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Loved the first season. Was so well acted and the attention to detail was fun to watch. A little slow at parts, but I walked away satisfied with the season. Needed more Ciaran Hinds though.
Season 2 switches it up with a whole new story set in a different time. Still keeps “The Terror” in the title which was the name of the book and eponymously named ship and its doomed voyage.
Anywhere you go, it follows you.
AMC’s Ridley Scott-produced anthology series “The Terror” is returning this year with second season “The Terror: Infamy,” and today brings a new 1-minute long trailer for the season.
Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful second season of the horror-infused anthology, “The Terror: Infamy”, centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American internment camp, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible. It will premiere on AMC Monday, August 12th.
The series stars Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama; Kiki Sukezane (Lost in Space) as Yuko, a mysterious woman from Chester’s past; Cristina Rodlo (Miss Bala) as Luz, Chester’s secret girlfriend; Shingo Usami (Unbroken) as Henry Nakayama, Chester’s father; Naoko Mori (Everest) as Asako Nakayama, Chester’s mother; Miki Ishikawa (9-1-1) as Amy, a Nakayama family friend; and renowned actor, producer, author and activist George Takei (Star Trek) as Yamato-san, a community elder and former fishing captain.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
I caught The Terror a few weeks ago and thought it was one of the best things to come out of TV in awhile. It was fresh, with a period vibe that I enjoyed and really nice blend of fact and fiction. It's always nice for me to see TV go with a premise that hasn't been done to death already
The premise of this season excites me. I did a lot of research work on Japanese Internment and the 442nd RCT in school (basically every project I did for two years was on the topic) so I'm really excited to see how they blend fact and fiction with this one. George Takei was very involved when the history of internment reared up in public consciousness in the 90s, and his involvement in the project is pretty exciting too.
I thought S1 was absolutely beautiful. I'm greatly looking forward to this, it's about a time and place I have to admit I don't know much about, though it's been oft discussed lately.
My sole concern is that, afaik, Soo Hugh won't be involved again - I'd gotten a strong impression she was a factor in why S1 was such a massive improvement on the book in just about every way, and I'd have liked to be sure the same alchemists were at work again. Impossible to resist Takei's involvement though.
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I'd seen The Terror reviewed and it seems to make for a great period drama. To a point however, as they also make a really strange and unnecessary decision as well. Which can be blamed on the book. However for real events in which the crew of two ships slowly die and eventually cannibalize one another, adding in a great big scary monster just seems really stupid.
The name seems to be a bit of a legacy title. Its appropriate for the first series as that was the name of one of the ships. Now it seems like they're trying to reinvent it to be a big more generic.
Regardless, I'm apprehensive of this. The attention to detail purported with the first is apparently spot on. But its like its set a precedent for them to jump the shark in future - and I'd rather have more down to Earth period dramas where things go horrible out of the situation just being terrible, not super natural explanations. I'd thought the whole point of the first season was just that. Not any of the crazy stories talked about at the time - but the story of what really happened - though nobody wanted to believe (from what I recall the British tried to hide the real story; after the Natives years later found the final site of the expedition, the gnawed bones of the crew and personal effects - instead claiming no esteemed British sailors would do such a thing).
Wyrmalla wrote: I'd seen The Terror reviewed and it seems to make for a great period drama. To a point however, as they also make a really strange and unnecessary decision as well. Which can be blamed on the book. However for real events in which the crew of two ships slowly die and eventually cannibalize one another, adding in a great big scary monster just seems really stupid.
The name seems to be a bit of a legacy title. Its appropriate for the first series as that was the name of one of the ships. Now it seems like they're trying to reinvent it to be a big more generic.
Regardless, I'm apprehensive of this. The attention to detail purported with the first is apparently spot on. But its like its set a precedent for them to jump the shark in future - and I'd rather have more down to Earth period dramas where things go horrible out of the situation just being terrible, not super natural explanations. I'd thought the whole point of the first season was just that. Not any of the crazy stories talked about at the time - but the story of what really happened - though nobody wanted to believe (from what I recall the British tried to hide the real story; after the Natives years later found the final site of the expedition, the gnawed bones of the crew and personal effects - instead claiming no esteemed British sailors would do such a thing).
I was skeptical about the supernatural stuff too at first, but by the end I was fully onboard with the use of it, it functions as a kind of metaphor that made a bigger point about the IRL stuff for me. I'm hoping that's how it'll be deployed here too.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
