The Terror (AMC 2018, Tobias Menzies, Ciaran Hinds)

Inspired by a true story, The Terror centers on the Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, The Terror highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other.

From AMC’s press release, June 2018… AMC today announced that it has renewed its popular and critically acclaimed anthology series, “The Terror” for a second season. The next iteration of “The Terror” anthology will be set during World War II and 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. Season two of “The Terror” anthology is co-created and executive produced by Alexander Woo (“True Blood”) and Max Borenstein (“Kong: Skull Island,” “Godzilla”). Woo is also set to serve as showrunner. The next season of “The Terror” anthology is expected to air on AMC in 2019 with 10 episodes.

production details
USA / AMC -AMC Studios – Emjag Productions – Scott Free Productions – Television 360 / 10×47 minutes / 2018

Alexandra Milchan as Executive Producer
Dan Simmons as Original Author
David Kajganich as Creator and Executive Producer
David W. Zucker as Executive Producer
Guymon Casady as Executive Producer
Ridley Scott as Executive Producer
Scott Lambert as Executive Producer
Soo Hugh as Creator and Executive Producer

cast
Tobias Menzies as Captain James Fitzjames
Paul Ready as Doctor Henry Goodsir
Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier
Ciarán Hinds as Sir John Franklin
Adam Nagaitis as Cornelius Hickey
Nive Nielsen as Lady Silence
Ian Hart as Thomas Blanky
Sian Brooke as Sophia Cracroft

SEASON 1 EPISODE GUIDE
1. Go for Broke | Airdate: 26 March 2018
An accident at sea cripples a Royal Navy expedition 200 miles from finding the Northwest Passage, forcing its captains to make dire choices.

2. Gore | Airdate: 26 March 2018
After a long winter trapped in the ice, scouting parties are sent out in search of open water. One of the teams makes a frightening discovery.

3. The Ladder | Airdate: 2 April 2018
With something now stalking the ships, the captains debate their options, testing their loyalty to one another against their duty to their crews.

4. Punished, as a Boy | Airdate: 9 April 2018
A cunning attack on the ships proves the men are not battling an ordinary bear and that the region’s Inuit culture may hold a key to their survival.

5. First Shot a Winner, Lads | 16 April Airdate: 2018
A strange illness begins to show itself while another more familiar one jeopardizes the expedition’s most valuable resource: its captain’s judgment.

6. A Mercy | Airdate: 23 April 2018-04
With the end of their provisions in sight, officers contemplate a tough, risky strategy while struggling to raise the men’s worsening spirits.

7. Horrible from Supper | Airdate: 30 April 2018
As the men make new attempts to find rescue, a series of shocking events underscores how vulnerable and exposed their situation has become.

8. Terror Camp Clear | Airdate: 7 May 2018-05
Deaths under mysterious circumstances create paranoia among the men, and some of the crew may be considering mutiny.

9. The C, the C, the Open C | Airdate: 14 May 2018
Hope comes in strange forms, and the question of what the men are willing to do to survive begins to be settled in both noble and horrifying ways.

10. We Are Gone | Airdate: 21 May 2018
The expedition’s epic journey reaches its climax as men find themselves in a final confrontation with the Inuit mythology they’ve trespassed into.