It has been over four years since the second season of the horror anthology The Terror aired, and AMC has just announced at the TCAs that the show will be returning for a third year. That show first premiered in Spring 2018 and performed well for a basic cable series. It was based on the Dan Simmons novel of the same name and told the story of the book across its first season. AMC executives were impressed with the viewership and decided to bring it back for a second year, turning it into a season-long anthology series. The second season did not perform as well in the ratings, and even though AMC execs said that they were considering ideas for a third year, the show disappeared from the schedule. I counted it as ended after there had been no word on its fate for over a year.
But the network has now decided to bring the show back, and the upcoming six-episode season will be based on the 2013 Victor LaValle novel The Devil in the Silver. Following is the description provided by Deadline:
The Terror: Devil in Silver tells the story of Pepper, 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 the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets and perhaps even the very devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls. But doing so might prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
The cast has not been announced yet, but Karyn Kusama will direct the first two episodes with LaValle and Chris Cantwell writing. It is currently scheduled for a 2025 premiere.
The first season of The Terror follows the Royal Navy polar explorer ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror which get stuck in the Northwest Passage and must deal with a strange menace that threatens the lives of all on the ships. It stars Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Paul Ready, and Harry Goodsir. The second season takes place during World War II in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese Americans as they deal with a supernatural threat from ancient folklore. It stars Derek Mio, Kiki Sukezane, Cristina Rodlo, Shingo Usami, and George Takei.
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