Television serial ‘Last Resort’ echoes Pakistan-US tension
The cast of “Last Resort” (left to right): Camille De Pazzis, Sahr Ngaujah, Autumn Reeser, Jessy Schram, Scott Speedman, Andre Braugher, Daniel Lissing, Daisy Betts and Dichen Lachman – Photo courtesy ABC
NEW YORK, July 22: A new ABC television series being released this autumn opens with a premise that a US nuclear powered submarine captain defies White House orders to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons, as it’s deemed a threat to international peace and security.
In the new series ‘Last Resort’, the submarine ‘Colorado’ is equipped with nuclear warheads which are considered capable of destroying countries, which is a fact. The fiction is the premise to destroy Pakistan!
However, as the drama unfolds in a dramatic twist the ships Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher) demands confirmation of the orders only to be unceremoniously relieved of duty by the White House.
This puts his second-in-command Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman) under the spot as his handed over the charge of the submarine and has to make the same decision, which he turns down. Upon Kendal’s refusal to shoot the nuclear missiles at Pakistan, the submarine is targeted, fired upon, and hit.
The crew are then declared rogue enemies of their own country.
Now, with nowhere left to turn, Chaplin and Kendal take the sub on the run and bring the men and women of the ‘Colorado’ to an exotic island. Here they will find refuge, romance and a chance at a new life, even as they try to clear their names and get home.
The series is being heavily promoted by the production company in movie theatres this summer. It is scheduled to be released in October-November.
Serial to reality !!!
Pakistan soon i guess within 20 years would be wiped out of atlas if it doesn't stop supporting rogue taliban and the haqqani network.
I think this movie has got a lot of things which hints that its the real plan in their devilish minds. I think so because the Hollywood or more precisely the minds controlling the USA is a strong, very clever and satanic group "The Freemasons" and when they start implementing the plan, the give some hints before. Like the 9/11 attacks, which they hinted in other movies and even cartoons very early. So, it should be taken seriously and i also accept that most of the Americans are really good human beings and they hate wars, they are soft and kind to others as depicted in the movie.
Remember Curt Russel's Executive Decision released sometime in late 90s. 9/11 happened just on the same lines. Similarly, Media (film, print and TV) is considered to be the element of national power by the US has been consistently used in the past to force the viewers into their own way of thinking.
Closure of NATO supplies has obviously been a flashpoint for the lone superpower of the world, but this kind of desperate reaction can only happen in dramas and movies. Everybody knows the consequences of initiating a nuke strike against a country which has credible 2nd strike capability.
hmmm…….. Do you think Pakistan has even the first nuke strike capability against USA, leave aside the 2nd strike capability you have mentioned ?
USA does not need to destroy pakistan, pakistani themselves are doing a good job of destroying their country.
The serial is not about US and Pakistan tension, it is more about a few people standing up for the right things and against injustice and wrong policies of there on administration….
I assure u people, nobody on this planet can Harm us accept for our own countrymen.. Instead we should make a Drama with the adaptation of Meer Jaffer and Meer Sadiq.. that would be a great watch..
we are every here, just look around as once said by your prime minister, Indians are in every pakistani..;)
Such narrative are counter-productive in alternative ways
the so-called Yankee empire strikes back through propaganda and Islamophobia
Wow seriously people calm down. This is just hollywood fiction, nothing else. If anything it portrays the White House as the aggressor not the other way around. Pakistan has a negative image in the U.S, that much is true. Every country that has ever been viewed negatively in America has some sort of movie or tv show based upon it. Just look at all the movies created depicting imaginary wars against numerous countries! You people are way too sensitive.
Wonder why Indians are so interested in Pakistan's affairs. All they do is to read and comment on each and every Pakistani Newspaper. Are their own websites really not good enough? It gets simply annoying to read their comments when I actually come here to read what our people have to say.
well chk the trailler.2nd and 3rd time wn thay r showing pak map thay removed FATA and KPK…
Why you people are being teased, just be relax it is a movie not a war and controversy. We have to watch this movie, it looks very informative don't be worry. As far as your opinions are concerned, no doubt that the anti-American thinking has been raised owing to the contemporary crisis..
Gone are the days when big time Hollywood action thrillers sport post Cold war crisis with rogue elements of elsewhere USSR trying to nuke World.
Believe it or not Hollywood found damn new story line with Pakistan, we can expect more movies/series coming on similar story-line.
Ali Khan. Agreed
Yes, Pakistanis have been obsessed for long time with the USA to live and prosper there. They are certainly not obsessed to destroy it as Americans have been obsessed with destroying and maligning Pakistan all the time.
If you really look at it, this series is just showing who is the aggressor and most dangerous for the peace of the world, the one with deadliest of weapons or the one poor country who is fighting to survive let alone have the capability to destroy America or any other country for that matter. It is obvious the most dangerous is the one with the deadliest of weapons which has the reach to destroy any country in the world (Iraq and Afghanistan already destroyed).
indians, please troll around in your own websites, otherwise keep quite
Hilarious, ronniq, keep it up.