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The Terror falls somewhere between Master and Commander and John Carpenter’s The Thing, a historical adventure series with a lurking supernatural threat. Based on the novel by Dan Simmons, it’s a reimagining of the infamous Franklin expedition of 1845, when two British Navy ships set out to discover the Northwest Passage.

The expedition was a disaster. In fact, it’s one of the most alarming stories in the history of polar exploration, a genre littered with frostbite, shipwrecks, and people having to eat their dogs. Since The Terror was inspired by historical fact, it’s not a huge spoiler to say that Franklin and his crew went missing.

Lost in miles of bleak ice in northern Canada, the two ships weren’t found until 2014 and 2016. Everything else we know comes from Inuit oral histories and scraps of physical evidence, leaving plenty of room for juicy speculation. The Terror follows the expedition’s journey from heroic venture to nightmarish catastrophe, with a stellar cast and only one significant flaw: The monster isn’t really necessary.

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