This could have been a very good show. Sadly its a bit ruined by beeing so "american". Bad dialog and "superheroes" from murica. probably still going to watch it tho..

When I started watching _The Last Ship_, the second season had aired about four episodes. Of course, I watched from the beginning. In just four days, I was caught up and eagerly awaiting the next episode each week. The show started out **that good,** avoiding the cliché of a weak first season. It came out fighting, just like its heroes. That fighting spirit continued all the way through season two, too. My enthusiasm stayed strong through the break. Trying to find another show like this proved futile, however. I had no choice but to wait for season three to begin, and once it did I watched each third-season episode as soon as possible. _The Last Ship_ has five seasons, however, and they are not all equally great. The visual effects in this show were never _amazing_, I'd say. They mostly stayed out of the way—not award-worthy, but not glaringly fake, serving the purpose and carrying the plot forward with the appropriate battle excitement. Season three, though, brought a subtle dip in quality that morphed into some pretty terrible CGI by seasons four and (especially) five. The effects no longer blended in, but called attention to themselves by _not quite_ fitting into the show's visual world. I was even less amused by the slideshow-like slow-motion effect used in a few fifth-season episodes, wherein normal-speed footage was simply played back at just a frame or two per second. The director(s) might have _chosen_ that style, but I would disagree with that creative choice. However, if the relative lack of shipboard action in the later seasons was any indication, the show's budget was cut pretty dramatically by that point. (Having the U.S. Navy run a destroyer for the film crew certainly wasn't free of cost.) I wouldn't be surprised if the production simply didn't want to invest in a high frame-rate camera for proper slow-mo. If all I had were technical/production gripes, though, I wouldn't be as disappointed as I am in the latter part of _The Last Ship_. Far more than the obvious cuts in spending on shipboard locations and visual effects, the real let-down was in the quality of the scripts. Understanding that _The Last Ship_ was originally based on a novel doesn't really help explain why the show's writing quality declined. The series never really followed the book's plot, merely using its setting as a loose template to create a new narrative. But, where the first two or three seasons felt tightly written and thought-out, the last two seasons in particular felt thrown together and haphazardly constructed. The fact that seasons 4 & 5 were filmed around the same time gives a clue as to how rushed the writing process must have been, and I'd say it really is evident from the final product. In the end, I just wish I could find even one other show like _The Last Ship_'s first 2-3 seasons. Underneath the Michael Bay explosions and chest-pounding American patriotism, the real draw of this series was in the naval strategy and tactics. It was a lot like watching the _Defiant_ fighting in _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_'s Dominion War arc, except the technobabble referred to real systems used on American ships right now instead of sci-fi technology—and of course, the ship was navigating in the ocean instead of space.

One of the best show that I watched till date..I completed watching whole 56 episodes of all 5 seasons within 10 days..it's so engaging,very detailed about navy warship operations..storyline is awesome..action is comparable to biig budget Hollywood movies.