The period drama is amazingly inspired by real life events and keeps viewers gripped
Fans have significant praise for the first season in particular(Image: AMC)
A ‘phenomenal’ series that is a cross between a period drama and a gripping horror is labelled by fans as a ‘televisual masterpiece ‘.
Remarkably, the title is also based on a chilling true story. Better yet, it is currently available to stream at no extra cost.
At the time of writing, The Terror, is currently on both ITVX and Channel 5 platforms. The former also boasts its second season, although that tells a completely different story.
A third season was released in the US earlier this year subtitled Devil In Silver. However, this instalment was based on a novel and is yet to become available to UK audiences.
In the meantime, viewers can rediscover the series from the beginning. The Terror presents a historical anthology drama with its first two seasons drawing from real events. These remain fictionalised interpretations however, with the debut series rooted in a 2007 novel.
The series is inspired by a chilling true story(Image: AMC)
Renowned director Ridley Scott acts as executive producer across both seasons. The opening season follows Royal Navy polar expedition vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror as they venture into unexplored waters, determined to locate and verify the legendary Northwest Passage. The ships become imprisoned in ice, forcing the crew to endure brutal conditions and internal tensions whilst being hunted by a mysterious threat.
It is inspired by the real-life 1845 Franklin Expedition, where those two ships did indeed become icebound in the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage. However the show dramatises what kind of horrors they may have come across.
Meanwhile, the second series, titled Infamy, unfolds along America’s western seaboard during the Second World War, exploring Japanese bakemono folklore – a sinister phantom that haunts a Japanese American community from Southern California through to internment camps and Pacific battlefields.
Viewers have showered the series with praise, in particularly its debut series. One devotee declared: “It’s such a masterpiece that I watched it twice, back to back.”
Fans say they were obsessed by the third episode(Image: AMC)
Another added: “I binge-watched season one, couldn’t stop. Amazing performances.”
A fellow fan penned online: “I have watched a lot of horror shows and movies…but nothing makes me feel dread and unease like this one. The pacing is perfect, the atmosphere bleak, the music beautifully haunting, the dialogue is fantastic, and the story is amazing. Best horror show of all time for me.”
Meanwhile, an individual proclaimed: “Quite simply, a televisual masterpiece, mixing true-life tragedy, fictional horror and majestic period thriller. A magnificent accomplishment.”
Someone else commented: “This is a remarkable series, which takes on a journey of suspicion, disaster, tragedy and terror. The first episode didn’t exactly captivate me, but by episode three I was obsessed, and subsequently had to binge watch the whole series.”
The Terror is streaming on ITVX and Channel 5.
