Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

pezevenchiul Good cinematography, cast and acting, story telling, soundtrack, etc...almost all the things lacking in big budget modern series/movies. The most astonishing thing is that it does very much with very little, and is relatively true to the historical context (very rare nowadays), the big exceptions are the supernatural inserts along with the naive credibility and reverence given to inuit religion, and the lack of condensation when breathing (you can't really excuse this, but I asume it is on purpose as it may have looked bad or tiring on video, or tough on actors and production costs).I haven't read the book that is based of, and is evident that it was not faithful to it, but the only personal objection I have is with the last minutes, it looked very forced, pushing the "noble savage" myth, as to compensate and please the modern self-hating political ego.

johnwiltshireauthor The Terror by Dan Simmons was a superb read--a combination of Master & Commander (a great sea-going series) and Endurance by Alfred Lansing (about Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic)). I was thrilled to see they'd made a series of The Terror and the trailer looked intriguing. What a disappointment though. Firstly, as it's still on my mind after watching the last few episodes, where the heck did they film this? On Chesil Beach? The last eps on dry land had absolutely no sense of cold whatsoever. Groups of men stumbled around like characters on an away mission from a bad episode of Star Trek. No wind, no cold. I almost heard an ice cream van. Secondly, if you are going to cast a group of men who over the series grow beards and are usually muffled to the nines anyway in the (fake) cold, for God's sake make them distinguishable one from another. I could not tell (often in the dark) who was whom, who got killed. In the end I gave up caring and focused on Crozier, the Captain. At least I could work out who he was. The novel The Terror did not drive a message, other than that some men are flawed and some are incredibly heroic--the kind of heroism that has created Western Civilisation. The series clearly set out to push the message that all white men are essentially weak, frauds or evil and that indigenous cultures are superior. Ack, disappointing. I will say in the series favour, they did not cast a woman as the captain and they did not have any black crew, so they did make an attempt to be historically accurate, but as they were pushing the agenda that all these superb naval officers and men were inherently evil, I suppose they would not want to ruin that message with casting those who cannot ever be portrayed in that manner. If I were a relative of any of these brave men, I'd be suing the producers of this series for defamation of character.

sepetcenk Outstanding actors, based on an incredible real life event, AMC grade production quality, atmospheric aura, cinematic experience, hard to swallow and heart aching story. Looking forward to watch second season.

prhayhurst Once I started watch this, I thought, this is really well thought out, great acting and actors portraying characters of the time. Ok a bit slow, but building. Then, by around the last third of the show, I realised that it has what all shows and films of this day and age suffer from, RAMMING A MESSAGE DOWN OUR THROATS! Of course I carried on watching as I'd invested time watching the previous episodes, but especially the last episode just made me laugh. White British explorers are totally and absolutely evil and hateful, though the Natives are lovely accommodating people, never putting a foot wrong, making the captain question himself and his country and go native, yeah, right! Why can't these film or tv makers just make a realistic show? Ah yes, because it would offend far too many activists!! But I tell you what, if they did, the reviews would be great, because normal people don't get offended by ridiculous things, such as historical events portrayed correctly.