>Hold my ethically sourced turmeric spice Frappuccino
I personally can’t wait for another show chock full of diversity baiting and white-man-bad, we simply do not have enough of this kind of media these days.
>I personally can’t wait for another show chock full of diversity baiting and white-man-bad, we simply do not have enough of this kind of media these days.
/thread
>Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?
Prep the Tuunbull
This stupid "head exchange" monster template is so fricking weak. Ancient Greeks had cool monsters. Meanwhile, the monster's the weakest part of the show anyway.
>The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
YES!
Finally a work of fiction that tackles the themes of faith, class and most importantly RACE! About time
the devil in silve - "Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die? "
Jesus christ, why? No way The Terror has any brand recognition worth a shit at this point, not a single person watched season 2 so why would it work now. Should just asked the american horror story people.
I watched season 2, it had a cool monster concept but it was mostly terrible and really one of the weirdest decisions for a show ever made. They hit gold adapting the terror novel and then threw out everything but the concept of"terror" and turn it into some anthology horror show. Very strange decision. They should've gone the Fargo route where at least the core remains connected
The original didn't conform to current year sensibilities. It must be tarnished with additional seasons that are approved by the collective so the original's problematic existence can be diluted.
I read the book 3 years ago and I don't remember anything about it at all, except how fricking long it took. There was something about 2 boats and a mutant bear worshipped by snow people?
Post books that would make a better Terror S3. Hell, they should have gone full cosmic horror and started adapting the stories of Lovecraft and his buddies, e.g At the Mountains of Madness.
They should make version of the Belgica expedition in the 1890's. Trapped in the Antarctic ice, a crew full of people who spoke different languages, starving, suffering from scurvy and mental illness. One of the crew lost his fricking mind and some men were afraid he would murder them in their sleep.
They can fictionalize it even, add some silly "mysterious force" or something that is driving them mad one by one.
Yes, tons of great possibilities for them to choose from. Instead they go with globohomoslopo.
CGI polar bear brought it down hard. It was much more fun watching everybody get nervous about putrid rations, the mysterious disease, etc. Scariest parts for me was the corpse floating in the water, or the strange phantom the kid saw before he died. Everything having to do with the polar bear sucked
The deformed polar bear really was immersion breaking. Not sure how it could have been done right other than making it almost entirely off-screen and the few times seen, have it be a shadow or so obscured by white out blizzard conditions that you're not sure what you're seeing beyond a vague sense of something bear-like.
Yeah there's plenty of potential /misc/arkino/ in the history books they could have used. Shackleton's Antarctic mishap would be interesting because it's later in history (early WWI era) and also because everyone actually survived
I don't know if a book, but Season 3 should be a spin on The Lost Colony of Roanoke, it matches the vibes of the Franklin's Lost Expedition so well >historical period piece >1600s, when everything was grim, grimy and miserable >hundreds of settlers from England moving to the unknown America and dealing with natives >their fate is a total mystery >lots of spooky third-account testimonies and sightings well after the fact >lack of clues, except for "CROATOAN" >barely any details about what happened, enough room to make shit up like The Terror did >it's rumoured that the whole colony either starved to death, got massacred or had to go native to survive
Alternatively, you could do a season about the Donner-Reed Party. Not just the "dozens of settlers get trapped under snow for months" part, their whole travel was a shitfest. >the crook party leader not really knowing where the frick he was actually leading the caravan through >the native attacks >the issues with the supplies, the animals and the carts >all the infighting, deaths and disappearances >they barely make it to the Dorner Pass and then THAT happens >has bittersweet ending to contrast with S1's bleak ending
It is interesting and detailed enough on its own to make a miniseries without even making shit up, even.
I wish they had returned to the boat theme and done a horror version of Moby Dick or the Essex. Or maybe something around Australia? There's plenty of exploration history to make horror shows out of. I'm disappointed and unwell that they can't make anything else as excellent as the first season.
There are plenty of ghost ship mysteries like the 'Mary Celeste' that would give the writers plenty of space to tell whatever boat horror they wanted. Instead we get urbanites circlejerking.
That would be a nice, easy idea to work with that would turn into something good. If they wanted to revisit the arctic idea a spookier version of this would be good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Baychimo
There were plenty of excellent directions they could have gone in and they decided to just be disappointing.
