Jason Momoa's 'The Patriot Meets Billions' Series On Netflix Is Still Massively Underrated 9 Years Later

Published Sep 12, 2026, 7:30 PM EDT

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The historical epic of Mel Gibson's The Patriot meets the brutal corporate politics of Billions in Jason Momoa's criminally underrated Netflix series with three seasons. The Patriot and Billions couldn't be further apart from one another. The Patriot is one of the best Revolutionary War movies ever made and decidedly an action thriller. Billions, on the other hand, is an acclaimed corporate drama that trades bullets and blood for stocks and profit margins.

Just about the only thing Billions and The Patriot have in common is their quality. While they belong to very different genres, they're two of the best examples of their respective niches. Very few shows do financial intrigue quite as well as Billions does, and very few movies make Colonial America seem as vibrant and exciting as The Patriot does. Combining them may not seem like a winning strategy, but Jason Momoa has already proven its merit.

Nine years ago, Jason Momoa's Frontier combined the best aspects of The Patriot and Billions into one seriously underrated series. Frontier follows Momoa as Declan Harp, a partially Indigenous Canadian man who goes to war with Lord Benton of the Hudson Bay Company, the world's largest corporation in the late 1700s. While it flew under the radar nine years ago, Frontier is now the perfect show to binge on Netflix for anyone who likes The Patriot or Billions.

Frontier Is One Of The Best Stories Set In Colonial America Since The Patriot

Jason Momoa's Frontier is one of the best stories set during Colonial America since The Patriot, and right alongside The Revenant. While The Patriot is very interested in the American Revolutionary War, Frontier turns its attention northward, to British soldiers and the Hudson Bay Company in Canada. Declan's mission to dismantle the company and avenge his murdered family is also nearly identical to Benjamin Martin's revenge quest in The Patriot.

Frontier and The Patriot also take the same approach to their shared time and setting. Like The Patriot before it, Frontier is packed to the gills with action, violence, and inventive fight scenes. The lack of modern weaponry doesn't slow Declan down at all as he mows through redcoats and braves the untamed wilds of Canada. Both Frontier and The Patriot are pulse-pounding actioners that give Colonial America more energy than it typically gets.

On top of it all, Frontier is one of Jason Momoa's best roles, in much the same way The Patriot is one of Mel Gibson's best performances. Gibson and Momoa were already similar; both are primarily known as action stars and are rarely taken seriously as a result. The Patriot and Frontier, however, allowed them to blend their action skills with more dramatic elements. They both have incredibly vulnerable, emotional, and human moments in their respective projects, and both proved that they're much more than just action stars.

Frontier Also Borrows The Industry-Oriented Story & Characters Of Billions

Though their settings couldn't be more different, Frontier also shares a lot of similarities with Billions. Most notably, Frontier is just as much a story about industry and corporations as Billions is, though it focuses on the fur trapping enterprise of 18th century Canada instead of high finance. There are revolutionaries and revenge missions galore, but Frontier is also very notably about Duncan's efforts to usurp the Hudson Bay Company and the many players who try to fill its void.

The characters of Frontier also bear a resemblance to the cast of Billions. Both shows have massive casts of very well-defined and well-developed characters, all of whom have hidden agendas, complicated allegiances, and the ability to stab one another in the back. Every one of Frontier's power players wants control of the fur trapping industry, and they're all prepared to leverage their unique strengths and advantages to get what they want, no matter the cost.

Most importantly, Frontier's main duo of Declan Harp and Lord Benton have the same cat-and-mouse relationship that Rhoades and Axelrod have in Billions. Both duos consist of one character who has an axe to grind against the other, and though both duos have ostensibly clear moral standings, the ethics involved get complicated very quickly. Billions was built on its fantastic actors playing enemies with tremendous chemistry, and Frontier mimics that perfectly.