The Last Ship (TV Series) No Place Like Home (2014) User Reviews

Not a detective show, thank God!

[yvonneshusband · 8/10 · 7 November 2014]

I've just watched the season finale and it hasn't disappointed. The crew arrives in Baltimore looking for what's left of the Government and finds a euthanasia/extermination programme (complete with incineration as a means of power) in progress run by Lt Granderson's own mother, who captures the ship (a little too easily, to be honest) and now plans on using the recently formulated cure to expand her elitist stronghold across the disease ravaged city. Meanwhile, Cdr Chandler finds his family but even as he's forced to come to terms with a bereavement, he finds himself trapped in the city and cut off. It would seem Thorwald, the 'warlord', will prove to be the real champion of what's left of civilisation; I won't be surprised if he turns out to be an ally next season. So what if it's not perfect, it's a darn site more entertaining then most of the detective show rubbish that passes for T.V. these days, and it's managed to move part way into the televisual space occupied almost exclusively by 'Walking Dead' without copying it. I'm looking forward to next season.

No Place Like Home OR Soylent Grey

[PartialMovieViewer · 10/10 · 3 September 2014]

Well the season has wrapped up and I have changed my tune. I admit it. This show turned out to be pretty good. At the onset – I really thought this show was a stinker, a loser, a flop, a failure, a debacle and maybe even a bit of a bust. I was quite sure of my conclusions until I read some reviews from people like "dean-556". I digested their words and became enlightened. I discovered my perception was all screwed up. My mistake was that I did not relate "The Last Ship" to the 1960s "Star Trek" series. How could I be so blind? Once my mindset was realigned, I quickly conquered that hurdle of intolerance and started ingesting the kool-aide. In this episode the Nathan James anchors off Maryland and sends two landing parties ashore in order to share Dr. Scott's cure. No shocker here – the RHIBs are top-heavy with brass, while the CHENG is left behind, in command of a 'Red Shirt' skeleton-crew. As Baltimore's surface appears, you know all is not peachy-keen. It does not take long for evil to uncoil itself and expose a dangerously unnerving plot. I won't say what the plot is – but it has nothing to do with 'Soylent Green.' Chilling? Scared yet? Seasick? Shaking in fear? We have to wait (unless this show gets canceled) Oh - and so the season wrap-up is somewhat lackluster and really contrived, it is fun. And please don't take this show seriously – it is not intended as propaganda, it is entertainment. If one is bound and determined to label this as propaganda you are missing the mark. I am looking forward to next season.

Is this really home?

[tenshi_ippikiookami · 8/10 · 30 November 2016]

Surprise, surprise, "The Last Ship" offers a surprisingly strong finale, which ticks all the boxes and will keep the viewer waiting for more.

Chandler's family is sick, Alisha Granderson's mother is in Baltimore and they seem to have some kind of government, Titus Welliver's Thorwald looks mean and menacing... But we have got the cure, right? All is going to end well, it has to. No? No?

The plot teases us with a new bad guy, Thorwald, and the new danger; the warlords that have been popping around like mushrooms and want to be in control of things. And then hits the viewer with a lot of interesting and inspired plot developments. The fast pace won't let the viewer breathe, and, curiously, all the characters get interesting arcs and stories (all the relevant ones, at least). The direction is good, and the action more than just people shooting in the dark (all those bad shooters in previous episodes...).

"No Place Like Home" is lots of fun, and delivers on the promise of the show. And it ends with a lot of interesting questions that will need to be answered in future seasons. A great finale.

Clapping?? Really??

[kateAraya715 · 6/10 · 8 February 2022]

So this show is pretty great. It's mindless entertainment and so I wish it were a little more cerebral- can't lie. But it's still good. My first real issue is that tho I can conceive of various situations where a Naval Commander would get sentimental w the crew he's going to probably have to go throw serious life-altering situations, I can't understand WHY the writers would take a group of doctors and without more than a nod have them START CLAPPING?? It really brought a lot of buffoonery to the forefront. And now I'm just expecting a bunch of idiotic writing. Which is a shame bc I kept forgiving some ridiculousness. But this was like adding a brick of butter to an ice cream sandwich. Way too much.

Doctors DO NOT CLAP. They start asking questions and get to work. Wasting 20 min clapping for someone they've never met?

I feel like we are at the part of TWD where it's the same scenario over and over and no one remembers what happened the last time they went into a convenience store - at night - by themselves.

I hope it gets better again.