Dan Stevens is questioning his sanity in the latest season of AMC’s horror anthology.
It’s been a while since we had a season of The Terror, AMC‘s intermittent historical horror anthology series.
The first season, based on Dan Simmons’s 2007 novel of the same name, landed in 2018 and gave us a grim, supernatural take on the real world doomed Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin in the 1840s. A second season, titled The Terror: Infamy, quickly followed in 2019 and told the tale of an internment camp for Japanese-American civilians during World War II being menaced by a shapeshifting demon.
Now, seven years later, comes a third season: The Terror: Devil In Silver, which bucks the trend by dropping the overt historical framing, instead taking its story from the 2013 novel The Devil In Silver by
Victor LaValle.
The Terror Season 3 Teaser
What’s the plot?
As the official synopsis tells us:
Pepper – a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with those society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
The six-episode series is executive produced by living legend Ridley Scott, along withwriters and showrunners Chris Cantwell (Halt And Catch Fire), LaValle (The Changeling) and Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body), who is directing the first two episodes.
Who’s in it?
Dan Stevens is the hapless Pepper, while Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Hayward Leach, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, and Philip Ettinger round out the cast.
When’s it out?
The Terror: Devil In Silver premieres on AMC+ on May 7.
What’s the vibe?
There’s a part of me that kind of wishes they’d stuck with the historical conceit, but I love Victor LaValle’s stuff, so I tell that part of me to shut the hell up.
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