PhotoThe biggest name attached to “The Terror,” a new series on AMC, is that of the executive producer Ridley Scott. It’s about a dangerous expedition to what might as well be a distant planet (unless you’re an Inuit) — the Canadian Arctic in the 1840s. “The Terror” is based on a best-selling 2007 novel by Dan Simmons, which was in turn based on the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“The Terror” doesn’t just make do with this already fascinating, though admittedly downbeat, story. It adds that monster, a spirit animal that’s part polar bear, part Mack truck, known as the Tuunbaq.

Source: New York Times March 25, 2018 20:26 UTC