Friend of mine raved about this crap. Watched the first episodes. Ah one of the crewmembers is a gay. Ofcourse he is. And his gayness will hang over this season like the sword of Damocles. Another show stuffed with lgbt crap. But I marched on! Until we got to the hyper intelligent Inuit spiritbeast Polar bear mankiller. And that's when i quit dudebros. Didn't finish it. Couldn't really. I just want regular old ship kino. No gays, no murderous polar bears just plain old boats.
CGI polar bear brought it down hard. It was much more fun watching everybody get nervous about putrid rations, the mysterious disease, etc. Scariest parts for me was the corpse floating in the water, or the strange phantom the kid saw before he died. Everything having to do with the polar bear sucked
CGI polar bear brought it down hard. It was much more fun watching everybody get nervous about putrid rations, the mysterious disease, etc. Scariest parts for me was the corpse floating in the water, or the strange phantom the kid saw before he died. Everything having to do with the polar bear sucked
Yes, tons of great possibilities for them to choose from. Instead they go with globohomoslopo.
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The deformed polar bear really was immersion breaking. Not sure how it could have been done right other than making it almost entirely off-screen and the few times seen, have it be a shadow or so obscured by white out blizzard conditions that you're not sure what you're seeing beyond a vague sense of something bear-like.
Literally all you have to do is just not show the bear/monster/whatever and leave it open-ended whether it's actually supernatural or just some mangey ass beast of a bear and you instantly fix the handful of problems with it.
I dunno if it was autism on my part but I couldn't get passed how warm it looked. Like the whole cast was dressed just in peacoats and maybe a hat in the TV show. In the book they were wrapped up like Michelin Men during the winter scenes, and had to keep blinking to keep the water on their eyes from freezing
>New York Times review >Victor LaValle’s publishers have made the curious decision to market his third novel, “The Devil in Silver,” as a horror thriller. But it doesn’t really fit either part of that label; it isn’t much interested in making your pulse race, and it won’t scare the pants off anyone. It’s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.
Sounds terrible
The Terror should have been one season and no supernatural nonsense. Maddness/hallucinations from the lead poisoning; okay. But a magic polar bear is embarrassing.
I didn't even watch five minutes of S2. I just knew.
My idea: they bring back all the original actors but it's in a modern setting in an arctic research station. They go mad from lead in defective Stanley cups and global warming melts the permafrost so a monster defrosts, if they need more supernatural bullshit.
The new one has nothing to do with ships anyway. See
>Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?
Prep the Tuunbull
>New York Times review >Victor LaValle’s publishers have made the curious decision to market his third novel, “The Devil in Silver,” as a horror thriller. But it doesn’t really fit either part of that label; it isn’t much interested in making your pulse race, and it won’t scare the pants off anyone. It’s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.
Sounds terrible
Season 3 of The Terror should put a paranormal spin on the Byford Dolphin incident. Some Lovecraftian monster drives divers to madness and death. Could be kino.
Season 3 could have been James Cameron diving deep and getting infested with the spirit of blue aliens whose space craft crashed on Earth long ago and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Cameron struggles the rest of his life to makes sense of the blue cat people that inhabit all of his thoughts, making many movies about them to get the images out of his head.
they're not, there'd be no way the first season is completely self contained and "resolved" but AHS was also doing numbers so AMC probably wanted to take their shot
>if you loved season 1, you’ll get none of it in season 2
they literally said that wtf, the culture of hating on fans is one of the worst things to come out of the modern era
>take popular thing that had a decent/good first season >hire people who despise the fan base to make the 2nd season >hollow out the original show completely >fill the shell with globohomosexual ideology >market the new season with statements about how it's going to 'subvert' or 'challenge' the expectations of the audience >on social media, people involved in the production will openly show contempt for the key demographic of the 1st season >show gets mega-shilled on Cinemaphile
I've observed this cycle too many times now.
They're at least somewhat aware that they can't attract an audience purely based on their own creative output so they always have to wait for someone else to make something appealing and then latch on to it and try to overwrite it like a virus.
Season 2 wasn't very scary, but I liked the character development up until about half way through. Then it got increasingly stupid till I couldn't watch it anymore. Season 1 dropped off in the last few episodes too, but not that quickly
Just fricking let it rest in peace, we already had a true season 2 in The North Water.
If they truly had faith in their adaptation of The Devil In Silver they'd make it its own thing. The Terror was a good book, and then they made a good show out of it.
