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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Last Light’ On Peacock, Where Matthew Fox Has To Prevent An Attack On The World Oil Supply

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Believe it or not, Matthew Fox has been gone from our screens for seven years; he decided to retire from acting after a series of films in 2015. He hasn’t been on a TV series since Lost ended. Remember, this is a guy who’s been around since the premiere of Party Of Five all the way back in 1994, so it’s kind of shocking to realize we haven’t seen him in a long time. But now he’s back with a new action thriller on Peacock.

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Opening Shot: A wind-swept desert landscape. A lone man walks atop a massive sand hill.

The Gist: Two days earlier in London, Andy Yeats (Matthew Fox) is celebrating the eighth birthday of his son Sam (Taylor Fay) with his wife Elena (Joanne Froggatt) and their adult daughter Laura (Alyth Ross). When they come home, he’s greeted by representatives of the energy company he works for as a petrochemist; with Sam due to get a cutting-edge surgery in Paris to help reverse his blindness, Elena is irritated that he’s being “summoned” by Baraa (Hakeem Jomah), the company’s CEO. He promises to be in Paris in time for Andy’s surgery in two days.

When he arrives in Luzrah, Baraa tells him that the oil being processed at a new refinery is contaminated, and they don’t know how it’s happening. He’s paired with Mika Bakhash (Amber Rose Revah), a representative of the UK’s commerce ministry, to go to the refinery, which raises questions with Andy. She tells him it’s to protect the UK’s interests, even though they don’t get their oil from Luzrah.

In Paris, as Sam and Elena get ready for his surgery, Karl Bergmann (Tom Wlaschiha), Sam’s doctor, tries to reassure Elena, but is concerned that Andy isn’t there. Elena isn’t sure she believes him when he says he’ll be there.

After he takes samples and tries to transport them back to the city, Andy finds out from Mika that there is intelligence that the world’s oil supply is being contaminated as a part of an organized attack. As Andy tries to get out of Luzrah the day of Sam’s surgery, the car he and Mika are in are chased into a massive dust storm by men with guns, which is when Mika’s real role comes into focus. In the meantime, massive power in both Paris and London, where Laura is participating in environmental protests, and the hospital Sam is in is evacuated while Elena has stepped away from her son’s bedside. She has no idea where he’s being transferred to.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Last Light has elements of 24 and Homeland , as well as other action series that deal with international terrorism.

Our Take: Last Light , based on Alex Scarrow’s novel of the same name, is notable because this is Matthew Fox’s first acting gig since 2015, and the first one on TV since Lost ended 12 years ago (he’s also an executive producer along with Dennie Gordon and showrunners Patrick Massett and John Zinman). It’s a little shocking to see him with greying temples and wearing a suit, looking more like Mitt Romney than Jack Shephard. But by the end of the first episode it’s apparent that Andy Yeats is going to be a bad-ass petrochemist, as he tries to get back to his family while getting to the bottom of what looks like a coordinated attack on the world’s oil and energy supply.

The series isn’t trying to be some deep-dive dissertation on how an attack on the oil supply would have worldwide implications on every aspect of life. That aspect is there, of course, but it’s more of a straightforward espionage and terrorism thriller, with the added factor of Andy trying to get back to his spread-out family as the world shuts down around him.

The first episode generally succeeds in setting this up, but it tries to show Andy’s petrochemical bona fides by showing him analyzing samples in a refinery lab and squinting through a microscope. But it seems that the rest of the limited series is going to be more of Andy being the reluctant hero, using his knowledge to help get the oil supply going again, more filled with chases, negotiations, guns and explosions than anything science-oriented. We’ll likely buy Fox more as the action guy than the science guy, though he does play his reluctance to even hold a gun pretty well.

The family angle will be significant, and we hope Froggatt will get to do a lot more than just be a fretting wife and mother. There is some family strife in the Yeats clan that’s alluded to, mainly related to Andy’s job and his lack of presence in the family’s everyday life; we hope that the strife is explored more, but it could just as easily fall away as they try to reunite. We don’t need much of that aspect of the story to enjoy what promises to be a series full of action and intrigue, but it’ll at least give viewers something to root for.

Sex and Skin: None.

Parting Shot: Andy reluctantly takes the gun Mika offers him, and she says, “I’m afraid you’re not going to make it to Paris.”

Sleeper Star: Alyth Ross does a lot with her brief screen time as Laura, who is of course an environmental activist, mostly in response to her father’s job.

Most Pilot-y Line: At a party after the protests, Laura is attracted to a young man named Owen (Victor Alli), who asks if she’s messing with him. “Why? Because you’re super smart, ambitious and working your way through uni?” And he says, “I was going to say ‘a boring computer geek with questionable social skills.'” We dunno, it seems that his social skills are just fine from where we’re standing.

Will you stream or skip the action-packed #LastLight on @peacockTV ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) September 9, 2022

Our Call: STREAM IT. Will you come away from Last Light thinking you watched the best show ever? No. But it’s got more than enough action and intrigue, a family that’s trying to reunite during a worldwide crisis and Matthew Fox being his usual charming, gritty self (eventually).

Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.

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‘Last Light’ Is a Matthew Fox Disaster Story That Doesn’t Generate Heat: TV Review

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Amber Rose Revah as Mika Bakhash, Matthew Fox as Andy Yeats on "Last Light."

The increasing sense of precarity around the world’s infrastructure would seem to help Peacock ’s “ Last Light ” resonate: The limited series depicts a disruption in the world’s supply of petroleum, setting off a major energy crisis and fears of global cataclysm. And yet the series never finds its gear, existing as a ripped-from-future-headlines thriller that’s neither particularly credible nor especially thrilling.

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Froggatt, of “Downton Abbey,” acquits herself best among the performers. Fox, in his first series since “Lost,” struggles a bit in the lead role, having been asked to balance a scientist’s cool-burning intellect with a father’s heated passion for family. The result is lukewarm. And “Last Light,” despite featuring two well-known performers, isn’t going to be the drama that breaks out of a streamer that’s experienced its own supply problems of late.

“Last Light” premieres Thursday, September 8 on Peacock.

Peacock. Five episodes (all screened for review).

Production: Executive Producers: Dennie Gordon, Matthew Fox, William Choi, Sydney Gallonde, Rikke Ennis, Patrick Renault, Diego Piasek, Patrick Massett, and John Zinman.
Cast: Matthew Fox, Joanne Froggatt, Alyth Ross , Taylor Fay, Amber Rose Revah, Victor Alli, Tom Wlaschiha, Hakeem Jomah

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‘last light’ review: matthew fox’s inept new peacock series.

The 'Lost' star returns to TV as an oil scientist in a five-part environmental thriller series.

