Absolutely Fantastic

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Brilliant cinematography. Stellar cast and acting. No stone left unturned in production. The only flipside is the pace of the show. It would be twice as riveting were the tempo a lot higher.

The atmosphere is marvelous, but early in the first episode one of the crewmen says that as soon as the ships get past King William Island they'll be along the American coast. I can understand him not knowing how far it was from King William Island to Alaska, but I cannot forgive the writers for not knowing that America would not buy Alaska from Russia for another 20 years!

This ten-episodes series is an adaptation of Dan Simmons' horror/historical drama, loosely based on an ill-fated 19th century Arctic expedition (and I mean VERY loosely, as in "there is a giant monster in it").The whole package is impeccable, slick and professional, as was to be expected from something produced by Ridley Scott - although one may malignantly add that The Terror is much better than anything horror-related Sir Ridley himself has directed in the last decades.Acting is solid; The Terror has an ensemble cast featuring, among others, Ciaran Hinds, Tobias Menzies and Ian Hart. Jared Harris is arguably the main character, and he is an interesting, unusual lead; neither young nor handsome nor conventionally heroic, his Crozier is a sour, crusty veteran desperately trying to avoid disaster.My biggest gripe is how characterization is somewhat confusing, especially in the first few episodes; I'm the kind of geek who can recite whole family trees from Game of Thrones but I initially had a very hard time keeping track of who is who on the ships.Very well-executed; I particularly liked how the supernatural threat is paralleled by more realistic, mundane ones, like cold, starvation, mutiny and lead poisoning. I've always thought that horror works better when you create a believable, realistic narrative frame for it, rather than "anything goes".7,5/10

This show looks super gorgeous. The atmosphere is amazing.However I think the directing and editing falls very short.We receive a lot of melodramatic, meaningless scenes. We see characters behaving with great strength and then shortly later we see them behaving with incredible weakness.The horrifying scenes with the bear are juxtaposed with long mild sections where we see tough men going soft and batty.It becomes very hard to identify with or even like any of the characters.Also there are are huge temporal gaps in the narrative, sometimes months passes without action and then we telecope in to see a bit of manly melodrama.What are the crew doing for years frozen in the ice? They seem to be always busy and under strict command yet there is absolutely nothing they can be doing for months and months.All these little character/story inconsistencies make for a series that always feels odd and uneasy (in ways that were unintended).Also I"m not sure the CGI monster bear is really up to scratch.