Even as Matthew Fox does his best to instill the story with some sort of emotion, LastLight gets lost in all the wrong ways. Our review:
Though it may feel like a lot longer, it was a year ago this month when we first got news that actor Matthew Fox would be returning to television with the Peacock limited series Last Light. Following the conclusion of Lost in 2010, he had popped up in a few movies here and there though had largely stepped back from acting. Thus, the surprise announcement that he would be joining a new project provided a sense that it must have been a excellent story to bring him back to screen.
Adapted from the book of the same name by Alex Scarrow, the five-episode series centers on petro-chemical engineer Andy Yeats who gets thrown into the middle of an energy crisis that will soon tip the world into chaos. The reasons for this are initially a mystery, but the oil that serves as the lifeblood of our modern infrastructure is no longer working as intended.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY The first question with a show like this, that boldly bills itself as a thriller, is whether it is actually exciting or intriguing. The first episode shows some promise, scattering all the characters in different locations with the looming threat of an extended separation always hanging over them. There's even an action sequence that initially felt reminiscent of a harrowing moment from the final episode of the great new series The Old Man.
More frustratingly are the thematic aspirations of the show that it is nowhere near equipped to pull off. There are a host of moral dilemmas and questions that the plot keeps dancing around, though it never has the courage to really dive into them. Without giving anything away, Last Light really seems like it is wanting to take a stance on the existential threat facing the planet and all of us living on it.
It all makes for a show that is ambivalent at best and deceptive at worst. This extends all the way up to some final key scenes that attempt to explain away its own timidness with a rushed monologue over the top of stock footage. Whether realized or not, it ends up morphing into the type of shallow inspirational video content that would be produced by the oil and gas corporations of the world to avoid responsibility for how they exacerbated the very problem we find ourselves in.
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