‘The Last Ship’ episode 2 preview: Patient Zero, and a look ahead

If anything else, TNT knows how to make awesome trailers for some of their shows. The look ahead at the rest of “The Last Ship” season 1, as seen in the video below, is outstanding on so many levels. You have the possible reveal of Patient Zero (otherwise known as the person responsible for the virus), many battles, character drama, questions of trust, and of course explosions. This is a Michael Bay show.

Still, we already feel like this show has more potential than many of the films Bay has done lately. For one, there are a variety of people involved here who are embracing the series format; sometimes his films feel way too packed with action, and the story barely even seeps in. With ten hours to work with here, there is a much greater opportunity to get to know the people in the midst of all the fighting.

What is also impressive from a production standpoint is simply however the show managed to create all of these magnificent scenes with whatever budget that they had in order to make this show work. It really could not have been that expensive given most TV shows aren’t compared to movies, but this really does look like a big-budget blockbuster. Master congratulations have to be sent out to all parties for this one.

Now, we have to hope that the rest of the season can manage to live up to the expectations, and the hopes and dreams that we have that this could be the post-Apocalyptic ship drama we demand. (Before now, we never even knew that we needed one.)

What do you think about this trailer, and are you excited to see where this story goes? Click here if you want to look ahead at this season in a different way, and of course share your thoughts below! You can also sail over here to get some further TV updates via our CarterMatt Newsletter.

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