Birth.Movies.Death reports that Friese and bo Odar are making another horror series for Netflix, this one being a period horror story following European migrants on their way to America in 1899. The tale unfolds on a steamship that discovers another ship adrift in the ocean, and, according to Netflix, “what they find on board will turn their passage to the promised land into a horrifying nightmare.”
The setting and timeline evokes AMC’s recent The Terror, but the themes are plucked right from today’s political landscape, where right-wing pundits the world over bloviate about the need to secure borders against the “very bad people” that want to “infiltrate” our way of life. According to a statement from the creators, the show centers around “the question of what unites us and what divides us. And how fear can be a trigger for the latter.”
As tends to often be the case with sensitive, divisive issues, horror is the perfect vessel for which to explore them.
