The Terror is back. On Thursday morning, AMC released the first trailer for season two of its critically acclaimed horror anthology series. Subtitled Infamy, this season takes viewers from Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomed excursion to the Arctic to a much more recent, horrific, and timely part of history: the U.S.’s internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The trailer opens with Franklin Roosevelt’s address to Congress about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, before quickly shifting to the indignities and atrocities suffered by Japanese-Americans as U.S. troops forcibly relocate them to concentration camps. Although the minute-long clip focuses on real-life horror, it also gives viewers a glimpse of this season’s supernatural element. Where season one featured Tuunbaq, a spirit wearing the skin of a monstrous polar bear, The Terror: Infamy features bakemono, shape-shifting Japanese spirits.
According to Indiewire, this is the official synopsis: “Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful second season of the horror-infused anthology, ‘The Terror: Infamy,’ centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.”
The Terror: Infamy stars Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama, Naoko Mori as Asako Nakayama, George Takei as Yamato-san, and will premiere August 12.
This could go badly wrong if not done well. Blaming mundane human evil on the supernatural could backfire.
Also not sure why it’s called season 2. The original series was based on a distinct novel named after a historical vessel. Turning that into a generic name and a continuing horror franchise just seems like cashing in.
Guess we’ll see in the execution.
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If it carries across the themes of the first season, then the supernatural element could be caused by man’s mundane evils. And for sure they’re cashing in on it. “Cashing in” is a synonym for “television.” ;-)
Definitely confusing using the name like that.
@1- I’m not sure what the reasoning is, but I believe “The Haunting of Hill House,” is doing the same thing, coming out with a second season based on an entirely different novel, in this case “The Turn of the Screw.”
Okay, when will “they” return the favor by showing how the Japanese treated Americans & Allies during the same time? Just asking. After all in this new “enlightened” world of fanatics trying to not only rewrite history but it seems almost fashionable to destroy it and create a false, misleading narrative to suit their activities. What do you think the Japanese did to Americans when they got ready to attack us… put them up at a Hilton, all expenses paid and free liquor bars??!!
@5. imnby: We’re talking about Japanese-Americans, in other words, American citizens, not Japanese nationals. Do you think there’s a reason there were internment camps for them and not German-Americans, Italian-Americans, or even German and Italian immigrants?
It’s a matter of context. Sure Japanese armies committed atrocities in Asia and they bombed Pearl Harbor. But these American citizens were innocents, not combatants.