justincward Strangely topical story of a British mission to set up a new global trade system which is doomed but they've come too far to stop.Wow, I thought to start with - for once, you can't see where the set ends and the CGI starts. The costumes, sets and ethnic and historical details may or may not be accurate, but they're certainly convincing. The sense of 'being a witness', at least on the ships Terror and Erebus, is real. Slow, but you know what's coming. Or think you do.One by one, each of the stiff-upper-lipped crew, prime quasi-British luvvies to a man-jack, is going to starve, go mad, or... eh? Have gay sex? Ok, fine, must have happened, it's 2018 not 1845. But hey! Let's have more of the personality breakdowns, the Victorian medical issues, the hopeless bible-thumping, the gay love gone wrong - and oh. The magic giant invisible polar bear. Yes, you read correctly. A giant invisible polar bear that delivers seal meat to the igloo of the Inuit woman whose father the Marines shot, thinking he was the giant polar bear. I'm up to Ep03 and I fear this is going to get worse. I hope there aren't puppets to come.What a waste! There was absolutely NO NEED to supernatural it up; what were the producers smoking? No, really. What were they smoking, because the only explanation for the way this exciting, suspenseful, tragic and mysterious story turns into sort of Alien:1845 is that somebody turned up in the script room with a bag of prime weed. That or they got lead poisoning.There are good bits, but it's like picking weevils out of a mouldy ship's biscuit.Ultimately guilty of a completely self-indulgent failure to entertain and the definition of disappointing.

karan_thorat Brilliant cinematography. Stellar cast and acting. No stone left unturned in production. The only flipside is the pace of the show. It would be twice as riveting were the tempo a lot higher.

johnwiltshireauthor The Terror by Dan Simmons was a superb read--a combination of Master & Commander (a great sea-going series) and Endurance by Alfred Lansing (about Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic)). I was thrilled to see they'd made a series of The Terror and the trailer looked intriguing. What a disappointment though. Firstly, as it's still on my mind after watching the last few episodes, where the heck did they film this? On Chesil Beach? The last eps on dry land had absolutely no sense of cold whatsoever. Groups of men stumbled around like characters on an away mission from a bad episode of Star Trek. No wind, no cold. I almost heard an ice cream van. Secondly, if you are going to cast a group of men who over the series grow beards and are usually muffled to the nines anyway in the (fake) cold, for God's sake make them distinguishable one from another. I could not tell (often in the dark) who was whom, who got killed. In the end I gave up caring and focused on Crozier, the Captain. At least I could work out who he was. The novel The Terror did not drive a message, other than that some men are flawed and some are incredibly heroic--the kind of heroism that has created Western Civilisation. The series clearly set out to push the message that all white men are essentially weak, frauds or evil and that indigenous cultures are superior. Ack, disappointing. I will say in the series favour, they did not cast a woman as the captain and they did not have any black crew, so they did make an attempt to be historically accurate, but as they were pushing the agenda that all these superb naval officers and men were inherently evil, I suppose they would not want to ruin that message with casting those who cannot ever be portrayed in that manner. If I were a relative of any of these brave men, I'd be suing the producers of this series for defamation of character.

tomdelorey The atmosphere is marvelous, but early in the first episode one of the crewmen says that as soon as the ships get past King William Island they'll be along the American coast. I can understand him not knowing how far it was from King William Island to Alaska, but I cannot forgive the writers for not knowing that America would not buy Alaska from Russia for another 20 years!