‘The Last Ship’ episode 2 preview: Where Eric Dane, cast go next

Tonight, TNT launched a very ambitious new drama project in “The Last Ship,” and the critical consensus about the visuals is pretty clear: They are stunning. The larger questions that are out there revolve around whether or not the story and the character development will be able to live up to that.

With the pilot episode, there was understandably only so much time, so maybe this is something that you are going to find a little bit more about in “Welcome to Gitmo.” This is the episode airing next week, and it brings Eric Dane and company to a very different version of the world that you have heard so much about in the press. Take a look at what the official synopsis says per the network:

“Chandler and his crew head to the U.S. Military base at Guantanamo Bay in hopes of collecting food, medical supplies and fuel replenishments. Three teams are dispatched to carry out these varied tasks. While there, they come under attack by escaped Gitmo prisoners and enlist the help of a grizzled private contractor who’s been surviving for weeks and living off the land.”

The primary challenge for “The Last Ship” is going to be making you care more about some of these people, while also balancing out the action and the great stuff that Michael Bay and the other producers bring to the table here. We know that Bay is great at delivering on stuff like this, but compelling people has always been his flaw.

The next thing that we are very curious about will be later this week, when we see the show’s ratings for the first time.

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