The Terror - AMC - US Pace (***Spoilers***)

ixoy

Birneybau wrote: »

Season 2 was absolute rubbish. The first is a classic.

I finished it but I wished I hadn't. Unlike the first season, S2's pacing is woeful - it really drags and it's the same thing every episode.

Padraig Mor

Birneybau wrote: »

Season 2 was absolute rubbish. The first is a classic.

Yeah, Season 1 up there with the best TV in the last decade. Season 2 I gave up after 4/5 episodes - has there even been such a drop in quality of a show so quickly?

Glebee

Have not even tried to watch S2 given the bad reviews. S1 is a classic. Its the sense of dread and impending doom that it gives out that makes it so bloody brilliant. A brilliant mixture of setting and cast also help. S1 - 10/10.

E mac

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Yeah, Season 1 up there with the best TV in the last decade. Season 2 I gave up after 4/5 episodes - has there even been such a drop in quality of a show so quickly?

Ahem...I give you True Detective season 2.

Glebee

E mac wrote: »

Ahem...I give you True Detective season 2.

Am I the only one who liked S2 of True Detective?:o

Tony EH

Glebee wrote: »

Am I the only one who liked S2 of True Detective?:o

No.

De Bhál

Just finished it tonight, the first season, that is. Christ it's bleak. Just non stop hardship.

I liked it a lot. Dragged a bit in the middle maybe but overall I couldn't take my eyes off it. Harris is just class in it.

I used to think The Revenant movie was top of the bleak list but this kicks that off the top easily enough.

Galwayguy35

Birneybau wrote: »

Season 2 was absolute rubbish. The first is a classic.

Disappointed to hear that, I'm in the middle of S1 on RTE and really enjoying it.

Skerries

yeah don't bother I think I gave up after 3 or 4 episodes

r93kaey5p2izun

Just finished season 1 this evening. I had never heard of it until RTE bought it, and was sceptical giving it a go as neither historical nor "supernatural" is really my thing. Well, without doubt that was the best television I have watched in the last decade. I have already watched every episode twice just to catch every amazing detail. Absolutely gripping and not at all what I expected in terms of its incredible character focus. Superb performances from several too. What an impact, I actually feel shook after it. I find myself going down rabbit holes of info and discussion about the real expedition now.

For anyone who has read the book - would you recommend it even after watching the show? I always read a book first before seeing it on film, but I did not realise this was a book until too late. I understand there are differences from the series, but do you think it will still be a worthwhile read already knowing the whole premise re

Hickey

etc?

sweetie

Dimitri Bumpy Seaport wrote: »

Just finished season 1 this evening. I had never heard of it until RTE bought it, and was sceptical giving it a go as neither historical nor "supernatural" is really my thing. Well, without doubt that was the best television I have watched in the last decade. I have already watched every episode twice just to catch every amazing detail. Absolutely gripping and not at all what I expected in terms of its incredible character focus. Superb performances from several too. What an impact, I actually feel shook after it. I find myself going down rabbit holes of info and discussion about the real expedition now.

For anyone who has read the book - would you recommend it even after watching the show? I always read a book first before seeing it on film, but I did not realise this was a book until too late. I understand there are differences from the series, but do you think it will still be a worthwhile read already knowing the whole premise re

Hickey

etc?

yes, i really enjoyed it after seeing the series first

Harry Palmr

Starts at 9 pm on BBC 2.

Thelonious Monk

I never watch things twice but this is my favourite thing of the past few years. Watching now and even the intro is amazing and such a great cast.
I gave up on S2 after 2 episodes, it was so bad I couldn't believe it had anything to do with the first series.

Iguarantee

E mac wrote: »

Ahem...I give you True Detective season 2.

Man that season of true detective was so bad!

cozar

Jared Harris’s role in this is very similar to his role in Chernobyl. Excellent actor and loving this.

Thelonious Monk

does anyone know when/if they are showing this in Ireland? Some Irish music stuff on now instead of it.

Galwayguy35

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

does anyone know when/if they are showing this in Ireland? Some Irish music stuff on now instead of it.

S1 you mean is it?

If so its already been aired on RTE2

Thelonious Monk

No it had been on every wednesday at 9pm on BBC1 northern ireland, but looks like it's on tomorrow night instead

cozar

Episode 4 BBC2 tomorrow night. Not on tonight because of Paddy’s day maybe.

Thelonious Monk

I don't get it though, it's on in my house on BBC Northern Ireland but not for my Ma in her house, she had been watching it too. The BBC NI I get from Eir seems to differ sometimes to her one, just little things like this.

The_Dave

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

No it had been on every wednesday at 9pm on BBC1 northern ireland, but looks like it's on tomorrow night instead

There were double episodes on Tuesday nights on RTÉ2, started around mid to late January this year

Need a Username

I love Season 1 - it is fantastic in everything from story and acting to the sets and costumes. And the constant dread is brilliant.

I’m on episode 7 of Infamy - and it has been just so disappointing. Great costumes and sets and some wonderful supporting actors but it isn’t remotely scary (not even a bit creepy), and Chester is just so damn unlikeable - a complete and utter a***hole in every way and not in a way that makes him interesting. He is just an a***hole.

And who had the brilliant idea to end episode 5 that way and not show us or tell what actually happened?

Need a Username

Chester is the worst character on TV in years.

All well and good having a “flawed hero” but they have to have at least one redeeming quality.

Chester has none. Henry pretty much points this all to him. He is unbelievably selfish, ungrateful and a useless. Brings misery on Liz instead of staying away from her, turns on the people who raised him . And even the writers think so because they have Henry, despite the shotgun blast to the stomach and the gaping wound in his back manages to be able to use the sutras on the grave while Chester with a less serious leg injury can’t even keep Yuko from the baby or move without help from Lux (who has just had a baby and been through a traumatic journey of miles).

And the yurei possessions are wildly inconsistent - she was already witnessed speaking Spanish so why was she able to fool anyone as the priest? And why were some of the possessed people able to move normally while others walked with twisted legs?

Very disappointing.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116272969#Comment_116272969

I definitely recommend the book. The overall story is more or less the same, I think they held back a bit due to budgetary reasons.

Prefect_1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116470012#Comment_116470012

you should try the north water, excellent

Agent Coulson

Returning for a 3rd season

The Terror: Devil in Silver

The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets and perhaps even the very devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls. But doing so might prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/the-terror-amc-third-season-1235816623/

Mr Crispy

Surprising, given the reception season 2 had, but if they can get close to the first season it will be worth a watch.