Media for The Terror

[formerlyfreedom]

We have a premiere date for Season 2!

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The Terror: Infamy will debut Monday, August 12 at at 9 PM ET/8 PM CT, and will be followed by Season 2 of Lodge 49 at 10 PM ET/ 9 PM CT.

[Fellaway]

On 4/8/2019 at 6:09 PM, saoirse said:

We have a premiere date for Season 2!

Thanks for the info!  I'm sorry the original creative team left, but I'm still very much looking forward to Season 2.  Interesting premise!

[patty1h]

Did I just see Silna in an Amazon commercial?   It showed a woman in her home in regular clothing and another version of her in leather pants and looking disco ready.  (Hope it's okay to use this thread for this question)

[Fellaway]

I have seen that commercial, but I didn't recognize her as Silna.  I shall have to look more closely next time it airs!

And, speaking of, I've been seeing promos for HBO's Chernobyl, starring our very own Jared Harris and Adam Nagaitis.  I believe it premieres May 6.

[formerlyfreedom]

George Takei Offers Some New Details About The Horrifying Second Season Of AMC’s ‘The Terror’
 

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Specifically, the network revealed that The Terror‘s followup season, subtitled Infamy, would focus on the United States’ creation of Japanese internment camps during the Second World War. Takei, whose own family was sent to one of these camps during his childhood, will also serve as a consultant. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, he offered some new details about what horrors Infamy would contain:

“There is the old Japanese literary form called Kaidan, ghost tales, that is fused onto this experience of Japanese-Americans. The people that were imprisoned were highly stressed, and some marriages broke up, some people went crazy, and they overlaid the story of yureis — spirits — and obake — ghosts that possess people.”

So, instead of dealing with terrifying arctic winter and the even more frightening mythical beast that plagued season one, The Terror: Infamy will pit Takei and the rest of the cast against two factions. On the one hand, there are the American soldiers who “knocked on [Takei’s family’s] door” and menaced many of the Japanese Americans they forced into internment. On the other hand, there are traditional Japanese spirits who are vengeful enough to possess a person. So, that sounds nice.

[formerlyfreedom]

‘The Terror: Infamy’ Star George Takei Recalls Japanese Internment Camp Experience – ATX
 

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ATX Festival goers were treated to a screening of the first episode from the second season of AMC’s anthology series, The Terror: Infamy. It is set during World War II and centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.

George Takei, one of the stars of the 10-episode season, who also serves as a consulting producer, shared his personal connection to the project, having been imprisoned as a child in a Japanese-American internment camp.

“I consider this chapter of American history, the imprisonment of Japanese Americans simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor, to be an important chapter of American history and it is my life mission to raise the awareness,” Takei expressed.

[lidarose9]

Don't get it. I thought the Terror was the name of the ship. This just sounds like another American Horror Story.

[OoohMaggie]

15 hours ago, lidarose9 said:

Don't get it. I thought the Terror was the name of the ship. This just sounds like another American Horror Story.

The different seasons are an anthology with the shared theme of terror running through them, as one of the ships involved in S1 was called ‘HMS Terror’ in real life, it provided them with an ideal play on words.

[Fellaway]

Trailer for Season 2 is out:

And an article about the second season:

https://www.tvinsider.com/788290/the-terror-infamy-trailer-season-2-amc-george-takei/

[OoohMaggie]

On ‎6‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 11:28 PM, Fellaway said:

And an article about the second season:

Good old 'Sulu' must have one of the most easily recognisable voices on the planet, nobody sounds quite like him, I can't wait to see if S2 can get anywhere near my enjoyment levels of S1, its a hard ask, and nothing short of a ballsy gamble, especially considering they've used a whole new production team over those used in S1.                                                                                                                        

Let the battle commence!

Edited June 22, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[Fellaway]

On 6/22/2019 at 3:51 PM, OoohMaggie said:

I can't wait to see if S2 can get anywhere near my enjoyment levels of S1, its a hard ask, and nothing short of a ballsy gamble, especially considering they've used a whole new production team over those used in S1.                                  

Yes, I thought Season 1 was so well done that it's disappointing that the creative team is different for Season 2.  (I wonder what the original team is working on now.)  Still, the setting and subject matter is interesting to me.  I'm definitely in for Season 2 and hopeful.  We'll see!

[OoohMaggie]

[OoohMaggie]

Edited July 25, 2019 by OoohMaggie

[Mr. Sparkle]

Coming back? 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/terror-amc-talks-third-season-050236466.html

[paramitch]

In case it's of interest, a few links I pursued after watching the show -- all of these are fascinating.

Some superb reviews and recaps:

AV Club (Sean T. Collins Recaps -- absolutely terrific)

https://www.avclub.com/c/tv-review/the-terror/season-1

Vulture

https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/the-terror-recap-episode-1-premiere.html

The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-terror-amc/559031/

Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/26/17163368/the-terror-review-amc-dan-simmons-jared-harris

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/12/the-terror-review-amc-ships-souls-and-spirits-are-crushed-in-the-arctic

Collider
https://collider.com/the-terror-tv-series-review-amc/

Further real-life historical analysis:

I got really interested in the history behind it, so here are some useful links if anyone else wants to dive in:

History Buffs: The Terror

 

https://www.newsweek.com/terror-true-story-amc-real-history-series-horror-monster-862376

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/franklin-expedition-ship-watson-ice-ghosts/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/second-ship-sir-john-franklins-19th-century-expedition-found-180960437/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sir-john-franklins-doomed-ship-just-turned-arctic-after-170-years-180952658/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/heres-how-amc-producers-worked-inuit-fictionalized-franklin-expedition-show-180968643/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-get-eerie-first-look-inside-arctic-shipwreck-franklin-hms-terror-180973011/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/divers-recover-more-than-350-artifacts-from-hms-erebus-shipwreck-180974251/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/537632/facts-about-the-franklin-expedition-the-terror

 

 

 

[BetterButter]

A third season of AMC's The Terror is on its way

[Fellaway]

The Terror Season 3 "Devil in Silver" Casts Dan Stevens in Lead Role

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Dan Stevens is set to star in “The Terror” Season 3 at AMC, which is based on the Victor LaValle novel “The Devil in Silver.”

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Stevens will play Pepper, described as “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him."

 

[Fellaway]

The Terror Season 3 Rounds Out Cast

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A dozen actors have now joined previously announced lead Dan Stevens in the new season, which is officially titled “The Terror: Devil in Silver.” It is based on the novel “The Devil in Silver” written by Victor LaValle.

The new additions are: Judith Light (“Before,” “Out of My Mind”), CCH Pounder (“Rustin,” “NCIS: New Orleans”), Chinaza Uche (“Silo,” “A Good Person”), Hampton Fluker (“Shades of Blue,” “Instant Family”), b (“WeCrashed,” “You”), Aasif Mandvi (“Evil,” “This Way Up”), John Benjamin Hickey (“The Big C,” “Lilly”), Stephen Root (“Barry,” “Heads of State”), Hayward Leach (“Tom Swift,” “Love Life”), Michael Aronov (“The Americans,” “Operation Finale”), Marin Ireland (“Sneaky Pete,” “Glass Chin”), and Philip Ettinger (“First Reformed,” “I Know This Much Is True”).