The Last Ship season 4 trailer analysis: Chandler’s reappearing act
Let’s start things off with where we left off with the TNT show — season 3 closed with Tom Chandler departing the crew of the Nathan James, feeling as though he was being led to a different/far more peaceful life than trying to lead a team on the high seas. In so many ways, we understand his sentiment. This is a man who is very much intent on trying to find some sort of inner peace, and he describes it very well in the trailer — he was starting to struggle with the concept of justice versus vengeance while serving as the leader, and we understand why. He’s lost so much and has suffered in ways that are hard to imagine. He doesn’t want to just act for the sake of acting; he wants there to be a specific sort of purpose behind it that actually benefits much of the world.
Since Chandler couldn’t find that sort of purpose and inner peace, he left the world as he knew it. When season 4 picks up, Eric Dane’s character is now in Greece with a new life … but also one that is short-lived when eventually he will find a calling to reignite that metaphorical engine. He’ll be needed, and the world will be suffering as a mutation of the virus is starting to wipe out the global food supply. There are only a select group of plants that are immune to it, and that is the jumping-off point for the remainder of the story to come.
This preview features Chandler in everything from his own version of the Coliseum to being told further about his final destiny in a way that feels like a Superman movie. It appears that his new mission is to spread the seeds around the world that will help to stop the famine and give everyone a second chance to rebuild. In the midst of the mission, you get a glimpse everything that you could possibly want as a longtime viewer of the show: Action, violence, romance, and smart storytelling with plenty of twists. We would imagine that one of the bigger challenges with this show is coming up with a central mythology every year, one that proves to be worth the scale of a ship like the Nathan James. It’s hard to tell stories that are this big, and where people on so many different continents are all impacted in equal measure.
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Meanwhile, you can head over to this link in the event you want some further news on the series, and that includes some of the first official news on the premiere. (Photo: TNT.)