Terminator Icon’s New Apple TV Series Poised to Topple Taylor Sheridan’s Empire
Jason Clarke leads Apple TV+'s The Last Frontier, a hard-charging thriller where a lone U.S. marshal hunts dozens of violent inmates set loose from a prison transport plane amid Taylor Sheridan–style frontier grit. Premieres October 10, 2025.
Apple TV+ is about to drop a new survival-thriller that basically screams: one man, a blizzard of bad guys, and a whole lot of jurisdictional drama. It is called The Last Frontier, it stars Jason Clarke, and yes, it is very much playing in the Taylor Sheridan sandbox without actually being a Sheridan show.
What it is
The setup is clean and mean: U.S. Marshal Frank Remnick is living quiet in Alaska when a prison transport plane goes down in the wilderness. Dozens of dangerous inmates make it out. Remnick starts digging into the crash, and suddenly he is juggling a flood of fugitives and a powerful government agency that seems more worried about optics than letting the marshal do his job.
Clarke is the anchor here. The 56-year-old Australian actor (you may remember him from Brotherhood as Tommy Caffee, or as John Connor in Terminator Genisys) leads a 10-episode season built around that lonely-lawman-against-the-world vibe.
Quick breakdown
- Title: The Last Frontier
- Genre: Drama/Thriller
- Creators: Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D'Ovidio
- Cast: Jason Clarke as Frank Remnick; Dominic Cooper as Havlock; Haley Bennett as Sidney; Simone Kessell as Sarah Remnick; Tait Blum as Luke Remnick; Dallas Goldtooth as Hutch; Alfre Woodard as Bradford; Rusty Schwimmer as Kitty Van Horn
- Executive producers: Jon Bokenkamp, Richard D'Ovidio, Laura Benson, Jason Clarke, Sam Hargrave, Glenn Kessler, Albert Kim
- Production: Pickpocket Entertainment and Apple Studios
- Where to watch: Apple TV+
- Premiere: October 10, 2025, with the first two episodes
- Release cadence: New episodes every Friday through December 5, 2025
- Total episodes: 10
Why it feels familiar (in a good way)
If you are getting Yellowstone/Mayer-of-Kingstown/Tulsa King energy, you are not wrong. The Last Frontier leans into frontier crime: rugged land, fragile order, and morality under a snowplow. That is the Sheridan playbook, even if he is not involved here. And since internet takes tend to mash all the wilderness shows together: no, Yellowjackets is not a Taylor Sheridan series. Different show, different network. But Apple clearly likes the 'loner vs. lawlessness vs. institutions' template and is betting big on it.
The Jason Clarke/Taylor Sheridan connection
Clarke has actually been orbiting Sheridan projects for a while. He was supposed to be in the original Wind River, ended up in the sequel (which Sheridan did not produce or direct), and now he has a role in F.A.S.T., a film written by Sheridan. Clarke told MovieWeb:
"I have known Taylor for a long, long time. I was supposed to be in the original 'Wind River,' and it did not work out because of dates and times, so I did the second 'Wind River', which he actually did not produce or direct, and then he gave me a call and said, 'Look, I have got this movie with a part that I would like you to do.' I shot my stuff [in] five days, back-to-back. It is pretty cool."
Bottom line
This is Apple TV+ doing the modern Western-thriller thing with a straight face: one seasoned lead, a gnarly incident in the wild, and an agency breathing down his neck while killers roam the woods. If that is your lane, you are eating well starting Friday, October 10. You in?