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Suburban Senshi Entry #2648 - “[Review] Paisley experiences The Terror Season 1”
#2648 “[Review] Paisley experiences The Terror Season 1”
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LINE chat excerpt starts - 16 April 2026 6:41AM
@Paisley Pythia Peinforte6:42 AM
Ugh, been sick as a dog the last few weeks thanks to some f[BLEEP]king cold Liv tracked in from school
Almost over it
Det. Ema Skye6:42 AM
Feel better :(
@Paisley Pythia Peinforte6:43 AM
On the plus side, I finally got to see something I've wanted to see for ages, a bit of history-based supernatural fiction, The Terror
It's superbly done and it will haunt you in so many ways once its over. The supernatural bits, I'd daresay don't even f[BLEEP]king matter in the grand scheme of it. The humans bring more than enough energy in that regard.
Det. Ema Skye6:45 AM
I don't really go that much for horror, but thanks?
FireFly_96:45 AM
I'll watch it!
@Paisley Pythia Peinforte6:46 AM
And when you're done (and only when you're done) there's an excellent video telling the true history (as much as we know) of the two ships involved (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror )
Det. Ema Skye6:47 AM
Fun names for ships?
@Paisley Pythia Peinforte6:47 AM
Well they were originally warships.
The comments on the history buffs video have some great historical morsels too. It's interesting to see how much of a reach that expedition had historically. Volcanoes were named after the ships, Starvation Bay was named after the furthest known point of the expedition, the Resolute Desk in the American White House is made from the wood of the HMS Resolute which was one of the ships sent out to find the other two... etc.
@SpeedRcrX6:51 AM
Hey if you had to do a Dragonball style review of it, how would you rank it?
@Paisley Pythia Peinforte6:51 AM
Ugh how does that go again... ahh ok
Plot: Superbly written, with tight character arcs, amazing characterisation, an amazing sense of ratcheting tension that grabs you and never lets go. Everyone reacts pretty much as you would expect them to, there are some geniunely beautiful and many heartbreaking scenes that will linger with you for a long time, especially in the last 2 episodes. 2/2 Dragonballs.
Visuals: Lavish with historical detail, the show transports you there. You're never taken out of the environment either on the ships or out on the ice. The supernatural threat could be slightly better realised at points, but it's a minor minor point that never really breaks the suspension, because they smartly leave it only seen in glimpses for a lot of the show. So I'll not dock them for it. It's at the level of a good BBC Historical. 2/2 Dragonballs.
Audio: This is going to sound (no pun intended) counter-intuitive, but this is a series that uses incidental music and scoring very minimally, but when it does use it, it is to great effect. Which I think is a precise, surgical approach that greatly magnifies the impact of the scenes it was used in. 2/2 Dragonballs.
Overall Feeling: I think you know where this is going. This was a pitch-perfect production from start to finish with a stacked cast and stellar performances. Basically, there can be no argument. 1/1 Dragonballs.