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Peacock ‘s Last Ligh t is a consistently inert environmental thriller that fails to deliver even the most minor thrills. But in reaching its bizarrely anticlimactic conclusion in only five episodes, none more than 44 minutes, it’s far too brisk to be mad at.

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Last Light Review: Matthew Fox Stars in Apocalyptic Peacock Miniseries

Last Light stars Matthew Fox as a chemist whose family gets wrapped up in an apocalyptic event after biological terrorism infects oil supplies.

Some people think that it's a bit odd how little we talk about the end of the world. They see the factual data and scientific reports, they know that everything is getting hotter each year, and they think that this can only end one way — apocalypse. Other people think that it isn't a big deal, and see no reason why planes, trains, and automobiles shouldn't burn through the earth's fossil fuels more and more each year. These two groups of people view the world and the future in diametrically opposite ways, and at some point, they must have a confrontation.

Last Light , a new miniseries streaming on Peacock , dramatizes that extremely relevant struggle mainly through the lens of a wealthy family. The father, Andy (played by Matthew Fox of Lost , after a seven-year absence from the industry), is a petrochemical specialist, working for big Middle Eastern oil companies, but his daughter Laura is a prominent environmental activist. Andy is attending to an emergency in the Middle East with an oil company while his wife Elena (played by Joanne Froggatt of Downton Abbey ) is taking their blind son Sam to France for a special surgery. Andy realizes that something is terribly wrong with the oil supply, which is when the proverbial poop hits the international fan in this big, sprawling, topical thriller.

The Slow Beginning of Last Light

Last Light begins somewhat slowly, taking about an hour of expositional development before anything really happens. In some ways, this is for the best, as the Yeats family dynamic gets to be explored before the actual plot kicks in, but the meandering first episode may also bore some viewers and scare them away from what is essentially a very gripping show.

The Peacock original takes its time setting up the relationships within the family, the political situation surrounding them, the surgical procedure Sam is undergoing, and the suspicious problems at the big oil company where Andy is sent to days before his son's operation. It could have been handled better, but it sets every piece of the story into play.

By the end of that episode, though, everything literally changes. Corporate espionage and possible terrorism strands Andy with the MI6 agent Mika (played by Amber Rose Reva) while societies begin a slow collapse around them. Andy has discovered that something very particular has infected the oil supply, and it's spreading like an extremely contagious disease. Cars are lighting on fire, airplanes are crashing, the electric grid is shutting down, and chaos is traveling throughout Europe and perhaps the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people want to kill Andy for the knowledge he has about the chemical warfare, and he has to trust himself with MI6 if he wants to save his family. Only, MI6 thinks he's involved.

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After that first episode, things happen very fast with Last Light , as if it were a rollercoaster building up to a drop and then unleashing itself down the narrative tracks. The miniseries generally bounces between Andy and Mika in the Middle East, Elena and Sam in France, and Laura and her boyfriend in the UK, where everyone will ultimately converge. Last Light feels like a truly international show, reflecting the scope of these dire problems with a broad, global narrative.

Climate Change and Peak Oil in Last Light

A great villain is never only villainous, which is partly why this limited series works. Within the world of Last Light , a radical environmentalist group is suspected of poisoning the petroleum infrastructure in order to initiate a new worldwide change in economic production. The way they see it, literally preventing humanity from using fossil fuels is actually the safer, more humanitarian option compared to the societal, ecological, and economic devastation that climate change will have over the next century. Yes, a large number of people will die (those flying in planes or driving in cars that crash because of poisoned oil, for instance), but it's a relative drop in the bucket for these activists.

It's a clever idea, though scientifically illogical on a global level. This way, Last Light gets to have its cake (a massive climate catastrophe) and eat it too (with a very specific group of so-called terrorists responsible, rather than everyone in 'first world' countries). Then again, who has cake and doesn't eat it? It's understandable that Last Light would want an actual, tangible threat — a group of 'bad guys' is easier to depict than the more nebulous, abstract notion of the planet's slow death due to human actions.

It may have been more interesting, however, to depict a world in which oil actually runs out and the world's governments and corporations haven't implemented and developed the right infrastructure and science to replace it. That is a very real threat as opposed to the boogeyman of some climate terrorists, and would elicit basically the same reaction as seen in Last Light . After all, the MAHB at Stanford estimates that the world's oil reserves will run out by 2052 (while natural gas will be depleted by 2060 and coal by 2090), so to invent an environmentalist group as the responsible agents seems unnecessary at best and a cop-out at worst.

Matthew Fox and Joanne Froggatt Lead Last Light Well

Regardless of the actual cause of the catastrophe, Last Light depicts the ramifications with startling suspense and gripping realism. Hospitals rush to transfer patients after the electric grid falls, looting and rioting take place amidst the blackouts, the military is brought in to police curfews and control the borders by force, and highways are littered with broken down and burning vehicles. Last Light truly excels at this dystopian imagery , none more so than when it's following Elena and her son Sam as they must evacuate the hospital and attempt to head back to the UK through masses of bodies and the wreckage of society.

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Froggatt is the real emotional center of the show as Elena, and the three-time Emmy nominee does an excellent job carrying the burden of a mother left alone with her blind child during a terrifying situation. Fox is very good as well here, playing a scientist who knows too much in a business where that could get you killed. He's surprisingly subdued and soft, convincing as a man with many regrets who absolutely loves his family even when he feels very distant from them emotionally, ideologically, or just physically. Whatever one believes about the rumors behind Matthew Fox , it's good to see him acting again after a nearly seven-year-long absence; he looks more aged and weary than in his familiar roles in Party of Five, Lost , and even Bone Tomahawk , and it suits him here.

The jittery, suspenseful sequences with Andy in the Middle East are great as well, as Andy runs for his life against the gorgeous desert backdrop, palaces, and city alleyways. Director Dennie Gordon does an excellent job with the sparse and no-nonsense action sequences, proving herself to be one of the best television directors today after a string of great episodes for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Waco, Legion, For All Mankind , and countless other shows.

Last Light Ends Poorly But is Worth Watching

Last Light runs out of fuel by the very end, however, having to tidy up a slew of plot strands to varying degrees of success. It's not entirely satisfying, and it ends on a cheaply optimistic note that's almost too saccharine to be taken seriously, what with its montage of stock footage and voiceover narration describing how great humanity is as the sun rises in one shot and a butterfly flaps its wings in the other. For a darkly serious miniseries about a terminally topical catastrophe, Last Light ends on a phony note of sentimentality that seems to say, "Don't worry, even if we are destroying the planet with climate change , we'll be just fine."

