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The Terror: Infamy, the second season of the upcoming Ridley Scott-produced AMC horror anthology series is set during World War II in an internment camp for Japanese Americans. The series premieres locally on Tuesday August 13 on the Sundance TV channel.
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is a dark, and rarely discussed part of American history. This serious injustice, which has been documented through various media over the years, but never on American television, is the backdrop for an entire season of this series.
The series takes a deep dive into the internment of Japanese Americans and the aftermath in Hiroshima, and centres on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community, and a young man’s (played by Derek Mio) journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible – complete with authentically recreated camps in scope and scale as post-WWII.
Featuring a cast and crew with deep-rooted connections to WWII, and a cast composed mostly of actors of Japanese descent, The Terror: Infamy stars Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama; Kiki Sukezane (Lost in Space) as Yuko, a mysterious woman from Chester’s past; Cristina Rodlo (Miss Bala) as Luz, Chester’s secret girlfriend; Shingo Usami (Unbroken) as Henry Nakayama, Chester’s father; Naoko Mori (Everest) as Asako Nakayama, Chester’s mother; Miki Ishikawa (9-1-1) as Amy, a Nakayama family friend; and renowned actor, producer, author and activist George Takei (Star Trek) as Yamato-san, a community elder and former fishing captain. Takei also serves as a consultant.
After the first season of The Terror, AMC solicited pitches for a second historical horror story. Max Borenstein came to the TV network with a pitch for a narrative set within an internment camp. But when he was unavailable to write the pilot or run the show, AMC brought in Alexander Woo, whose TV acclaims include True Blood, Sleeper Cell and the TV movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Woo also serves as showrunner. The new season looks to build on the success of Season 1, which was based on the Dan Simmons novel The Terror, about a real-life failed Arctic expedition in the 1840s.
- The Terror: Infamy premieres on Tuesday 13 August at 9pm on SundanceTV South Africa (DStv channel 108)
