The Terror is a British horror drama anthology television series that premiered on AMC on March 25, 2018. The series is named after Dan Simmons' 2007 best-selling novel, a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic in 1845-1848, which serves as the basis for the series' first season. On June 22, 2018, it was announced that AMC had renewed the series for a ten-episode second season set to premiere in 2019.
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Premise
The series begins with the Royal Navy's polar explorer ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror having recently left Beechey Island, heading south toward King William Island into uncharted territory, seeking the Northwest Passage. The ships are soon stuck, frozen and isolated, and those aboard must survive the harsh weather conditions and each other, while being stalked by an elusive menace.
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Cast
Starring
- Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier
- Tobias Menzies as Commander James Fitzjames
- Paul Ready as Dr. Harry Goodsir
- Adam Nagaitis as Cornelius Hickey
- Ian Hart as Thomas Blanky
- Nive Nielsen as Lady Silence
- Ciarán Hinds as Captain Sir John Franklin
Recurring
Special guest star
- Greta Scacchi as Lady Jane Franklin
Production
Season 1
After the success of the show The Walking Dead, the American cable TV network AMC planned to create a horror TV series based on the novel The Terror. In March 2016, it was confirmed that AMC ordered 10 episodes of the show, with an expected premiere date in 2018.
David Kajganich and Soo Hugh serve as co-showrunners, while Kajganich penned the adaptation. Ridley Scott, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert, David W. Zucker, and Guymon Casady are executive producers. In September 2016, it was announced that Tobias Menzies was cast as a series lead and the showrunners were seeking an Inuit woman, between the ages of 16-30, to play an unspecified 'major character', most likely Lady Silence.
Most of the scenes on the ice were made with CGI.
Season 2
Season two of The Terror is co-created by Max Borenstein and Alexander Woo, who will also be the showrunner. The series will return in 2019 with 10 episodes. It will take place on the west coast of the United States during World War II, and according to the press release, "center on an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific".
Episodes
Distribution
The series premiered on AMC in the United States and Canada on March 25, 2018, and concluded on May 21, 2018. It was released worldwide on Amazon Prime Video in every other country where the service is present (except Canada, UK and some Middle Eastern countries) starting March 26, 2018. Amazon released most of the first season ahead of its broadcast on AMC. In the United Kingdom, The Terror premiered on AMC on April 24, 2018.
Reception
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 93% based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 8.83/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A thriller wrapped in a prestige drama package, The Terror makes for gripping, atmospheric supernatural horror." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 76 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Ratings
Notes
References
External links
- The Terror on IMDb
- The Terror at TV Guide
Source of article : Wikipedia
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