Like the aforementioned terrorist group, it's another cop-out and instance of the series' unwillingness to commit to the dire relevance of its subject. Nonetheless, the middle of Last Light makes for some fantastic, emotional suspense, a grave depiction of the possible future. If only the beginning and ending had a bit of a re-write, Last Light could've been one of the best miniseries of 2022 . All episodes of Last Light are now streaming on Peacock.

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There’s a global pandemic and an environmental crisis sending cities into chaos. No, this is not the 6 o’clock news. It’s the new Peacock drama Last Light , based on the book by Alex Scarrow.

Andy ( Matthew Fox ) and Elena Yeats ( Joanne Froggatt ) get separated one night when Andy is called in to work. Since Andy is a petrochemist, that overtime sees him embroiled in a pandemic and energy crisis where the world’s oil becomes useless. Elena is left alone to get their blind son, Sam ( Taylor Fay ), to safety while visiting Paris for a life-changing eye surgery. Meanwhile, Andy is stuck in the Middle East with Mika ( Amber Rose Revah ) who is working for British intelligence.

Fox, Froggatt, Revah, and director Dennie Gordon spoke with Rotten Tomatoes about their new show. Here are eight things we learned from the cast and director of Last Light .

1. JUST WHEN MATTHEW FOX WAS OUT, THEY PULLED HIM BACK IN

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Fox retired in 2014 after wrapping production on Bone Tomahawk and said the film allowed him to complete his bucket list by starring in a Western. He admitted, however, that he started considering a comeback by 2018.

“For the first three or four years of that, I really did think that I was completely done,” Fox said. “Then I started thinking maybe not. I kind of want to try executive producing, and I would like to be more involved in other aspects of the story rather than just the role that I’m portraying. I’d love the opportunity to be involved in post and music, just giving input and thoughts and trying to have some bigger effect on the story. That was a part of it for sure.”

2. MATTHEW FOX EARNED HIS EP CREDIT

Fox was an executive producer on Last Light , and Gordon confirmed the depth of his behind-the-scenes involvement, especially during post-production.

“All through post-production, I was sending him cuts,” Gordon said. “We would talk really until the episodes were done. We were still collaborating and still talking. That was just great to have him. He was always available to me, and it was just great to have his perspective because you can get a little blindsided, especially when you’re cutting and you’re in the room for so many hours. He was always a fresh set of eyes.”

3. ANNA BATES KICKS BUTT

Last Light puts Elena and Sam through an adventure, too, and Froggatt noted this is not her first action-heroine role, even if you know her best as Downton Abbey ’s Anna Bates.

“I did a series of Robin Hood before Downton , and I was one of Robin Hood’s gang,” Froggatt said. “I was the girl in the gang. It wasn’t historically correct. That was pretty action-packed. That was a lot of fight scenes. I was the fighty girl in the gang, which was quite fun. That definitely drew me to the project.”

Last Light has Froggatt bashing in windows and climbing ladders.

“I love doing action stuff at work,” Froggatt said. “I thrive on it. It’s just so much fun to do and makes for a really exciting watch as well. I loved it. I would’ve done more if they’d let me.”

Meanwhile, Fox admits he could have prepared better for the physical demands of his role.

“I did have several moments throughout the shooting of this where I thought that I should’ve spent more time in preparation, getting more flexible and maybe spending some more time working out and becoming more prepared for what I was going to be asked to do,” Fox said. “On the page when you look at action material, oftentimes it just undersells how hard it’s going to be to actually do it.”

4. MATTHEW FOX AND AMBER ROSE REVAH WERE FIGHTING MORE THAN ASSASSINS

Amber Rose Revah and Matthew Fox in Last Light

One of those intense fight scenes comes in episode 3. Revah said she and Fox were also fighting Covid when they were supposed to film that fight.

“We’d obviously been kind of practicing choreography continuously as we were filming,” Revah said. “In whichever breaks, I would go to the training studio and with the team we would practice it. Because we created it together, it was nice. It wasn’t just this is what will happen. There was a lot of discussion over it too. Then the day before we were going to film it, Matthew and I both got Covid. It meant that it was supposed to be maybe four or five days left of our Prague stint of our filming. It ended up that I was then in isolation for another two weeks.”

By the time they were well enough to film the fight and could reschedule it, it was a month later and Prague had fallen into winter, so they were also fighting the bitter cold.

“I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Prague but — whoo-hoo — very cold,” Revah said. “Doing a lot of kicking, punching and slamming in winter is always fun, but it was brilliant. It was great and I think it looks how we wanted it too.”

5. THIS IS NOT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Last Light is essentially a modern-day thriller and there is a global pandemic in it, but it is not Covid-19. In that, at least, it is still escapism.

“We made the decision that the audiences, by the time Last Light came out, were going to be weary of seeing people in masks,” Gordon said. “There was nothing there we needed to revisit except that we know Covid showed us how fast things can fall apart. So we always thought we were just slightly in the future. We were all people who had survived that and knew what that was. That added to the tension. That added to the thriller aspect of it, knowing how bad things got. We didn’t need to have people in masks and we didn’t need to have people on stretchers in ambulances. Everybody was a survivor.”

6. BLOOD IS THICKER THAN OIL

Joanne Froggatt and Matthew Fox in Last Light

The crisis is instigated by the end of oil. Once set in motion, all that matters to Andy and Elena is getting their family back together, including their teenage daughter, Laura (Alyth Ross), while rioting occurs across the world.

“The marriage between Andy and Elena has got some elements in it that are scratchy,” Fox said. “In the process of getting back together again, coming to the realization of what’s most important in their lives and that is their family. Andy, in particular, I think, has that stripped down to his core and the realization that he maybe has been putting his priorities in the wrong place for some time.”

Froggatt shares most of her scenes with young Fay, and Gordon said she also relied on Froggatt to be the boy’s stage mom.

“It was like ‘Jo, I don’t just need you to be Jo the brilliant actress, but I need you to be his onstage mother because he’s never done anything before,’” Gordon said. “He had no idea, so that she was always harnessing him and whispering in his ear, just keeping him safe when all these crazy things were happening all around.”

7. TAYLOR FAY CAN SEE

Joanne Froggatt and Taylor Fay in Last Light

Fay is a sighted boy. The series’ backstory is that Sam went blind later in his young life, so Gordon wanted someone who could imagine what it might be like to lose sight.

“I’ll tell you why we went that direction,” Gordon said. “He is sighted, but we needed a child who was sighted who could act blind, because this child had seen in the past. The whole lights going out for him was somebody who did know how to see, who was losing his vision. That becomes thematically important so that’s why we cast that marvelous young boy, Taylor Fay. Kid’s a natural. He’s never done anything before.”

