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“The Last Frontier” premieres Friday on Apple TV+, crashing 18 federal prisoners into Alaska’s wilderness in a violent thriller with well-executed action sequences.

The show is part of television’s enduring fascination with Arctic settings, where snow functions as aesthetic canvas, physical obstacle and deadly narrative force.

From “Alaska Daily” to “True Detective: Night Country,” snowy landscapes transform familiar stories, offering exotic backdrops that captivate viewers with mystery and claustrophobia.

In “The Last Frontier,” which premieres Friday on Apple TV+, a plane carrying federal prisoners goes down in the Alaskan wilderness outside a town where Frank Remnick (Jason Cla

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