You can't open second season with qoute of 21st century singer. Search and you will find many similiar qoutes from better suitable people. With that move you ruined all.

Absolutely terrible. Historical inaccuracies abound. The plot is incredibly slow moving. Watching this show makes me wonder "How did the British ever get established in Canada." I watched the 1st five episodes hoping it would get better, it did not. The main British characters, Governor Threadwell, Lord Bolton, and Captain Chesterfield were so badly written they should have provided them with long black mustaches, that way they could have twirled the mustaches ala Snidely Whiplash. The supposedly likable characters were also poorly conceived and hopelessly unoriginal. The plucky Irish petty thief. The strong independent female Ale house proprietor thriving in a man's world. The strikingly attractive, but terribly fierce first nations character. The hulking and hairy Declan Harp half Cree and half Irish misunderstood strong antihero. He is viscous to the incompetent British but clearly really kind hearted and always willing to hear out the plucky Irish lad.

Have to say story was great until late season 2 where it was all of the sudden met with absolute "WTF" moments. Where strategical masterminds make decisions that leaves you thinking "is this person a moron". But then it leads back to fire the guy who does the writing because he's most deffinately destroying a series which could have been really good.

There are some good points to this show, so let's get them out of the way first. It's half-decent acting, scenic locations, an intriguing plot twist that sends the protagonist - by accident - into the New World and straight into a nasty conflict on the colonial frontier. It's also the fact there aren't that many shows about the Canadian fur trade and the rough-and tumble era of early colonization....and this show tries to elevate the profile of our country, so to speak.OK, onto the flaws and problems. The history, as is depicted on film here, was never this interesting or this violent, this 'sexy". It is hard to find actual accounts of armed confrontations between different fur traders or these episodes of almost guerrila warfare in the boreal bush. So, 'Frontier' is using some seriously creative licence here. Also, lot of the characters are cast as inept, drunk, corrupt or morally deficient...or combination of all. They steal and kill, almost at will. I understand that the show's creators were keen on portraying conflict; let's at least try to portray conflict realistically. One had to be competent to stay alive and prosper on the frontier. Things like trying to kidnap a chief's son (in order to force a tribe to negotiate) would have been exceedingly stupid. And the folks who ruled the colony still ruled it...by a rule of law. The setting looks like it's supposed to be somewhere in the northern Laurentians in Quebec but could also be northern Ontario...but is actually Newfoundland. We are not told at the onset as to what year it is. Big mistake in my opinion. Doing a period piece requires an attention to detail. For instance, an English officer in a redcoat, even in the wilds, would have worn longish hair in a pony-tail or perhaps a wig, and no beards would have been seen on any of these men, in the late 1700s and very early 1800s. The French Canadian and Metis trappers and fur dealers would have had a very specific look to them, as well. A woman running the bar at the company fort would not have worn trousers - maybe for riding a horse but never for work in a public place. Also, no matter how much a governor of a fort would have screwed up, he would not have been murdered/summarily executed by another big official. It's too outlandish. At worst, they would have been sent back to England and 'retired' with some kind of a pension and told to shut up. Anyways, a lot of creative license is at work here, with trying to make the Hudson's Bay Company and its times seem more interesting and more dramatic than it really was.