Michael Bay’s five-season apocalyptic sci-fi saga, The Last Ship, is set to debut on Netflix on June 22. The series—starring Eric Dane and centering on survivors of a pandemic that kills 80% of the world’s population—ran on TNT from 2014 to 2018 and is current
On June 22, Michael Bay’s long-running apocalyptic world will finally be easy to reach—right on Netflix.
The five-season series is The Last Ship. a story that begins with a catastrophe so total it changes how survival even works. The premise follows survivors of a pandemic that wipes out 80% of the world’s population. with the survivors living aboard a U.S. Navy vessel that escaped the pandemic. Their job doesn’t end at staying alive; the mission is to find a cure.
The Last Ship originally aired on TNT from 2014 to 2018, building an audience over five seasons. It has mostly positive reviews, and it is currently sitting at an 83% score on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator website.
Eric Dane—who stars in the series—gave the show its grounded center. He was also known for playing “McDreamy” on Grey’s Anatomy and Cal Jacobs on HBO’s Euphoria. Dane passed away in February this year after a battle with ALS. He also appeared as a guest on Netflix’s Famous Last Words. an interview that will be aired after his passing.
Viewers now get a clear date to mark: The Last Ship on Netflix from June 22.
And as the platform prepares for Bay’s apocalyptic saga. his broader career continues to orbit major screens and major machines. It was recently announced that Bay will tackle a real-life military mission for his next movie—a companion piece to his 2016 action film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
Bay hasn’t directed a narrative feature film since Ambulance. which underperformed at the box office despite receiving rather positive reviews in 2022. Ambulance starred Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Jake Gyllenhaal. and Eiza González. and it ended its run with $52 million worldwide against a reported budget of $40 million. The Last Ship’s Netflix arrival lands at a moment when Bay has been busy in another role too: as a producer through his Platinum Dunes banner.
Platinum Dunes has been associated with horror franchises including The Purge and A Quiet Place. John Krasinski recently began production on A Quiet Place: Part III. featuring the returning Emily Blunt and Cillian Murphy. alongside franchise newcomers Jack O’Connell and Jason Clarke. Bay also collaborated with Krasinski on Prime Video’s Jack Ryan series, which ran from 2018 to 2023.
For fans who’ve watched Bay’s survival worlds from a distance, June 22 is the day the distance ends. For everyone else—especially those coming to it after Eric Dane’s death—this is more than a release schedule. It’s a late-arriving chance to step back into the commander’s fight to keep humanity together. on a show that began with a world already beyond normal life.
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Wait so it’s on Netflix now? I thought this was already everywhere.
They said Eric Dane dies? Like for real? That’s wild. I’ll probably watch it just because it’s on Netflix June 22.
Okay but isn’t The Last Ship the one where the Navy is basically like… the cure is already on the ship or something? I watched like one episode years ago and it felt like the whole plot was just finding meds and fighting people, idk.
Michael Bay doing an apocalyptic show is kind of expected, but the headline made it sound like it’s finally landing on Netflix like it was lost at sea or whatever. Also 80% of the world dying?? that math seems fake unless it’s like “world” = US or something. RIP Eric Dane though, I saw he was in that Famous Last Words thing too so yeah.