Frontier

Frontier follows Declan Harp, a ruthless half-Irish and half-Cree fur trader played by Jason Momoa. In late 18th-century Canada, he hunts the men who destroyed his family while fighting the Hudson’s Bay Company. Michael Smyth, Grace Emberly, Sokanon, and rival traders join the struggle as Fort James and Montreal become centers of greed, trade, and betrayal. Across all three seasons, the show keeps a dark, violent, and rough tone, with revenge and survival driving most of the action.

The clearest identity-focused element is the confirmed relationship between two men, Samuel Grant and Cobbs Pond, which becomes clear from season two onward. The show also gives major roles to Indigenous characters and strong women such as Sokanon, Grace, and Elizabeth, but these roles fit the period story and are not sold as a modern political lesson. Season three makes the buying and forced marriage of Indigenous women a major danger that Sokanon fights to stop. The show attacks company power, church-linked abuse, and European control inside its historical plot, yet it does not turn those events into present-day activist speeches.