The Terror

I gave up on both The Terror and Bates Motel after one episode because I don't want to watch anything dark and creepy. I have kept my mental health at a very good level even through the pandemic and I know dark and creepy would bring me down mentally. I can cope fine with The Serpent and Line of Duty etc. both of which are quite extreme in their way, but I know my limits.

Yes, it made a change from cops and murders. However, the blood and gore was really a laugh more than horror,. Anyway I am now reading the book. So far good.

According to Google, there are 2 series of 10 episodes each! I'm not sure there's enough going on to sustain that many episodes!

Oh, good point Eloethan.

I think you can take "the beast" at face value or you can see it as symbolic. There are, as others have noted, parallels with Alien and some might have seen "the alien" as symbolic too.

You're right, of course Ug. That would have been a good tale too.

But I quite like the idea of a mythical Inuit beast! Scary though he/she/it is!

Now that REALLY made me laugh SueDonim.

Yes, I get that technically ‘no one knows’ in detail about the deaths from these 2 ships Alegrias but lead poisoning from faulty cans (alluded to last night), starvation, hypothermia, etc would be expected. No need for a mythical Inuit beast.

My neighbour's been bingeing on Bates Motel and keeps telling me to watch it but it's not my bag I'm afraid. I don't mind a good murder mystery but Hitchcock's writings were dark psycho films.

We watched episode three last night. One of our cats was sitting on the back of dh’s chair and just as ‘that’ happened, the cat licked my dh’s head. Poor Dh shot about a mile up into the air!

There are no facts though UG, they have no idea what happened to them. So after they sailed into the ice, that would be the end.....until they found the remains in 2004, I think?

I didn't realise it was going to be so much of a horror movie but I am enjoying it.

10 episodes and that was no. 3.
I think I could have done without the ramping up from ‘a beast’. I’d rather the imagery was less, stuck to factual and ended after say 8 episodes really.

I felt like a wrung out dishcloth after watching last night’s episode! I certainly didn’t expect what happened to have happened. (sorry to be vague didn’t want a spoiler in my post).

I've been watching on catch up so I'm a bit ahead. Was last night "The Ladder"? Now that was scary!

My goodness! Last night!! ?. Not sure I’ll stay the course.

I’m half way through this and finding it excellent.

I won't be watching this, it's too much like a horror film which makes it unrealistic. I much preferred Shackleton (2002) with Kenneth Branagh which was gripping and much more true to life.

It is so well done - such great actors. I have to finally admit, though, that I'm finding it very hard going now - so much disaster and tragedy. I'm nearly at the end now and it will be rather a relief.

I’ll be watching this when my free week of Now tv comes to an end on Monday. I like Ciaran Hinds too and am a big fan of Jared Harris who was wonderful in Chernobyl. Jared Harris has Irish heritage though doesn’t he, his father Richard Harris was Irish.

I binged all 10 episodes! (available on iPlayer). Found it riveting and the acting was brilliant. I didn’t know much about the polar explorers before but I do now thanks to the internet. Would like to find out more.

Thanks for all these great reviews. Think I'll give it a miss as I'm in to light and fluffy escapism at the moment. Helps to combat daily life which is currently somewhat dreary.

We were glad when the sun came up. We could see what was happening. DH read Michael Palin's book on the Erebus some time ago so we were already interested. Great tv. Last episode to watch on iPlayer tonight

I thought it was excellent. Really like Ciaran Hinds. I did think it a bit strange that Ciaran Hinds was playing the English man and Jared Harris the Irish man but they were both great.

That book sounds really interesting.

If you like The Terror I highly recommend Michael Palin’s book ‘Erebus’. This was the lead ship, though I suppose they’ve chosen Terror as the title of the series for obvious reasons!

I've watched the first part so far.Very atmospheric and it's all only going to get worse. I felt so cold by the end of it! DD works at Royal Holloway University where they have Landseer's gory painting of the polar bears eating some of the expedition. "Man proposes, God disposes"