Froggatt and Fox also responded to playing the parents of a special-needs child.

“It always resonates with you when you’re playing a character that is experiencing love and trauma for someone they love,” Froggatt said. “To put yourself in a headspace where you are doing all you can to help your child, and then this terrible thing happens around you, it’s a sort of impossible position to be in. Really.”

Fox was as impressed with Fay as Gordon was. He and Froggatt also discussed how Sam’s blindness affected their marriage.

“It would mean different things to each one of them and how over time, Andy would start to sort of maybe put more on Elena than she wanted,” Fox said. “She wanted to share that responsibility more, and he was sort of using his work as a way to duck out of that responsibility.”

8. LAST LIGHT IS TRULY INTERNATIONAL

Last Light takes place in London, Paris, and the Middle East. While they didn’t go to every exact location to film, they did travel the world finding locations.

“One of the first things I said to Matthew is, ‘I’m not building any sets. We’re only going to use real locations,” Gordon said. “He said, ‘This is music to my ears,’ because we wanted the authenticity, we wanted that reality and also audiences demand it now. You can’t be on a soundstage all day long unless you have a massive VFX budget, and you can be doing things that dazzle the eye.”

Gordon did take some of the cast and crew to Paris. Middle East scenes were filmed in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and the Al Ain Desert. And, of course, freezing Prague.

“We were out in the desert in an area called Al Ain, which is the filmmaker’s heaven like for Dune and Star Wars ,” Gordon said.” It’s like these beautiful untouched dunes as far as the eye can see. We were very happy to get to that location, because I needed to see Matthew completely lost and alone in the desert there, so we were very happy to have that dune location. It was very exciting.”

Visiting locations from Prague to the United Arab Emirates helped Revah capture Mina’s international experience as an intelligence agent. She speaks several lines of arabic, as well as other languages throughout the show.

“Also speaking to the people there because seeing different perspectives, especially the themes from the show with oil and with climate change,” Revah said. “It is a very international show in terms of its cast, in terms of all of us and crew. So I think having different perspectives, being in different areas, seeing how different cultures handle different things did really help with that.”

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Last Light (2022) Peacock Miniseries: Review, Recap & Ending Explained

Based on author Alex Scarrow’s novel of the same name, “Last Light” is an energy crisis thriller where a petrochemist tries to save the world from a group of eco-terrorists. The big ticket casting of the show doesn’t end with Fox as it also stars three-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggat, best known for playing Anna Bates in Downton Abbey (2010-2015), and Tom Wlaschiha who has been in way too many popular shows already from Game of Thrones to Stranger Things to Jack Ryan.

Last Light (2022) Peacock Miniseries Recap:

The story goes two days back.

The man is Andy Yeats, a petrochemist who is working for a huge company called Luzrah oil and energy based in the middle-east. The woman is his wife Elena, a lawyer who hasn’t worked for a while to look after their eight-year-old son Sam (Taylor Fay) who is blind. And the young girl is Andy and Elena’s daughter Laura (Alyth Ross), an environmental activist.

Upon arriving at Luzrah Andy gets to know from his employer Khalil that there is something wrong with the oil in their refinery. Khalil is visibly concerned about it and wants Andy’s expertise in this situation. Andy also meets Mika (Amber Rose Revah), a British-Government representative who is there to monitor the situation with Andy. This makes him suspicious as Britain doesn’t take oil directly from Luzrah. While going to the laboratory for testing the sample taken from the refinery; Andy, Mika, and their driver Farooq are ambushed by a group of gun-holding masked men. Mika shoots them and saves them for now and eventually, it is revealed that she is actually an agent of MI 6.

By the time they reach the airport, the air service gets suspended after the world experiences a number of plane crashes in quick succession. Seeing Elena desperate to get back, Lucas decides to take them to the border but that also seems to be closed. The border control authorities seem very staunch and despite Lucas requesting them to let Elena and Sam go through especially because of Sam’s condition, they don’t listen. In this extremely unfortunate moment, Lucas gets hit by a car and presumably dies. A frightened, anxious Ana and Sam flee the scene with a woman named Yara (Farida Rahouadj).

Andy and Mika reach the lab and Andy handover the oil sample to get it tested. Two hours later, when he gets back to the lab for the result he is shocked to see all the lab technicians are murdered by someone. Andy spots the murderer, quickly hides and takes the result with him, and eventually runs away with the murderer chasing him. As the murderer almost closes in on Andy, Mika arrives on a motorcycle and rescues Andy quickly. The two of them reach a hideout from where Andy contacts Laura through Mika’s satellite phone and asks her to break into his office to scan a particular document to send him. Mika informs MI6 about this.

Elena and Sam find shelter with Yara, who turns out to be a very generous brave woman. With the help of Yara, Elena even breaks into a pharmacy during the curfew in the middle of the night to take medicine for Sam. Eventually, Yara introduces Elena to a man who arranges a pass for Elena to go to Britain through the service tunnels. Elena goes ahead with the said plan and actually succeeds to go through but ends up detained by the British authority. She is sent to a detention center along with Sam but the authority separates the two of them.

Ash manages to find them and tries to take Laura with him but Owen fights him, takes his gun, and ends up killing him. A distraught Laura, who by now is aware of both Owen’s betrayal and her father being the person responsible for the invention of the virus tries to contact a Government official to share all the information and eventually meets a high-ranked official named Carl Bergman (Wlaschiha) who works very closely with the British Prime minister.

A mysterious man is introduced in the middle of all these who seems to be the main mastermind orchestrating the whole thing. His face is not revealed.

With the help of MI6, he manages to rescue both Laura and Sam from the detention center. Meanwhile, MI6 manages to solve one piece of the puzzle thanks to agent Thompson (Jim High) arresting a man named Stefan Pesivic (Andrej Polák) who turns out to be the person who runs most of the organized, internet-based operation of the Apocalypse watch group. Following this trail, they end up zeroing in on another man named James Bradford which seems to be an alias of Tobias. After reaching home with Elena and Sam, Andy finds Laura is missing, and at the same moment MI6 storms into Bradford’s location only to find out that Tobias is none other than Government official Carl Bergman who has now kidnapped Laura.

Andy finally meets Tobias in the same place where they used to hangout years ago and it is eventually revealed that it was Andy’s idea to develop a bacteria which will contaminate all the oil and create a crisis in the world which will eventually make mankind more kind and sensitive towards the environment. Andy tells Tobias it was only an idea he had as a young student and never meant to implement it, especially in the radical manner Tobias did. The two of them engage in a physical tussle while Laura runs away to safety. The MI6 finally manages to reach them and Tobias kills himself in front of everyone. The bacteria attack could not be prevented, after all.

