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Now here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write today: The season finale of The Terror: Infamy moved me to tears.

“Government property, in the middle of New Mexico???” You had to know this was coming, even if Chester Nakayama and…

I’ve gone easy on The Terror: Infamy. No really, I have. As you fine A.V. Club readers and commenters have pointed…

“Your people made this mess. Now you gotta live with it.” Admit it: When you first sat down to watch The Terror:…

The people of the Colinas de Oro internment camp have met the enemy, and she is them. Ugh, I feel icky even writing…

Photographer, translator, babysitter, interrogator: In this week’s episode of The Terror: Infamy, Chester Nakayama…

War is hell, particularly when you’re reasonably certain a demon has followed you to the front. Such is the…

We open in the Wild West, where everything is black and white and the cowboys speak Japanese.

“Ma,” says Chester Nakayama to his mother, “this may not be the best time to tell you this, but I’ve been going with…

It begins with a suicide. Cause of death: spectral possession/hair stick through the ear canal.

In 1995, the Emmy nominees for Best Drama were Chicago Hope, ER, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, and The X-Files. In 1996,…

The Terror didn’t end tonight. It died.

“You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men.” Barbara Kruger’s influential work…

The first bloodbath takes place offscreen. By the time the episode begins it’s already over, in fact. Goaded into…

Watching a period piece starring a selection of character actors from Ireland and the United Kingdom, each of them…

“Think of the Carnivale. It will sort us all out. I have no doubt.” Truer words, eh, Dr. Stanley? Whether due to…

Lady Silence isn’t silent anymore. Nor is she screwing around. “You don’t want to live,” the Netsilik Inuit woman…

“All of us in this room know that John was not your first choice to lead this expedition. Nor your second. Nor even…

Many, and perhaps most, prestige television shows traffic in death. Name your top five dramas right now and chances…

You don’t need to get clocked on the head by a hailstone the size of a grapefruit to think that there was something…