The Terror

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Season 2
  • Network: AMC+
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 26, 2018
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
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Critic Reviews

  1. Slate
    Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
    Aug 13, 2019
    60
    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.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Aug 12, 2019
    60
    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.
  3. Collider
    Reviewed by: Haleigh Foutch
    Aug 12, 2019
    60
    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.
  5. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Michael Hogan
    May 6, 2022
    40
    The result is suspenseful and atmospheric but slow-burning to the point of inertia. The story works better as a righteously angry family saga than a fantasy chiller. Worth a look out of historical interest but for far superior drama, seek out the first series.

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#58 Best TV Season of 2019
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#67 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019
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#89 Most Shared TV Season of 2019

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User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 45
  3. Negative: 12 out of 45
  1. Davrosdaleks1
    Dec 1, 2019
    8
    The second season in this series that combines realistic horror with the supernatural continues the trend as it follows a Japanese AmericanThe second season in this series that combines realistic horror with the supernatural continues the trend as it follows a Japanese American family and their neighbors as they are interned during World War II and are threatened by a ghost. I definitely preferred the first season, but this is a good work by itself.

    The show is a sad look at, but an important lesson on, the Japanese American interment camps. It even contains some details I hadn't heard before. The season doesn't shove the awfulness down your throats at once, rather having the show breathe and have the worse parts hit you in occasional gut punches. Between it all is some good drama of people dealing with adversity.

    I felt this was a good view into Japanese culture, especially the paranormal part of it. It's just refreshing for an American supernatural show to use a non-Christian religion as a basis.

    Cast is good across the board. Shingo Usami and Derek Mio work great together as a combative dad and son showing the differences between generations (immigrant and first generation Japanese Americans). Usami is probably the best actor in this. He plays the stoic Japanese father but is able to convey so much with so little.

    Unfortunately, the story does have its share of leaps of logic. It's cardinal sin though is that it simply can't compare to the superb combination of acting, story, and execution that was the first season.

    Overall, I've found this to be rather interesting and recommend this.    … Full Review »
  2. Felindie
    Oct 15, 2019
    5
    Highly disappointment after the great season 1, the whole story was so boring.
  3. Trillcosbey
    Jan 16, 2020
    8
    A very intriguing premise, I really enjoyed the crossover of traditional supernatural elements from cultural settings and how the filmA very intriguing premise, I really enjoyed the crossover of traditional supernatural elements from cultural settings and how the film explored loss and ancestry in a unique way. Very impressive.… Full Review »
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