The Terror

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Season 1
  • Network: AMC+
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 26, 2018
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 176 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 146 out of 176
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 176
  3. Negative: 18 out of 176
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  1. raporgi
    Apr 6, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its Walking DEAD with ice and polar bears. You know the formula. A group of people get stranded, bicker all the while the environment and things try to eat them.… Expand
  2. ScienceAdvisor
    Apr 10, 2018
    5
    Entirely skippable fare from AMC, billed as a premium series without anything other than cinematography and a few individual performances to pull it out of pure mediocrity.

    Billing this as historical is disingenuous, and calling it a thriller is even worse. The Antarctic has never had an indigenous people (Inuit/Eskimo) living there. No one even travelled there before the 1700s, and    Entirely skippable fare from AMC, billed as a premium series without anything other than cinematography and a few individual performances to pull it out of pure mediocrity.

    Billing this as historical is disingenuous, and calling it a thriller is even worse. The Antarctic has never had an indigenous people (Inuit/Eskimo) living there. No one even travelled there before the 1700s, and even then it was a relatively brief stay due to the inhospitable conditions.

    The story is one of a mysterious animal/spirit/thing that transitions into something far more mundane. Both are quite boring, yet equally adept at slowly killing the crew and our interest. The story gives up the pretension of trying to make sense by the end of episode six, and does little to redeem itself after that point. I can only imagine it was trying to induce the same mental state in the viewer as those suffering on the screen.    … Expand
  3. ozymandias79
    Apr 24, 2018
    6
    The book was weirder. Understandable why they cut most of it, but still, not very faithful. The lack of condensation coming out of the actor's mouths completely pulled me out of the show. It's supposed to be the arctic!
  4. Tiger_X
    Jan 18, 2019
    5
    The Terror should be rated at like 9/10 except it makes gigantic repulsive mistakes.

    Acting: 9/10 Terror: 8/10 Atmosphere: 9/10 Story: 5/10 Ending: 1/10 This show will scare you. Anyone who doubts that I dare to watch it alone at night. Around when madness starts to set in there is a horrible scene involving fire. The entire story tanks on the spot and never fully recovers. I    The Terror should be rated at like 9/10 except it makes gigantic repulsive mistakes.

    Acting: 9/10
    Terror: 8/10
    Atmosphere: 9/10
    Story: 5/10
    Ending: 1/10

    This show will scare you. Anyone who doubts that I dare to watch it alone at night. Around when madness starts to set in there is a horrible scene involving fire. The entire story tanks on the spot and never fully recovers. I cannot think of another show with such a top-shelf start that ends so disappointingly.

    Near the last episodes some truly wild and mind bending things happen. The acting is absolutely convincing. I felt like I was there with the crew. You can't help but wonder, what would I do if I was there? - but all of them are ruined by a streak of unnecessary gore and brutality that spoils the immersion. The ending is both stunning and slap in the face let down.

    Bottom line: Worth watching for the phenomenal acting, sets, effects, and fearful plot. When it starts to go haywire, skip or fast forward scenes for the win.    … Expand

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#45 Best TV Season of 2018
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#29 Most Discussed TV Season of 2018
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#62 Most Shared TV Season of 2018

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. i
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Dec 3, 2021
    80
    There were no jump scares and little gore. Yet the dread was at moments suffocating and bolstered by strong performances from Ciarán Hinds as the doomed Franklin and Jared Harris as his cautious yet ineffective second-in-command, Captain Francis Crozier.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Danette Chavez
    Aug 9, 2019
    75
    The season only sputters in the second half; it doesn’t go off the rails. By then, it’s set up a number of storylines with great potential, which all converge to do more than entertain.
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  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Mar 27, 2018
    80
    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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