Turning the adaptation into a THIRD season shows how they learned nothing from the disappointment that was Season 2. Even judging by how Season 2 felt I think they learned nothing at all from what made The Terror stand out; its brand of horror was about the fear of the unknown, about the darkness of the human mind at its limits, about the dread and misery of failing to live in a world not meant for you. The show even fricking spells it out to you throughout the episodes >Franklin secretly shitting his pants at the idea of getting stuck in the ice and not knowing if they'll make it through another winter >Mr. Blanky's account of his previous exploration, all of Hickey's bullshit >Crozier being a miserable drunk in land but also the only one to adapt to the Artic lifestyle while the others die miserable deaths from exposure and starvation
Season 2 was: >spooky ghosts of people who didn't want to move on >zombies just because >whodunit >muh not!Nazi concentration camps
Same shit we've seen in modern horror and WWII related movies before, and by the point the epidemic subplot shows up it feels like they only did it to try to imitate the grim feeling of "oh shit everyone's slowly dying" that the later Season 1 episodes had.
If Season 3 can top off the haunting feeling of the scene where Crozier walks through the camps in the final episode I'll eat my fricking boxers though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts6N4T1gAdI
I dunno if it was autism on my part but I couldn't get passed how warm it looked. Like the whole cast was dressed just in peacoats and maybe a hat in the TV show. In the book they were wrapped up like Michelin Men during the winter scenes, and had to keep blinking to keep the water on their eyes from freezing
The show takes place over several seasons, the summer seasons, while still extremely cold, mean they can wear peacoats out (which were insulated with fur and/or wool, so they look far warmer than they are). In the winter parts of the show it does look cold and they have to be super covered up and they even mention several times that men can't go out at all.
I don't know if a book, but Season 3 should be a spin on The Lost Colony of Roanoke, it matches the vibes of the Franklin's Lost Expedition so well >historical period piece >1600s, when everything was grim, grimy and miserable >hundreds of settlers from England moving to the unknown America and dealing with natives >their fate is a total mystery >lots of spooky third-account testimonies and sightings well after the fact >lack of clues, except for "CROATOAN" >barely any details about what happened, enough room to make shit up like The Terror did >it's rumoured that the whole colony either starved to death, got massacred or had to go native to survive
Alternatively, you could do a season about the Donner-Reed Party. Not just the "dozens of settlers get trapped under snow for months" part, their whole travel was a shitfest. >the crook party leader not really knowing where the frick he was actually leading the caravan through >the native attacks >the issues with the supplies, the animals and the carts >all the infighting, deaths and disappearances >they barely make it to the Dorner Pass and then THAT happens >has bittersweet ending to contrast with S1's bleak ending
It is interesting and detailed enough on its own to make a miniseries without even making shit up, even.
Roanoke is a good idea, a lot of people like it and it does technically involve boats. Also, I think the Donner party got fricked by the same extreme winter that fricked over Franklin's expedition so it's pottery too.
Season 2 isn't scary because the supernatural element to it isn't scary. There's no horror element except to a few select characters tied to the story, and everyone else in the show goes about their day as if nothing is wrong. They could have leaned into the fact that they're trapped in an internment camp, or they could have leaned into the idea that the actual horror was of the treatment of the Japanese in said internment camps, but nothing of the sort happens - very infrequently are characters actually scared for their lives and there's a number of characters who are killed just for shock value.
It was astoundingly amateurish writing that didn't understand what dread or hopelessness feels like, the kind of writing that can only be done by coddled minorities trying to capitalize on the pain their previous generations felt.
Well I'd say it can't be worse than season 2 but you just never know anymore.
>Hold my ethically sourced turmeric spice Frappuccino
I personally can’t wait for another show chock full of diversity baiting and white-man-bad, we simply do not have enough of this kind of media these days.
>I personally can’t wait for another show chock full of diversity baiting and white-man-bad, we simply do not have enough of this kind of media these days.
/thread
>Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?
Prep the Tuunbull
>it's not more boat and/or polar kino
fricking DROPPED
This stupid "head exchange" monster template is so fricking weak. Ancient Greeks had cool monsters. Meanwhile, the monster's the weakest part of the show anyway.
>This stupid "head exchange" monster template is so fricking weak. Ancient Greeks had cool monsters.
Was it good?
So it’s Bubba Ho-Tep with a slightly different coat of paint.
