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

The Terror _ Season 2, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Ed Araquel/AMC

The Horror of the Japanese-American Internment Camps

Executive produced by Ridley Scott (Alien, Bladerunner) and created by Alexander Woo (True Blood) and Max Borenstein, Infamy takes place in the Japanese-American internment camps of the Second World War.  Here’s the official show description from AMC’s The Terror: Infamy website:

"Set during World War II, The Terror: Infamy 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."

The Japanese-American internment camps in the United States were a direct consequence of the anti-Japanese hysteria resulting from the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Between 100,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry (of which 62% were US citizens) were forcibly rounded up (mostly from the Pacific Coast) and incarcerated in concentration camps.

Approximately 80,000 members of the Japanese-American population were Nisei (second-generation born in the USA with U.S. citizenship). The children of the the Nisei were the Sansei (third generation). First generation immigrants (born in Japan) were called the Issei and were not allowed to become US citizens.