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The series ends with a series of inspiring visuals about how the world recovered after the crisis along with voiceovers of Cameron and Andy.

Last Light (2022) Peacock Miniseries Ending, Explained: Did Tobias actually win?

As it was revealed in the end that the world did face the crisis and then emerge from it stronger and better than ever without causing more harm to the environment, Tobias’s dream actually came true.

Considering all that, it can be said that Tobias did win. His means were obviously wrong and his act of terrorism can never be justified as we see an enraged Laura kicking the shit out of him telling him that people are dying because of what he has done. However, his whole ideology regarding the environment and how people should be indebted to mother Earth and her natural resources, and how politicians and businessmen should be prevented from exploiting it was so on point.

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“Last Light” falls somewhere in the middle. While it does have certain things going for it, there are glaring flaws as well which prevent it from soaring high. Especially the rushed, badly written, extremely generic finale almost ruins all the good work that was done in the first four episodes.

The biggest problem with this show is it tries to be too much but while doing that, it doesn’t reach anywhere. It was evident from the beginning that they wouldn’t cast Wlaschiha in an insignificant role so the big twist right before the finale doesn’t really work and seems like a cheap parlor trick. Instead of doing that, the character of Tobias as well as Andy’s backstory with him could have been explored.

The ultimate result is a very underwhelming, unsatisfying, close to five-hour of media content about things we are already aware of. In any case, we certainly didn’t need this exhausting lesson in the name of entertainment. Fox does his best to save it and Alyth Ross’s spirited performance makes it tolerable but ultimately the whole thing is very much unnecessary and will be forgotten soon.

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Review: ‘Last Light’ is an eco-thriller with a pulse

Adapted from the best-seller by Alex Scarrow, Last Light marks a return to screens for Lost alumni and Emmy award winning actor Matthew Fox, who last appeared on film in 2015 alongside Kurt Russell in Bone Tomahawk .

Last Light is a globe-trotting eco-thriller centered on the Yeats family. Petrochemist Andy (Matthew Fox), attorney Elena (Joanne Froggatt), Instagram activist Laura (Alyth Ross), and her partially sighted brother, Sam (Taylor Fay). This Peacock original also ups the ante and maximizes dramatic potential by incorporating international destinations alongside a climate change subtext to tap into contemporary concerns.

Much of this opening episode establishes family dynamics. Elena is protector, home maker and intellectual equal to her high-flying husband, whereas Laura is confrontational, resourceful, and social media savvy. Leaving Taylor Fay as Sam, who is inherently disarming alongside Joanne Froggatt’s Elena, allowing them, crucially, to create an inseparable bond early on.

Penned by Patrick Massett and John Zinman ( Friday Night Lights ), this family-centric series beds down quietly, then ramps up tensions across its remaining episodes. Building momentum early, audiences are introduced to the clan on Sam’s birthday before landing in Paris, where he is scheduled for groundbreaking eye surgery. However, in the first of many predictable moments, Andy is called away to investigate an oil anomaly, which kicks things up a gear.

As Last Light ramps up, it becomes apparent this series thrives on individual crises, as narrative threads are split between international locations. Andy spends much of his time in Luzrah, poring over data and digging deeper into this escalating oil crisis. Elsewhere in Paris, Elena and Sam are stranded as global unrest builds, not only exploiting dramatic potential, but endearing Sam to audiences. Leaving Laura alone in London killing time at college, while capturing climate change protests on social media.

Both Mika (Amber Rose Reuah) and Ash (Felix Sandman) prove to be pivotal companions for Andy and Elena in their time apart. One a doctor connected to Sam’s eye surgery, another an impartial political attaché from England sent to oversee Middle Eastern activities. Between them they prove invaluable at bringing husband and wife together, as well as ensuring this story never lags.

Comparisons with Stephen Ganghan’s Syriana are unavoidable, as are references to Len Wiseman’s Die Hard 4.0 . With some cleverly-conceived action sequences alongside an ever-present sense of brooding claustrophobia, Last Light also packs a political punch, marking itself out as eerily on-point in terms of discussions around energy infrastructure.

As this fragmented family unit continues to face a series of related challenges, Last Light morphs into an action thriller with shades of personal melodrama. British intelligence shows a keen interest in Andy, which in turn proves beneficial to his wife Elena. Their daughter Laura also finds herself falling for Owen Jones (Victor Ali), a seemingly harmless college connection with one or two ulterior motives.

Andy also finds himself quizzed by government agencies, as it becomes clear this petrochemical anomaly could cause bigger problems. As the oil supplies begin to mutate worldwide and exploding car bonnets threaten human life, Last Light digs deep in its quest to maintain momentum.

However, all that effort feels wasted as a militant splinter group seeks to bring down the system from within by targeting key strategic hubs, a move which leaves intelligence agencies guessing and Andy Yeats living on his wits. As allegiances are challenged and secrets revealed, Last Light then proceeds to fall back on narrative formula, signposting many of the so-called surprises which define its final episodes.

In terms of Matthew Fox and his return to television, he slips into the role of Andy Yeats like a second skin. Still marshalling his everyman appeal with ease, this world-weary family man, unintentional diplomat, and intellectual wunderkind proves very resourceful, not only summoning the action hero through night time pursuits in Luzrah, but more importantly pulling off indifferent genius in an effort to reunite his family.

Whether Last Light is a television series worthy of greatest estimation is up for debate; there will be some who fail to connect, because Armageddon through oil was never going to be sexy, whereas others will go in cold with no pre-conceptions and be immersed minutes later. Much of that will depend not only on fans after their Matthew Fox fix, but those hoping for Lost levels of plot complexity. As audiences disappear down the rabbit hole keen for Last Light to rekindle the career of a gifted character actor, it will become apparent that this slick eco-thriller might not be all they were expecting.

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Last Light Ending, Explained: Who Is Behind the Oil Crisis?

Based on the 2007 namesake novel by Alex Scarrow, ‘Last Light’ Is a Peacock action thriller series. The story follows the Yeats family. Andy Yeats (Matthew Fox) is a renowned Petro-chemist who works for a major energy and oil company. In the days leading up to the experimental surgery for his son’s degenerative eye condition in Paris, he is pulled away to the Middle East because of a developing emergency, though he promises he will be there on the day of the surgery. Andy’s wife, Elena (Joanne Froggatt), subsequently leaves for Paris with their son, Sam (Taylor Fay), while their daughter Laura (Alyth Ross) stays back in London. As the world starts to break down around them, Andy and his family desperately try to reunite with each other. If you are wondering what happens at the end of ‘Last Light,’ we got you covered. SPOILERS AHEAD.

