not bad a show

Episodes

No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code U.S. viewers
(million) 1 "Captain"[4] Martin Campbell Shawn Ryan & Karl Gajdusek September 27, 2012

Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher) and the crew of the Colorado, a ballistic missile submarine, suddenly find themselves declared enemies of the United States and on the run when they refuse to follow an order to fire nuclear weapons on Pakistan. They take refuge on an exotic island while they try to find a way to clear their names and get back home.

Just watched episode 1....WOW....man this is gonna be a great show!!!

The pilot episode of ABC's nuclear submarine drama "Last Resort" has been released online two weeks before its TV premiere.
The high-intensity geopolitical thriller from Shawn Ryan, the creator of "The Shield," has been lauded as one of must-see shows of the 2012 Fall TV season. It stars Andre Braugher as Capt. Marcus Chaplin, the commander of a US submarine who refuses to comply with a mysterious order to fire a nuclear missile into Pakistan. As it becomes clear his sub and its crew are being used by their own government to create a pretext for war, Chaplin goes rogue, and takes the armed vessel to a tropical island as he brazenly attempts to de-escalate the global conflict.

they better have figured out a way to get some good lookin women on that sub

Last Resort: How The Shield's Creator is Bringing a "Monstrous Scope Show" to ABC

The creators of the exciting new series talk about what to expect.



by Eric Goldman
July 28, 2012
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07...or-is-bringing-a-monstrous-scope-show-to-abc#


Shawn Ryan, the creator of The Shield, has brought us a lot of excellent television through the years. But speaking at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour yesterday, he said it was only now that he was ready for something on the scale of Last Resort, the exciting new series he's created alongside Dead Like Me's Karl Gajdusek - Which just so happens to be my personal favorite among all the new fall dramas.
Ryan remarked, “When we pitched this to [network president] Paul Lee and his cohorts at ABC last summer or fall, I described it as the show that I couldn't make five years ago because I didn't possess the skill set and that I felt like the shows I had done up to this point, the ongoing serialization of The Shield, combined with the production value of Chicago Code, combined with this buddy thing that we had done in Terriers, that all this stuff sort of got me to this place where I felt I could do something this ambitious.”
Last Resort tells the story of what happens when the commander of a nuclear submarine refuses orders to fire – in the midst of very suspicious and suspect circumstances – ultimately bringing the sub and its crew to a small island, where they maintain a very uneasy relationship with the locals, while trying to decide what their next move is – all while in a standoff with their own country.
Said Ryan, “It's not like I didn't want to do something of a huge scale like this before. But this is a really difficult show from a storytelling standpoint, from a production standpoint, to have the production in Hawaii and to manage that. It's a big budget, very huge, monstrous scope show that I don't think I would have been capable of doing before. So it's not like my ambitions have grown, but my feelings about my capability to live up to those ambitions has grown, I think.”
As for what to expect from Last Resort week to week, Ryan noted, “We go in a lot of different directions. You know, there's going to be a Tom Clancy aspect to this show, the way there was in the pilot, every episode. But TV is about relationships.”
Ryan elaborated, “TV is about character and so it will come characters first. We've described this, Karl and I, not as a show about war, but it's a show about people in a time of crisis. So in the same way that Casablanca and Gone with the Wind and Reds and Doctor Zhivago were personal character stories about people in the middle of crisis, that's what we're hoping to do in a weekly series.”

Last Resort (ABC) “Blue on Blue” Episode 2

Last Resort “Blue on Blue” Episode 2 airs THURSDAY, Oct 4 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Episode Synopsis: More than 20 warships are closing on the 200-mile perimeter that Marcus Chaplin declared as a no man’s land around the island. And as XO Sam Kendal is drawn into a battle on the ground to keep them alive, Prosser confronts Marcus about something personal to him that could be impacting his judgment as Captain of the Colorado, on “Last Resort,” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.
“Last Resort” stars Andre Braugher as Captain Marcus Chaplin, Scott Speedman as XO Sam Kendal, Daisy Betts as Lieutenant Grace Shepard, Dichen Lachman as Tani Tumrenjack, Daniel Lissing as SEAL Officer James King, Sahr Ngaujah as Mayor Julian Serrat, Camille de Pazzis as Sophie Girard, Autumn Reeser as Kylie Sinclair, Jessy Schram as Christine Kendal and Robert Patrick as Master Chief Joseph Prosser.
Guest Cast: Jay Hernandez as Paul Wells, Michael Ng as Cameron Pitts, John Prosky as Pilgrim, Omid Abtahi as Nigel, Assaf Cohen as Linus, Kasim Saul as Seaman Lawrence.
“Last Resort” stars Andre Braugher (“Men of a Certain Age”) as Captain Marcus Chaplin, Scott Speedman (“The Vow”) as XO Sam Kendal, Daisy Betts (“Sea Patrol”) as Lieutenant Grace Shepard, Dichen Lachman (“Being Human”) as Tani Tumrenjack, Daniel Lissing (“Crownies”) as SEAL Officer James King, Sahr Ngaujah (“House of Payne”) as Mayor Julian Serrat, Camille de Pazzis as Sophie Gerard, Autumn Reeser (“Hawaii Five-O,” “No Ordinary Family”) as Kylie Sinclair, Jessy Schram (“Falling Skies,” “Once Upon a Time”) as Christine Kendal.

fyi the 2nd episode is tonight

maxdemo said:

fyi the 2nd episode is tonight

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Dvr'ed eppy 1...doing 2 tonight...please no spoilers

thx

C.P. said:

Dvr'ed eppy 1...doing 2 tonight...please no spoilers

thx

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no spoilers ....just want the moderators to change the thread title to ....Last Resort Season 1 Thread