The Terror: Infamy - Season 2 Premiere Review

Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor — and, more pertinently, the mass internment of Japanese-Americans in the aftermath — there’s an eerie timeliness to the new season of horror anthology The Terror.

Beginning with a woman’s inexplicable suicide (and a number of supernatural occurrences best left un-spoiled), the story centers on a small Japanese-American community on Terminal Island. The premiere episode is rife with omens and unsettling atmosphere, not to mention family secrets. Though amidst its questions of guilt, repression and cultural (un)belonging, the series also picks its historical moment with uncanny precision.

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