Everything you need to know about The Terror: Infamy on AMC

The Terror. Ciaran Hinds and Tobias Menzies (Photo by Aidan Monaghan AMC)

Do I need to have seen season 1 to watch Infamy?

If you haven’t already seen it (and we highly recommend you should), the first season of the AMC anthology series was called The Terror, and the story was based on the true-to-life disappearance of the Franklin expedition as it searched the Arctic Ocean for the Northwest Passage in 1847. It starred Game of Thrones veterans Ciaran Hinds (Mance Rayder), Tobias Menzies (Edmure Tully) and Clive Russell (The Blackfish). Here’s the show synopsis and original trailer:

"A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever."

Based on what we know, The Terror season 2 is continuing with some structures and themes seen in the first season — both are based on a true historical event (the Franklin Expedition vs Japanese Internment) and revolve around a compromised group of people being terrorized by an ancient, murderous supernatural force. So far as we can tell, you don’t need to have seen the first season to enjoy the second.