>THEY DYED ME THIS COLOR
Won't be as kino as Bubba Ho Tep, I guarantee that
this sounds like enough story for a short film. at best. good luck filling ten episodes.
>directed by a woman
pass
kino director
>female
>kino
Pick One.
>The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
YES!
Finally a work of fiction that tackles the themes of faith, class and most importantly RACE! About time
OP IS A homosexual
the devil in silve - "Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die? "
NO BOAT KINO
Jesus christ, why? No way The Terror has any brand recognition worth a shit at this point, not a single person watched season 2 so why would it work now. Should just asked the american horror story people.
I watched season 2, it had a cool monster concept but it was mostly terrible and really one of the weirdest decisions for a show ever made. They hit gold adapting the terror novel and then threw out everything but the concept of"terror" and turn it into some anthology horror show. Very strange decision. They should've gone the Fargo route where at least the core remains connected
Pass
Pass.
Well a single mother is a terror to the world around here, so at least The Terror is a fitting name still.
No, she captains a daycare center called The Terror.
will the terror be whitey again?
There was a second season?
If it was good then why would they need to stick 'The Terror©' as the title?
The original didn't conform to current year sensibilities. It must be tarnished with additional seasons that are approved by the collective so the original's problematic existence can be diluted.
How many POC were in S1?
Several
Also I meant to add the only survivor of the expedition is the Irishman, another non-white.
They were all natives
But the original was about how the British empire was bad and the smart Inuit woman was right and fixed things.
take your meds
I read the book 3 years ago and I don't remember anything about it at all, except how fricking long it took. There was something about 2 boats and a mutant bear worshipped by snow people?
That's season 1. Season 2 and 3 have nothing to do with the book and season 2 was dogshit.
Post books that would make a better Terror S3. Hell, they should have gone full cosmic horror and started adapting the stories of Lovecraft and his buddies, e.g At the Mountains of Madness.
Forgot image.
In an alternate universe we'd be mocking it for being the cold show, it would be kino though.
Various historical horror stories in polar settings would be an excellent show.
They should make version of the Belgica expedition in the 1890's. Trapped in the Antarctic ice, a crew full of people who spoke different languages, starving, suffering from scurvy and mental illness. One of the crew lost his fricking mind and some men were afraid he would murder them in their sleep.
They can fictionalize it even, add some silly "mysterious force" or something that is driving them mad one by one.
Yes, tons of great possibilities for them to choose from. Instead they go with globohomoslopo.
The deformed polar bear really was immersion breaking. Not sure how it could have been done right other than making it almost entirely off-screen and the few times seen, have it be a shadow or so obscured by white out blizzard conditions that you're not sure what you're seeing beyond a vague sense of something bear-like.
Yeah there's plenty of potential /misc/arkino/ in the history books they could have used. Shackleton's Antarctic mishap would be interesting because it's later in history (early WWI era) and also because everyone actually survived
umm sweaty lovecraft was a racist so we arent allowed to like his stuff anymore. i mean have you heard what he named his cat??
The ending wasn't great but it was boat kino for most of it.
that would be so kino, but not going to happen
or if it happens they are going to be pushing Black folk and women
I don't know if a book, but Season 3 should be a spin on The Lost Colony of Roanoke, it matches the vibes of the Franklin's Lost Expedition so well
>historical period piece
>1600s, when everything was grim, grimy and miserable
>hundreds of settlers from England moving to the unknown America and dealing with natives
>their fate is a total mystery
>lots of spooky third-account testimonies and sightings well after the fact
>lack of clues, except for "CROATOAN"
>barely any details about what happened, enough room to make shit up like The Terror did
>it's rumoured that the whole colony either starved to death, got massacred or had to go native to survive
Alternatively, you could do a season about the Donner-Reed Party. Not just the "dozens of settlers get trapped under snow for months" part, their whole travel was a shitfest.
>the crook party leader not really knowing where the frick he was actually leading the caravan through
>the native attacks
>the issues with the supplies, the animals and the carts
>all the infighting, deaths and disappearances
>they barely make it to the Dorner Pass and then THAT happens
>has bittersweet ending to contrast with S1's bleak ending
It is interesting and detailed enough on its own to make a miniseries without even making shit up, even.
I wish they had returned to the boat theme and done a horror version of Moby Dick or the Essex. Or maybe something around Australia? There's plenty of exploration history to make horror shows out of. I'm disappointed and unwell that they can't make anything else as excellent as the first season.
