Line #31 Series/TheTerror


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"This place wants us dead."'']]
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4	->''In 1845, two Royal Navy ships left England in an attempt to finally discover a navigable passage through the Arctic. They were the most technologically advanced ships of their day.''
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6	->''They were last seen by European whalers in Baffin Bay awaiting good conditions to enter the Arctic labyrinth.''
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8	->''Both ships then vanished.''
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10	''The Terror'' is a ten-part TV miniseries by AMC, based on the [[Literature/TheTerror best-selling novel]] by Creator/DanSimmons. It's a fictional account of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition Franklin's lost expedition]], in which 129 officers and men set off in 1845 to find the "Northwest Passage" to the Pacific Ocean through the Canadian Arctic, and were never seen again.
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12	Two ships, the RealLife Royal Navy polar exploration vessels HMS ''Erebus'' and HMS ''Terror'', venture into uncharted territory. The commander of the expedition, Sir John Franklin (Creator/CiaranHinds), is blithely confident that the expedition will make it through the ice and through the Bering Strait to warm water in the Pacific. He is supported by the acting captain of the ''Erebus'', the GloryHound Commander James Fitzjames (Creator/TobiasMenzies), whose [[TheStoryteller self-styled swashbuckling bluster]] belies that he is a NaiveNewcomer to anything of this scale. The captain of the ''Terror'', the far more cynical Capt. Francis Crozier (Creator/JaredHarris), who is also an experienced Arctic explorer, consistently points out the extreme dangers of the Arctic and the recklessness of Franklin's actions, but both Franklin’s stubbornness and Crozier’s own [[TheAlcoholic weakness for the bottle]] and [[KnightInSourArmor abrasive personality]] lead to his warnings falling on deaf ears.
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14	The subsequent ordeal proves Crozier right, as a series of disasters unfold. The ships are trapped in the Arctic ice, and they remain trapped when the ice never thaws in the summer of 1847. Supplies start running low. Worse, much of their food turns out to be contaminated (insufficient preservation and high levels of lead). And still worse than that, a supernatural monster, a gigantic bear with a humanoid face that the local Netsilik natives call the "Tuunbaq", is stalking the crew. Eventually, as the horrors of scurvy and starvation start to loom, conniving caulker’s mate [[FromNobodyToNightmare Cornelius Hickey]] begins a slow mutiny based on relentless, brutal survivalism, and Crozier and Fitzjames are forced to set aside their differences to try to keep their men alive as some begin to turn on each other and others form deep, trusting bonds in the face of certain death.
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16	Creator/RidleyScott was an executive producer.
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18	The series' second season turns the show into a GenreAnthology, namely historical fiction/horror, named ''Series/TheTerrorInfamy''.
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20	A third season has been announced based on Victor [=LaValle‘s=] ''The Devil in Silver'' to air sometime in 2025.
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22	Not to be confused with [[Film/TheTerror the 1963 horror film]] directed by Creator/RogerCorman.
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24	!!This work contains examples of:
25	[[index]]
26	* TheTerror/TropesAToD
27	* TheTerror/TropesEToH
28	* TheTerror/TropesIToP
29	* TheTerror/TropesQToZ
30	[[/index]]
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Context Series / TheTerror