AMC's 'The Terror: Infamy'

Season one thread.

Trailer. Couldn't be any more relevant right now.

Is Takei playing a straight role. If so, I'm offended.

Mumps lady. Also relevant to our time, unfortunately.

I'll give it a watch but part of what made one great was the creepiness of the setting and the isolation of the crew, I'm not sure they can extend that feeling to a Californian internment camp. Not to say they aren't horrifying but it requires a completely different approach. Also it was called "The Terror" because Dan Simmons named his book the season was based on after one of the ships. Rebranding The Terror into "American Horror Story: Season Title" is an... Interesting choice.

Comic-Con trailer.

So what did you think of the first episode? I thought it looked great and they managed to convey that constant sense of unease we've witnessed in the first season, but it feels like they weren't confident enough in the main plot and so went slightly overboard with the supernatural elements.

Warning to TiVo users: Don’t expect your season pass from last year’s show to catch this year’s episodes. Set a new one.

Oh, and premieres today on regular AMC, by the way. I hope I didn't spoil anything with my post.

*it premieres

I'll be more careful with episode discussion going forward.

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I’m on the second episode. Enjoying it so far.

It's about putting non-white people in camps - I call this the feel good show of the year!

I'm on the third and will have to catch up as I think five are out at this point. Every episode is getting a C from the AV Club, after every episode of the first season got an A. It's unfortunate because of the subject matter, but many predicted this would happen after an entirely new creative team came in.

They keep talking about being on some sort of an island in the first two episodes. My knowledge of US geography sucks but... they're not in Hawaiʻi, are they? Seems like they're somewhere around San Francisco before they get interned?

R14 Terminal Island is a real island, largely artificial, located in Los Angeles County, California. In the early 1940s, it was home to nearly 3500 Japanese Americans, who, like those in The Terror: Infamy, were forced out of their homes and sent to internment camps, their neighborhoods razed

r15 Oh, that totally explains it, thanks!

And what an amazing thing; so many houses on that little island.

Oh, and I stumbled on this fascinating piece the other day about Kiyoshi Kuromiya, the AIDS activist who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[quote]Kuromiya was born on May 9, 1943 in one of those places most Americans try to forget existed: the WWII Japanese-American concentration camp at Hart Mountain. He would come out around the age of ten, when he was arrested for having sex with an older boy in a public park. But it was after he landed in college at University of Pennsylvania in 1961 that his life as an activist took off.