There are plenty of ghost ship mysteries like the 'Mary Celeste' that would give the writers plenty of space to tell whatever boat horror they wanted. Instead we get urbanites circlejerking.
That would be a nice, easy idea to work with that would turn into something good. If they wanted to revisit the arctic idea a spookier version of this would be good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Baychimo
There were plenty of excellent directions they could have gone in and they decided to just be disappointing.
BoatKino has too much whites and since that they can’t all be evil it can’t work anymore.
>The Terror
>not featured: The Terror
Friend of mine raved about this crap. Watched the first episodes. Ah one of the crewmembers is a gay. Ofcourse he is. And his gayness will hang over this season like the sword of Damocles. Another show stuffed with lgbt crap. But I marched on! Until we got to the hyper intelligent Inuit spiritbeast Polar bear mankiller. And that's when i quit dudebros. Didn't finish it. Couldn't really. I just want regular old ship kino. No gays, no murderous polar bears just plain old boats.
It was alright until the cgi polar bear monster. Tonally incongruent with the rest of the season.
North Water is the superior show.
midwit opinion
>north water is the superior show
this confirms it
CGI polar bear brought it down hard. It was much more fun watching everybody get nervous about putrid rations, the mysterious disease, etc. Scariest parts for me was the corpse floating in the water, or the strange phantom the kid saw before he died. Everything having to do with the polar bear sucked
Literally all you have to do is just not show the bear/monster/whatever and leave it open-ended whether it's actually supernatural or just some mangey ass beast of a bear and you instantly fix the handful of problems with it.
>And his gayness will hang over this season like the sword of Damocles.
Quite literally, I'm surprised the show wasn't accused of homophobia.
wow so based!
You're a fricking moron, go watch a documentary then
sorry your autism made it too hard for you to enjoy, thanks for letting us know
I dunno if it was autism on my part but I couldn't get passed how warm it looked. Like the whole cast was dressed just in peacoats and maybe a hat in the TV show. In the book they were wrapped up like Michelin Men during the winter scenes, and had to keep blinking to keep the water on their eyes from freezing
the homosexual was a twisted conniving piece of shit
>New York Times review
>Victor LaValle’s publishers have made the curious decision to market his third novel, “The Devil in Silver,” as a horror thriller. But it doesn’t really fit either part of that label; it isn’t much interested in making your pulse race, and it won’t scare the pants off anyone. It’s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.
Sounds terrible
The Terror should have been one season and no supernatural nonsense. Maddness/hallucinations from the lead poisoning; okay. But a magic polar bear is embarrassing.
I didn't even watch five minutes of S2. I just knew.
t. didnt read the book
>no supernatural nonsense
that guy probably thinks fiction is a waste of time if he reads at all
Fiction is for children. Grow up.
I miss shooting my bow so much
My idea: they bring back all the original actors but it's in a modern setting in an arctic research station. They go mad from lead in defective Stanley cups and global warming melts the permafrost so a monster defrosts, if they need more supernatural bullshit.
Congratulations, you're now hired as the lead writer for 'Fortitude' season four.
>MISTER HICKEEEEY
>I'LL BE BAAAAAAAAACK!
Nope, the trust has been broken. We know the producers are going to put a thin patina of boat kino over a mountain of woke shit.
>thin patina of boat kino
There aren't even any boats though.
What the hell is this? I've never seen it.
Promo image. Not an actual still
I never saw it, I'm glad they didn't use it as much as the better ones, it looks silly.
true detective season 4 on hearing these news
Should have adapted William Hope Hodgson
NO
I don't even want to imagine how they'd frick up
Women directing shit they have zero understanding about. Like imagine if they put a woman director in charge of Master & Commander?
The new one has nothing to do with ships anyway. See
How are they going to make it white man bad this time?
third?.. I had no fricking idea that a second existed
Didn't watch S02, what's so bad about it?
I could use more horror series
MR HICKEY PLEASE REMOVE YOUR wiener FROM MY ASS!
Oh man, the book suuuuuuuuuuuucked.
No it isn't
The real Terror was the friends we made along the way.
Season 3 of The Terror should put a paranormal spin on the Byford Dolphin incident. Some Lovecraftian monster drives divers to madness and death. Could be kino.
It would be spoopy, but it's too fricked up.
