Last year, HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country” embraced the eerie potential of the Alaskan wilderness as the backdrop of an absorbing mystery. Drawing on Native folklore, rural isolation and all-consuming Arctic darkness, director Issa López created a sense of place that was just as fundamental to the anthology series’ season as Jodie Foster’s star power.  The Apple TV+ thriller “ The Last Frontier ” takes the same setting in a much goofier direction, if knowingly so. Where “Night Country”

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