Last Light Season 1 Recap

The five-episode miniseries begins with a flashforward in which Andy is stuck in the middle of a desert during a storm. The narrative then shifts two days back, and we see the Yeats family celebrating Sam’s birthday at a restaurant. As they reach home, Andy is approached by people from his work, Luzrah Oil & Energy, telling him about a developing catastrophe. With Sam’s surgery only days away, his decision to leave predictably causes friction between him and Elena. It is also heavily implied that Andy and Elena are having marital trouble for a while. Elena was previously employed, but she has devoted herself to caring for her son for the last few years. Meanwhile, ironically, Laura is an environmental activist, so her relationship with her Petro-Chemist father isn’t ideal either.

Once Andy is in the Middle East, he is introduced to Mika Bakhash (Amber Rose Revah), a British government representative. Andy wonders aloud why she is there as they head toward the oil fields as a storm starts to brew. After collecting samples, Andy, Mika, and their security detail drive toward the laboratory. This is when they are attacked while a storm rages around them, and Andy finds out that Mika is British Intelligence.

After depositing samples, Andy goes to the hotel and continues to try calling his family, but none of those calls goes through. When he returns to the laboratory, he discovers that most employees there have been gunned down. He goes on the run and is found by Mika. It is revealed that she now suspects him. He convinces her to give him her satellite phone, so he can speak to his family. He once more fails to contact Elena but does get through to Laura and tells her to find a file in his office, take photos of its content, and then e-mail them. What Laura doesn’t tell him is that she is in considerable danger herself.

In London , Laura grows close to Owen Jones (Victor Alli), a self-proclaimed computer nerd with questionable social skills. She discovers that a man with dreadlocks is after her. While they try to escape, the man shoots Owen, prompting Laura to take him to the hospital. It is there that she receives the call from her father.

Meanwhile, as electricity starts to shut down across Europe, cars stop working, and planes drop off the sky, people begin to realize that something is definitely wrong with the fuel. Sam’s surgery is postponed indefinitely, so Elena decides to return to London with her son. However, she soon discovers that all flights have been canceled. With the help of her son’s doctor, she reaches the border, but the doctor is killed after a car hits him. An immigrant woman subsequently helps Laura and Sam to reach England, where they are detained despite being British citizens.

Meanwhile, after Andy lands in England, Mika and her superiors have him arrested, suspecting his involvement in the global catastrophe. In the season finale, following the revelation of the real mastermind, his reunion with Elena and Sam, and the presumption that his daughter has been kidnapped, Andy races against time to save Laura and human civilization as we know it.

Last Light Season 1 Ending: Who Is Behind the Oil Crisis? What Is Causing the Oil Crisis?

After returning to the UK, Andy is taken into custody by British Intelligence. It is revealed that the file he earlier told Laura to take photos of and e-mail is directly connected to what is happening in the world. Twenty-five years ago, Andy and his friend, Tobias Heller, wrote a thesis on how to deal with the environmental crisis and climate change. They developed a bacteria that can eat oil. But then, Andy met Elena, got married, and started to raise a family. This made him brutally pragmatic about the world around him, and he subsequently became part of the machinery that he had desperately loathed. In the ensuing years, he worked as a Petro-chemist for some of the biggest oil and energy companies in the world, with Luzrah being the latest.

Tobias, who is now part of the British government under the alias Karl Bergmann (Tom Wlaschiha), is the mastermind behind Apocalypse Watch, the eco-terrorist group that spreads the virus across nations, causing the oil disaster and deaths of thousands. ‘Last Light’ tries to deconstruct the radical approach to environmentalism. While it accepts that something must be done to course-correct humanity’s current march towards doom, it also earnestly depicts the possible tragic ramifications of such actions.

Why Does Tobias/Karl Kidnap Laura?

Although it seems by the end of episode four that Tobias has kidnapped Laura to lure Andy into his trap, it is soon revealed that she is a willing participant. Laura’s environmentalism directly contradicts her father’s work, and they both are aware of it. She is surprised — and to a degree, horrified — that her father used to be a radical environmentalist in his youth. During their confrontation, Tobias forces Andy to remember who he used to be. When Andy tries to admit that he indeed betrayed Tobias, the latter corrects him by saying he betrayed himself.

However, despite their ideological differences, Laura realizes her father is right about the deaths of thousands and helps him with Tobias. She and Andy try to escape just as Tobias tells his people to find them. Fortunately for Andy and Laura, the government forces arrive right then.

Why Does Tobias/Karl Die by Suicide?

In the climactic scene of ‘Last Light,’ Tobias and Andy fight. When the British special forces arrive, Tobias kills himself, but not before reminding Andy to do his part. Although Andy has developed a virus that can kill the bacteria, it is not delivered in time to save oil because Tobias knowingly kept him engaged. The clock runs out, and the apocalypse begins.

However, humanity perseveres. With his death, Tobias paints himself as the villain and Andy as the hero. And the world looks to the latter for the answers. And just as Tobias hoped, Andy and the rest of humanity rise up together. Humanity becomes more social, with people helping each other through trying times. Innovations that haven’t even been thought of before take place because there is suddenly a need for them. In the absence of oil, the world has no other choice but to look for alternative sources of energy, and nature starts to heal.

In the personal life of the Yeats family, healing happens as well. The relationship between Andy and Elena improves in the post-apocalyptic utopian world, as does the one between Laura and Andy. Sam’s surgery finally takes place, and he can see now. The world is greener, healthier, and happier.

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'Last Light' Review: Matthew Fox's Return to Television Is a Disaster of Its Own Making

Even as the 'Lost' alum does his best to instill the story with some sort of emotion, this limited series gets lost in all the wrong ways.

Though it may feel like a lot longer, it was a year ago this month when we first got news that actor Matthew Fox would be returning to television with the Peacock limited series Last Light . Following the conclusion of Lost in 2010, he had popped up in a few movies here and there though had largely stepped back from acting. Thus, the surprise announcement that he would be joining a new project provided a sense that it must have been a excellent story to bring him back to screen. Alas, that couldn’t have been more wrong.

Adapted from the book of the same name by Alex Scarrow , the five-episode series centers on petro-chemical engineer Andy Yeats (Fox) who gets thrown into the middle of an energy crisis that will soon tip the world into chaos. The reasons for this are initially a mystery, but the oil that serves as the lifeblood of our modern infrastructure is no longer working as intended. It then falls to Andy to hit the road to investigate the cause of the issue as all aspects of modern society as we know it becomes impacted. As he does so, he struggles to then make his way back to his family now that most conventional forms of transportation are no longer viable. His wife Elena ( Joanne Froggatt ) has to look after their son Sam ( Taylor Fay ) who was just about to have surgery to address a degenerative eye disease that is causing him to lose his sight. Separate from all of them is their daughter Laura ( Alyth Ross ), who disapproves of her father’s work and is most concerned about the growing catastrophe facing the climate. As this family drama plays out, various government officials such as Karl Bergmann ( Tom Wlaschiha ) try to address the problem, though always seem to remain one step behind.

