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Critic Reviews
Mar 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The storytelling here, from a team led by David Kajganich and Soo Hugh, gains strength from its slow burn. The utter desolation and horror of the series’ back half is made more potent by how relatively normal things are for the first few episodes, before reality starts to buck and heave like the ever-shifting ice.
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ColliderMar 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The Terror takes its time, it knows the dark dreariness it’s headed toward and it’s in no hurry to get there. You will know quickly if the series isn’t paced to your liking, but if you can stick with it, The Terror is easily one of the most downright scary shows to hit TV in years.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 19, 2018
Season 1 Review:
This grueling but rewarding 10-part series from Ridley Scott's company is like a Masterpiece version of a classic horror movie: literate and philosophical, yet shocking but terrifically scary. [19 Mar-1 Apr 2018, p.12]
RogerEbert.comAug 12, 2019
Season 2 Review:
One of the many remarkable elements of AMC’s “The Terror: Infamy” is how it balances a history lesson with the parts of it that you would never learn about in school. At its best, it intertwines the two, suggesting that one begets the other, and it holds a mirror up to 2019, forcing us to wonder what will be unleashed by the current horrors in our country.
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IndieWireAug 12, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Borenstein and Woo show a great deal of trust in the core story, the grand production design, and the modern parallels to carry most of “Infamy’s” emotional heft. While each beat of the story may play out as you expect, that inevitability largely makes the action itself more haunting.
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May 8, 2026
Season 3 Review:
We’re hyped for Stevens to be the audience mirror as Pepper tries to manage inside an institution where the walls themselves seem crazy. Devil in Silver is also having a ball bucking standard convention. .... We felt as disoriented as Pepper does, all hopped up on Haloperidol, as we tried to determine what were mind games and what horrible truths are really lurking in New Hyde.
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Aug 20, 2019
Season 2 Review:
In its most successful episode, Chester confronts a Japanese prisoner of war who taunts, threatens, and ultimately bonds with him over their shared love of baseball and their exhaustion with the battlefront. It’s a deeply compelling episode of television and warrants a place for The Terror in any list of the year’s must-watch series. But it has nothing to do with ghosts. I wish The Terror had done a little more work to make its ghosts feel as necessary as its timely history lesson.
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Aug 12, 2019
Season 2 Review:
“The Terror: Infamy” takes great pains to depict the full horror of internment, including the psychological toll it took on detainees. ... “Infamy” is thematically rich beyond that, especially in how it navigates the old ways, the new, and the messy realities in which they collide. The struggle between assimilating and honoring one’s cultural history is painful and knotted for many immigrants, and it’s given room to breathe here.
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Aug 8, 2019
Season 2 Review:
By largely following a single family, “Infamy” also finds a way to make a staggering historical event that can sometimes feel too big to comprehend feel as personal as it truly was. ... Despite having significantly less material to work with than Mio, Mori, Usami, and George Takei find nuanced, deeply affecting ways to portray their characters’ building trauma. ... Kiki Sukezane’s Yuko is brittle, chilling, and eventually, as the show begins to unveil her backstory, heartbreaking.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 1, 2019
Season 2 Review:
With its powerful depiction of once-proud families uprooted and separated, the series is gut wrenching enough, even without the scary stuff. And yet by weaving ancient terrors into is all-too-relevant story of prejudice and fear, this fable feels as fresh and original as it is frightening. [5 - 18 Aug 2019, p.10]
The Daily BeastMar 27, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The Terror is a gripping descent into a deviant heart of darkness, and those with a fondness for true-life enigmas embellished with midnight-movie flourishes will take to its unsettling comingling of the factual and fantastical. Better still, it places a premium not on grisliness but, rather, on the twisted passions and motivations of its fallible protagonists, here embodied by the commanding Hinds and the nuanced Harris.
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Mar 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The Terror, which premieres Monday, turns a macabre slice of history into a beautifully executed, 10-episode tale of the fight for survival. Nerve-wracking suspense, a deceptively gorgeous landscape and the deeply developed characters lend a rich, big-screen quality to The Terror's hour long episodes.
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IndieWireMay 5, 2026
Season 3 Review:
Over six smart, gnarly episodes, the well-captured characters and their supernatural plights prove almost as gripping — and frightening — as the reality they’re laying bare, marking “Devil in Silver” another bright, if not sterling, chapter in “The Terror‘s” makeshift anthology.
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Aug 8, 2019
Season 2 Review:
With its elongated timeline and frequent shifts in locale, Infamy is a somewhat less intense experience than what I’ve seen of the first season with Jared Harris, but the franchise as a whole is proving a potent combination of what scares us in our imaginations and what should scare us in the world outside our windows.
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May 4, 2026
Season 3 Review:
Devil In Silver fares better as a relevant dissection of social issues than it does as a creepy, survivalist drama. The show can’t blend both these aspects together seamlessly. And yet, the evocative performances alone make The Terror‘s third season a hellscape worth checking out.
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Aug 13, 2019
Season 2 Review:
The series doesn’t minimize the internees’ hardships, even if it somewhat underplays them. But it’s also a little strange to see the only major piece of pop culture about Japanese-American incarceration imply that its characters have even scarier things to worry about.
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Aug 12, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Long stretches of this season of The Terror don’t quite work, but you always appreciate the attempt to confront an era that has largely been avoided in American popular culture—one that now comes bubbling up through our collective subconscious like a monster visible beneath layers of ice.
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ColliderAug 12, 2019
Season 2 Review:
It’s a well-crafted, beautifully made season, and while the scares themselves may not measure up to the stunning genre work in Season 1, Infamy firmly establishes The Terror as a worthy anthology rooted in the terrors of the human condition, capable of evolving into as many horrors as the human mind can hold.
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Mar 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The Terror’s biggest problem is that it apparently wants to be a taut, atmospheric chamber piece in which the psychological pressures on a set of stranded men lead them to pursue ever more desperate and unpredictable actions. But there’s too much slackness in the narrative for The Terror’s core dilemmas--or people--to become truly enthralling. Though it depicts extreme conditions, The Terror is a little on the tepid side emotionally.
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Mar 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Harris is especially terrific as a man growing into his own heroism even as forces mortal and not so mortal conspire against him. But as the 10 episodes unspool and the body count mounts, the only dread you may experience watching The Terror is that feeling you are wasting your time.
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RogerEbert.comMay 7, 2026
Season 3 Review:
Despite some ever-timely themes about the inequity and systemic failures of the mental health system in this country, “Devil in Silver” feels flat, likely a factor of being too faithful to its source (LaValle himself gets writer credit, which is often a mistake) or a rushed production that never quite found its voice on set.
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The TelegraphMay 6, 2022
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