The Last Ship Brings The Red Rust and More Trouble for Tom Chandler in Season 4
The first three seasons of The Last Ship haven’t exactly been a walk in the park – but if the trailer, and the stars’ ominous warnings during San Diego Comic-Con are to be believed, Season 4 is a whole other level of scary.
In case you need a refresher, during the course of the first three seasons of the show, the Navy destroyer USS Nathan James was basically the command center for the discovery and distribution of the cure to the Red Flu. That story-line was wrapped last season in a very satisfactory way, with near-global recovery and our main character, Tom Chandler, retiring to a small fishing village in Greece with his family.
Of course, as soon as The Last Ship Season 4 was announced, we knew that couldn’t last.
The panel featured stars Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin, Bridget Regan, and Executive Producer Steven Kane, and although we can’t exactly say they were forthcoming with information, there was, in general, a lot more to be learned at this panel than most other panels we attended.
Like, for example, the fact that the discovery that the Red Flu has “jumped kingdoms” and now infects the world’s food crops, bringing humanity to the brink of global famine, is certain to bring Tom Chandler back from “retirement.”
We also got a chance to see a Season 4 sneak peek, which you can see below:
EP Steven Kane promised that this year the show would be tapping into what he called “the greatest sea story ever told,” The Odyssey, and that they’ll jump around many locations on a mission to find a seed that can stop the famine affecting the world.
“We go to Greece, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Spain — it’s fun,” he shared.
“The virus is no longer affecting human beings. It jumps back a kingdom to where it comes from to plants…basically to all the food crops that people need to survive.”
We’re not exactly sure that’s fun, but to each its own. We’re also not exactly sure how our main character, Tom Chandler, will get from where he’s at – in a little village in Greece and involved in fight clubs of some sort? – to where he needs to be to actually help, but we can’t wait to find out.
Kane also teased a new baddie, played by Twilight alum Jackson Rathbone. “Our guys come across various bad guys. Jackson Rathbone came to play a really delicious villain for us. He’s kind of like a Greek mafia guy.”
Sounds like quite a guy.
As for what we can expect from Tom Chandler when the show returns, Dane joked: “It’s been a very long hiatus for him. We find him in the Mediterranean, which is where I probably would have gone.”
“Chandler is probably in a better place now. I really think that Greece was good for him, and I wish he had spent more of the season there,” he added.
We don’t. There’s no The Last Ship without Tom Chandler, after all.
Season 4 of The Last Ship will premiere on Sunday, August 20 on TNT.
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz
Lawyer. Writer. Columnist. Geek. Falls in madly in love with fictional characters. Hates the color yellow, misogyny, and people who are late. Can always be found with a book. Watches an absurd amount of TV every week, often, while eating coffee ice cream. She has no regrets. You can check out her blog here: Absurday. Lissete is a senior writer for Tell-Tale TV. Follow @lizziethat