The first question with a show like this, that boldly bills itself as a thriller, is whether it is actually exciting or intriguing. The first episode shows some promise, scattering all the characters in different locations with the looming threat of an extended separation always hanging over them. There's even an action sequence that initially felt reminiscent of a harrowing moment from the final episode of the great new series The Old Man . However, Last Light is nowhere near as grounded and gritty in how it stages its action. Instead, it feels clunky and forced before quickly ending as soon as it started. There is no tension to it, as the story shows us how it ends before flashing back. While not an entirely uncommon framing device, it ends up robbing the scene of any weight. This serves as a problem that drags down the show writ large; nothing ever feels like it has much of any stakes. Despite many moments that are practically shouting at you about how serious things are, everything always seems to be mostly okay. One episode ends where a character seems to be in serious trouble, only for the next one to pick up with the problem apparently solved offscreen. It reminded me of another recent show from the streamer, The Undeclared War , which had similar shortcomings though now looks downright dazzling by comparison.

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What makes it worse than Last Light being rather boring is how it repeatedly talks down to its audience. Much of this is baked into the narrative, which tries to convince you that a twist that can be seen from a mile away is actually a thrilling subversion. While it is abundantly obvious almost immediately what is coming, the story drags it out for so long that you want to shout for it to just get it over with already. Even when it is crystal clear what the deception is, there are still several agonizing moments where characters inexplicably act oblivious to what is happening. The truth is staring them right in the face, and the show carries on with the charade for an absurd amount of time. What should be a key moment is deflated of any explosive potential in this execution, leaving little reason to care about where the story is going next. Perhaps there was a genuine concern that audiences wouldn’t pick up on the reveal, but the manner in which it spells everything out is done to a ridiculous extreme, so excessive it becomes insulting. The story is nowhere near intricate or complex enough to require this approach, yet Last Light behaves as if it is actually the most multilayered work you’ve ever seen. Not only is this far from the case, but it is hard to connect with any of the characters who all are so flat that the actors are left with very little to work with. Fox does his best to bring some passion to the scattershot scenes he gets, but they are so dispassionate that it just begins to feel like a losing battle. Any spark he provides is completely extinguished.

More frustratingly are the thematic aspirations of the show that it is nowhere near equipped to pull off. There are a host of moral dilemmas and questions that the plot keeps dancing around, though it never has the courage to really dive into them. Without giving anything away, Last Light really seems like it is wanting to take a stance on the existential threat facing the planet and all of us living on it. From the very first episode, we see how Laura disagrees with what her father now does for work and how it continues to enable the problem. The resolution to this conflict, both the familial and global one, is a cowardly cop-out. Last Light reveals itself as a show without any courage in its convictions, playing out like the television equivalent of a politician giving a canned speech about unity that is utterly devoid of substance. There have been many great recent works that grapple with how grim the future of the planet is and the desire to take radical action to address it from Kelly Reichardt ’s Night Moves to Paul Schrader ’s First Reformed . Both of those stories are profoundly honest and appropriately sorrowful. Last Light is more akin to a corporate PR response that seeks to muddy the waters, a story that paints with such a broad brush that it becomes a bland malaise.

It all makes for a show that is ambivalent at best and deceptive at worst. This extends all the way up to some final key scenes that attempt to explain away its own timidness with a rushed monologue over the top of stock footage. Whether realized or not, it ends up morphing into the type of shallow inspirational video content that would be produced by the oil and gas corporations of the world to avoid responsibility for how they exacerbated the very problem we find ourselves in. Last Light is a show that is not responsible for any of this nor could it fix it, but it is hard to think of a recent work of fiction that has so thoroughly failed to tell a story that authentically engages with the crisis facing the planet. For a show that clearly thinks it is making revelatory observations about the state of the world, it could not come across as more off-target. The result is an experience that is both dull and despondent in equal measure. Last Light is hardly able to justify its own existence, failing at being entertaining or incisive and cementing its place as one of the most misguided shows of the year thus far.

You can watch all five episodes of Last Light starting September 8 on Peacock.

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Last Light: Matthew Fox slipping into new Peacock event series tackling a global oil meltdown

A worldwide collapse that unfolds in real time, a desperate dad trying to unravel its secrets while finding his way back home, and a shadowy cabal that may be behind it all — that’s the book-based setup for Last Light , a new event series headed to Peacock that lends a barrel of crude, real-world gravity to the idea of global apocalypse.

Matthew Fox ( Lost ) will make his return to TV in the new limited drama thriller series, alongside Golden Globe-winning co-star Joanne Froggatt ( Liar , Downton Abbey ), Peacock announced today. Based on Alex Scarrow’s 2007 international best-selling novel of the same name, Last Light follows the global chaos that ensues when the world’s oil infrastructure is suddenly interrupted — and tracks a sinister mystery that suggests it was much more than a mere accident.

Last Light is set to run as a 5-episode event series, with Fox executive producing along with William Choi and Entertainment 360. Also serving as an executive producer is Dennie Gordon ( Jack Ryan ), who will direct the full series. Patrick Massett and John Zinman ( Friday Night Lights , The Blacklist ) will serve as showrunners as well as executive producers. The series hails from MGM International TV Productions in association with Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay.

While earth-shattering apocalyptic themes often rely on zombies , plagues , aliens , and other sci-fi staples, Scarrow’s novel wrests a more reality-based brand of tension from a scenario that feels far more plausible. What happens when the energy that makes the world go ‘round suddenly runs out?

“This is a timely thriller about society’s dependency on oil and its devastating effects on our planet,” said Rola Bauer, President of MGM International TV Productions, in Peacock’s announcement.

Fox will star as Andy Neilson. an American ex-pat living in London. As one of the world’s most sought-after petrochemical engineers, Andy is “brilliant and very in demand, but his drive and ambition have sometimes been to the detriment of his family life,” Peacock teases. Stuck on a business trip to the Middle East when chaos erupts, “Andy realizes that his worst fears are coming true and his family is separated at this crucial moment. His teenage daughter, Laura, is alone at home in London while his wife, Elena, and young son, Sam, are in Paris.”

Froggatt, meanwhile, will try to hold the family together as Elena Neilson, a “smart, caring, and beautiful” mom devoted to reversing the degenerative eye disease that afflicts Sam, their youngest child. Elena surrenders a “thriving professional career [to] put all of her considerable energy and ability toward finding a cure,” though her dedication is “tempered by the state of her marriage, which has been strained to the breaking point.”