>Byford Dolphin incident
Just went to go check to see what that even is. Fricking hell
Oh, yeah. It was a BIG frick-up.
Think they spent all the money on the boats and didn't have much left in the budget for CGI.
Season 3 could have been James Cameron diving deep and getting infested with the spirit of blue aliens whose space craft crashed on Earth long ago and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Cameron struggles the rest of his life to makes sense of the blue cat people that inhabit all of his thoughts, making many movies about them to get the images out of his head.
>8 hour mini-series of James Cameron furiously edging inside a cramped submersible with Michael Biehn narrating his increasingly perverse thoughts.
I didn't even know it was an anthology series? Does that mean S1 and S2 aren't even related?
they're not, there'd be no way the first season is completely self contained and "resolved" but AHS was also doing numbers so AMC probably wanted to take their shot
>if you loved season 1, you’ll get none of it in season 2
they literally said that wtf, the culture of hating on fans is one of the worst things to come out of the modern era
The Edmund Fitzgerald was sunk by ghosts.
>take popular thing that had a decent/good first season
>hire people who despise the fan base to make the 2nd season
>hollow out the original show completely
>fill the shell with globohomosexual ideology
>market the new season with statements about how it's going to 'subvert' or 'challenge' the expectations of the audience
>on social media, people involved in the production will openly show contempt for the key demographic of the 1st season
>show gets mega-shilled on Cinemaphile
I've observed this cycle too many times now.
They're at least somewhat aware that they can't attract an audience purely based on their own creative output so they always have to wait for someone else to make something appealing and then latch on to it and try to overwrite it like a virus.
Season 2 wasn't very scary, but I liked the character development up until about half way through. Then it got increasingly stupid till I couldn't watch it anymore. Season 1 dropped off in the last few episodes too, but not that quickly
Kusama and Cantwell who both worked on Halt and Catch Fire? Kino confirmed.
>directed by a woman
how about no
Just fricking let it rest in peace, we already had a true season 2 in The North Water.
If they truly had faith in their adaptation of The Devil In Silver they'd make it its own thing. The Terror was a good book, and then they made a good show out of it.
Turning the adaptation into a THIRD season shows how they learned nothing from the disappointment that was Season 2. Even judging by how Season 2 felt I think they learned nothing at all from what made The Terror stand out; its brand of horror was about the fear of the unknown, about the darkness of the human mind at its limits, about the dread and misery of failing to live in a world not meant for you. The show even fricking spells it out to you throughout the episodes
>Franklin secretly shitting his pants at the idea of getting stuck in the ice and not knowing if they'll make it through another winter
>Mr. Blanky's account of his previous exploration, all of Hickey's bullshit
>Crozier being a miserable drunk in land but also the only one to adapt to the Artic lifestyle while the others die miserable deaths from exposure and starvation
Season 2 was:
>spooky ghosts of people who didn't want to move on
>zombies just because
>whodunit
>muh not!Nazi concentration camps
Same shit we've seen in modern horror and WWII related movies before, and by the point the epidemic subplot shows up it feels like they only did it to try to imitate the grim feeling of "oh shit everyone's slowly dying" that the later Season 1 episodes had.
If Season 3 can top off the haunting feeling of the scene where Crozier walks through the camps in the final episode I'll eat my fricking boxers though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts6N4T1gAdI
That was an excellent scene.
The show takes place over several seasons, the summer seasons, while still extremely cold, mean they can wear peacoats out (which were insulated with fur and/or wool, so they look far warmer than they are). In the winter parts of the show it does look cold and they have to be super covered up and they even mention several times that men can't go out at all.
Roanoke is a good idea, a lot of people like it and it does technically involve boats. Also, I think the Donner party got fricked by the same extreme winter that fricked over Franklin's expedition so it's pottery too.
Season 2 isn't scary because the supernatural element to it isn't scary. There's no horror element except to a few select characters tied to the story, and everyone else in the show goes about their day as if nothing is wrong. They could have leaned into the fact that they're trapped in an internment camp, or they could have leaned into the idea that the actual horror was of the treatment of the Japanese in said internment camps, but nothing of the sort happens - very infrequently are characters actually scared for their lives and there's a number of characters who are killed just for shock value.
It was astoundingly amateurish writing that didn't understand what dread or hopelessness feels like, the kind of writing that can only be done by coddled minorities trying to capitalize on the pain their previous generations felt.