Here’s a quick recap of what went down in Frontier’s season 1 finale. A co-production between Netflix and Discovery Canada, Frontier is a historical drama set in late eighteenth century Canada at the height of the fur trade, as tensions mount between trappers and the monopolistic Hudson’s Bay Company. The series stars Jason Momoa as Declan Harp – a part-Cree, part-Irish fur trader whose ruthless reputation precedes him. Harp has major beef with the evil Lord Benton (Alun Armstrong, Van Helsing), his former employer and a high-ranking officer with the Hudson’s Bay Company who has traveled to the New World with equally contemptible minion Captain Chesterfield (Evan Jonigkeit, Sweetbitter) to make an example of the trapper gone rogue.
Over the course of Frontier’s first season, Harp teamed up with Irish stowaway Michael (Landon Liboiron, Hemlock Grove), his sister-in-law Sokanon (Jessica Matten, Burden Of Truth) and ale house owner Grace (Zoe Boyle, Downton Abbey) to wrest control from Hudson’s Bay Company. Frontier season 1 also revealed Harp had a perfectly understandable reason for wanting to take out Benton; he’d savagely murdered his wife and son years previously. In the penultimate episode, Lord Benton captured Harp and showed his truly sadistic nature when he tortured his former protégé and informed him his wife was pregnant when he killed her.
In Frontier’s season 1 finale, Harp had been freed from captivity with Sokanon’s help but was gravely wounded. Nevertheless, Harp found the strength to continue his plan to take down Lord Benton and met with wealthy American fur trader Samuel Grant (Shawn Doyle, Bellevue) to help. Meanwhile, Grace met with independent fur company owner Malcolm Brown (Michael Patric, The 100) and told him where he could find Chesterfield, who’d killed his brother Cedric (Stephen Lord, Penny Dreadful) earlier in the season. Unfortunately, their encounter left Malcolm badly injured rather than Chesterfield dead.
Later in the Frontier season 1 finale, Harp and Michael prepared to ambush the nefarious Lord Benton with the help of Samuel Grant. However, the shady Samuel had a plan of his own and double-crossed Harp by revealing his location. Samuel’s betrayal led to Harp being recaptured by Benton and getting sentenced to death by hanging.
Luckily for the Frontier protagonist Michael, Sokanon and Grace also had a plan. As Harp was on the gallows about to be hung, his allies created a distraction by blowing up an ammunition storehouse while priest Father James Coffin (Christian McKay, Me And Orson Welles) slipped Harp a knife to cut himself free. As Benton was about to take Harp out with a gun, Michael managed to shoot the villain down – not fatally, unfortunately, but he was wounded enough to give Harp a chance to escape. The Frontier season 1 finale ended with a wounded and exhausted Harp escaping through the wilderness. Would Harp survive his ordeal and make it to Frontier season 2?
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