“ Last Light is the perfect combination of an action-packed limited series with a compelling family drama at its heart,” said Lisa Katz, president of scripted content at NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “…[T]his sweeping international saga spans several continents that provide a stunning global backdrop, yet is grounded in a relatable and topical story. We can’t wait to share this with Peacock audiences.”

There’s no early word on when Last Light will flicker to life, though Peacock said that Gordon, as director, is “currently on the ground in Prague,” where location filming for Last Light is set to get underway.

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Last Light: release date and everything we know about the apocalyptic thriller

The series marks Matthew Fox’s return to "television."

Matthew Fox as Andy Yeats in the desert in Last Light

Based on Alex Scarrow’s international best-selling novel of the same name, comes the new limited series Last Light starring Matthew Fox. The show marks Fox’s triumphant return to the screen, having last been seen on television in the hit series Lost and the movie B one Tomahawk .

While it’s too early to know if his new role will garner critical acclaim that rivals his other projects, his fans should anticipate the best because at the very least, the concept of Last Light — surviving in a world without oil — sounds incredibly intriguing.

Here’s everything we know about Last Light.

When is the Last Light release date?

Last Light premieres on Thursday, September 8, on Peacock . As of now, we are uncertain if the entire five-episode limited series debuts on September 8 or if episodes roll out on a weekly basis. However, once we receive confirmation, we’ll be sure to pass along that information.

Additionally, as of right now, we don’t yet have an official word as to when the series premieres in the UK, but we anticipate it very well could debut on Peacock via Sky TV . Once we receive more information, we’ll again be sure to pass along the update.

What is Last Light about?

Here is the synopsis of Last Light as reported by Peacock:

" Last Light is based on Alex Scarrow’s international best-selling novel Last Light , which tells the story of a family fighting to survive in a world that has been suddenly thrown into chaos.

"Petro-chemist Andy Nielsen knows how dependent the world is on oil; if something were to happen to the world’s oil supply, it would set off a chain reaction: transportation would grind to a halt, supplies would cease to be delivered, law enforcement would be overwhelmed. While on a business trip to the Middle East, Andy realizes that his worst fears are coming true and his family is separated at this crucial moment. His teenage daughter, Laura, is alone at home in London while his wife, Elena, and young son, Sam, are in Paris. Amid this chaos, each family member will sacrifice everything to find one another, despite the distance and the dangers that separate them."

Last Light cast

Joanne Froggatt as Elena Yeats and Taylor Fay as Sam Yeats holding hands in Last Light

As previously mentioned, the cast is led by Hollywood veteran Matthew Fox starring as Andy Yeats. Fox is most widely known for his roles as Jack Shephard in Lost and Charlie Salinger in Party of Five . While the Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee has been in other projects since his departure from both series, Last Light marks his most significant return to acting since starring in 2015’s Bone Tomahawk .

Starring alongside Fox as Eleana Yeats is Joanne Froggatt. Froggatt is perhaps most recognizable for her role as Anna Bates in Downton Abbey: A New Era . She has additionally been featured in UK programming such as Sherwood and Angela Black .

Rounding out the rest of the cast are Alyth Ross ( Traces ), Amber Rose Revah ( The Punisher ), Victor Alli ( The Man Who Fell to Earth ), Tom Wlaschiha ( Stranger Things ), Hakeem Jomah ( Kidnap ) and Taylor Fay.

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Earlier, producer Siyad Kokker had taken legal action against the same reviewer for making derogatory remarks against his movie ‘Maarivillin Gopurangal’ and its actors. As a result, the review video was taken down by the Youtuber. Youtuber Aswanth Kok had posted scathing reviews against ‘Maarivillin Gopurangal’. He had even insulted the cast and crew of the film. Siyad Kokker had taken the legal recourse even as suits exist in the High Court against review bombing. Mubeen Rouf the director of ‘Aromalinte Aadyathe Pranayam’ had filed a suit alleging that review bombing destroys movies. This suit is currently under consideration of the court. The Amicus Curiae, in his report, too had suggested that reviews shouldn’t be posted at least until two days after the release of a movie. Despite this, most reviewers, including Aswanth Kok keep posting reviews on their Youtube channels.

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But when Diddi is killed in a freak fire in a road tunnel the next morning – a national disaster that claims upwards of a dozen lives – Una finds herself alone with her searing grief. Diddi’s friends fly in to check hospitals and records; people she has never met, but who have known him all their lives. Klara (Katla Njálsdóttir) is there, a dead ringer for Una and recognized as the officially bereaved. The friends hug each other. These people own his past which, given that Diddi now has no future, means they own him.

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It’s understandable. There were only five of them in the 10th grade in their tiny country high school, Diddi’s old schoolmate Siggi (Gunna Hrafn Kristjánsson) tells her. It is an immediately recognizable but unfathomable bond.

Una is an oddball in her way, a “pan-sexual” who dresses in men’s clothes, but she is not so against convention that she would break Klara’s heart with the truth. Instead, she tells herself she is the real widow and bites her tongue. These two women give remarkable, sensitive performances; they are perfect foils for each other. Klara is cow-eyed, flattened by sadness, fleshy where Una is lithe, a bit of a country bumpkin. Klara is not, however, any kind of fool.

Whenever he can, he takes us outdoors, showing the sun descend to the horizon while casting its empty spotlight across the waves. At times – when skipping us over the sea or taking us through the doomed tunnel – the light becomes an abstraction, heightened by the soaring voices of boy choirs that he already used to powerful effect in his 2015 film Sparrows .

There is a sense of living under a great canopy of light, with roofs an insignificant interruption. Going to find out if Diddi is one of the dead, talking about him, celebrating him – all within a space of 24 hours – is the story’s busywork, but it is overarched by the transcendent.

That said, Rúnarsson has kept his ambitions small; his canvas is limited, his narrative spare – so spare, indeed, that it sometimes drags. Within his self-imposed limitations, however, he draws a portrait of muffled grief that feels true and poignant. The reflective pairing of the two young women, emphasized by a visually inventive moment when their images merge in a window where one is seen through the glass and the other as a reflection, recalls the existential ambiguity of Bergman’s Persona . Una feels more than she can say; Klara knows more. Their silence communicates volumes; their shared pain is so thick you could run your hands through it. Somehow, they will find their way through silence to accommodate each other.

As an opening-night choice for Cannes ‘ Un Certain Regard, When the Light Breaks sets a standard for the original and specific vision that is expected of films in this section. Whether its heavy-hearted melancholy will be a hallmark of the sidebar itself will be revealed over the next 12 days.

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