First Exclusive Look At The Plague Paranoia InThe Last ShipSeason 2!

The Last Ship was one of the best surprises last summer — the plague Book of Revelation narrative was basically a fun - as - netherworld summer picture with heroic scientists , whom we actually see doing scientific discipline . Plus some neat post - apocalyptic political struggle . So here ’s a first smell at season two , in which there ’s a whole new storyline about scary immune people .

I never got around to doing a proper postmortem on Last Ship season one , so here ’s the thumbnail variant — the show had some stumbles early on , like when they were doing the “ stereotype of the week ” stories about terrorists , evil Russians , and South American drug lords . But the show also had some good characterization to back up its Michael Bay - inspired action moving-picture show style , and its scientist characters , particularly Rhona Mitra as Dr. Scott , are brilliant and in reality use something draw near the scientific method on occasion . Asthis clip from season one shows , this show lurched back and forth between awing MacGyvering and annoying preachiness with a drunken eagerness — but it improve as the season went on and the characters gel a spot . And the tail end of the season , with Alfre Woodard as the evil POTUS , was actually pretty solid .

So in a summer that ’s jam - pack with return shows like Extant , Under the Dome and Falling Skies , The Last Ship is surprisingly one of the returnees I ’m most pump for . Here ’s a poster :