Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
Executive Producer Michael Bay presents The Last Ship, a post-apocalyptic action drama series, starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra and Adam Baldwin.My stumbling on Sting's `The Last Ship album and play led to this stumbling on a TV show. The trailer above was posted in May 2013, and the following clip was posted just last month:
A year of advance billing, and of waiting for scores of Michael Bay fans, my happenstance discovery is more than perfect timing, it's yet another in a veritable wave of synchronicity for me in recent weeks. `The Last Ship will premier this month - June 22nd, Sunday at 8 PM (CT), on TNT, to be exact - and I must have a look.
Having just discovered a new virus that could drive man to extinction, a young doctor begins a video journal to track her progress in preventing a global pandemic.
Dr. Scott outlines her theory on how global warming might have exposed the modern world to an ancient virus to which we have no natural immunity.From the classic 1955 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, to its most recent film iteration The Invasion (2007) and its variation on a theme Contagion (2011), `The Last Ship has a storied, frightening lineage. I am in the midst of writing several blogs on the theme of virulent disease vs vulnerable humankind, as part of a complicated Algorithm for Disease that I'm conceptualizing. Let's see how Bay's work can advance my thinking.
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