AMC's 'The Terror' is the biggest Emmy snub of the year, with an appalling 0 nominations
"A lavish event series that could be called 'Master and Commander' Meets 'The Thing.' It's not quite as exciting as that pitch makes it sound, but it is a show that builds up steam around the fourth episode."
"As the title suggests, 'The Terror' is interested in fear itself, how it transforms us, how it turns us cruel and savage ... It conjures a piercing dread, both familiar and inconceivable; a portrait of man and nature at their cruelest and coldest."
— Haleigh Foutch, Collider
"'The Terror' can be scary, but it's real achievement is climatological. The freeze is tangible. When you watch it, wear a sweater."
— Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly
"'The Terror' isn't trying to impress its prestigeness upon you by making everything as nasty and extreme as possible. These may be humans under almost unimaginable pressure, but they're still recognizably human."
— Sean T. Collins, The AV Club
"Nerve-racking suspense, a deceptively gorgeous landscape and the deeply developed characters lend a rich, big-screen quality to 'The Terror's' hourlong episodes."
— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
"This grueling but rewarding 10-part series from Ridley Scott's company is like a Masterpiece version of a classic horror movie: literate and philosophical, yet shocking and terrifically scary."
— Matt Roush, TV Insider
"David Kajganich and Soo Hugh's 10-episode nightmare ... is a work of harrowing historical fiction, one in which supernatural menace looms large over the proceedings, and yet is ultimately less threatening — or terrifying — than man himself."
— Nick Schager, Daily Beast
"Two hours, four, even six, sure, but ten? You have to be a masochist to keep coming back. I came back."
— Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture
"There's an impressive confidence to the storytelling that will grab viewers with a taste for sophisticated horror."
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"It's a thriller where everything contains cruel intention — be it the wind, the ice, the water, what have you. The story leans into the superstitious nature of sea-fairing men and ramps up the fear factor with Inuit lore and shamanism."
— Matt Fowler, IGN Movies
"A terrifying story of doomed characters will draw in viewers, but they'll stay for the show's cinematography."
— Chelsea Tatham, Tampa Bay Times
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