‘Lost’ star Matthew Fox returns to TV in Peacock’s ‘Last Light’: review

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streaming, the action-thriller (which Fox also produces) is a dystopian story set in a world where a disruption to the petroleum supply chain sparks a global crisis.Fox, 56, stars as Andy Yeats, an American chemist who lives in London with his wife Elena (Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”), their 8- year-old son Sam (Taylor Fay) — who’s losing his vision — and college-aged climate activist daughter Laura (Alyth Ross), who’s scornful of her dad’s work (since it involves the fossil fuel industry).When the family is about to go to Paris for Sam’s experimental eye surgery, Andy’s work calls him away him to deal with an oil-related emergency in Luzrah (a fictional place in the Middle East).

This angers Elena — who thinks he’s prioritizing work over family — and Laura (because of her principles).As power grids shut down all over Europe and social unrest breaks out, the family scatters to the wind, with Andy in Luzrah, his wife and son in France and his daughter still in England.

Andy is torn, trying to reunite with his family and get to Paris in time to support them for Sam’s surgery, while also dealing with increasingly chaotic events at work — including gunmen chasing him down.Matters become even more complicated when Andy, who has reason to believe that the world’s oil supply could be contaminated for sinister man-made reasons, also has British Intelligence on his tail. “Last Light” is based on a novel by Alex Scarrow and adapted by Patrick Massett (“Friday Night Lights”) and John Zinman (“The Blacklist”).