# The Terror (AMC series)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terror-amc-series/811933>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 6, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terror-amc-series/811933 "2018-04-06T17:54:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terror-amc-series/811933/41 "2018-05-24T04:40:41Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Anyone watching this?

As I said in another thread:

> [@AMC show: James Cameron's story of science fiction - anyone watching these??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amc-show-james-camerons-story-of-science-fiction-anyone-watching-these/814158/5):
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> A. No, thanks. The face of Leading Stoker John Torrington (look it up yourself) already haunts my dreams.  
> B. Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ would make a much better miniseries.

Maybe a better series, but not a [better song.](https://youtu.be/TVY8LoM47xI) There is, after all, always a song. 🙂

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> Things start to go badly for them, particularly when a massive polar bear that some of the crew start to suspect has supernatural powers stalks the crews.

What is this, ‘Lost?’ 😉

> [@Jophiel](#):
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> I think it’s supposed to be more of an anthology series like American Horror Story where season two will be a different tale entirely.

So then they can do ‘Endurance’. The makers can woo up Shackleton’s trip to South Georgia Island because nobody appreciates brilliant seamanship anymore, and it beats ‘The Terror’ because… Everybody lives!

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terror-amc-series/811933/42 "2019-03-20T08:54:28Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> I think it’s supposed to be more of an anthology series like American Horror Story where season two will be a different tale entirely.

They are calling it an anthology whose concept is “beginning with an actual historical event and overlaying it with a fictional horror element”, and Season 2 is set during World War 2.

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