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- AMC's "The Terror" is an amazing new limited series starring some familiar faces from "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men."
- This historical fiction series gives a sci-fi horror twist on real people who went on an expedition to the Arctic and never returned.
- It's one of the best new shows of 2018 so far.
AMC's historical fiction series "The Terror" is the perfect way to satisfy the hole "Game of Thrones" has left in your TV watching schedule. It's one of the best new TV shows of the year so far, and critics are raving about it.
Set in the Canadian Arctic, "The Terror" follows a British expedition stuck in ice, haunted by a horrifying creature. It's terrifying and impeccably made - from the sets to the costumes to the performances. It stars some of your favorite British actors, including some from "Game of Thrones" like Ciarán Hinds (Mance Rayder), Tobias Menzies (Edmund Tully), and Clive Russell (The Blackfish). Jared Harris, who played Lane Pryce on AMC's "Mad Men," also stars.
The limited series, which premiered on AMC March 26, is based on the 2007 Dan Simmons novel of the same name. The novel and the show are fictionalized accounts of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. In 1845, Franklin (Hinds on the show) led the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus on an Arctic expedition to explore the Northwest Passage. After a few men died, both ships got stuck in ice, and no one, of 129, ever returned. There's always been a lot of speculation behind what happened to the lost explorers, and "The Terror" imagines that they were hunted by a supernatural being. In real life, the remains of the ships weren't found until fairly recently: the Terror in 2016, and the Erebus in 2014.
"The Terror," which manages to look horrifying and gorgeous at the same time, was (amazingly) not shot outside, though a majority of the series is set in the open Arctic. Most of what you see is just stunning visual effects.
Here are some of the best things critics have said about "The Terror," that will hopefully get you to stop everything you are doing and watch it: