Returning: 3rd Season Streams Spring 2026
Premiere: May 7, 2018
Network: AMC+/Shudder
Starring: Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Derek Mio, George Takei
Series Website: www.amc.com/shows/the-terror
Description: This is a season-long horror anthology series that focuses on a different historical setting each season.
Season 1: Inspired by a true story, The Terror centers on the British Royal Navy’s perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction.
Season 2: Set during World War II, the second season of The Terror centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
Season 3: Pepper is a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with those society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
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Status: After proving to be a hit for AMC in its first season, this show’s ratings dropped notably in its second year. Network execs went silent on the show’s status after that, and the assumption was that it had been cancelled. But a third season was announced in 2025, and that is set to premiere in Spring 2025.
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