A third season of AMC's The Terror is on its way
It gets better: Karyn Kusama will direct at least two episodes of The Terror: Devil In Silver
You thought you’d seen the end of The Terror after season two in 2019, but AMC is here to surprise everyone with a renewal. At the 2024 Television Critics Association’s (TCA) winter press tour, the cable network announced it has given the green light for the supernatural drama’s third season.
To refresh your memory: The horror anthology initially premiered in 2017 with a terrific debut season helmed by David Kajganich and Pachinko’s Soo Hugh. Set in the mid-1800s, it told a fictionalized, hella creepy account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s (Ciarán Hinds) lost expedition to the Arctic and co-starred Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, and Nive Nielsen. Season two, dubbed Infamy, arrived a couple of years later and was developed by Alexander Woo and Max Borenstein. It took place in an American-run Japanese internment camp during World War II, and featured Derek Mio, Kiki Sukezane, and George Takei.
Since the sophomore season of this prestige series wasn’t as acclaimed as the first, The Terror was in limbo; that is, until now. AMC confirmed at its TCA panel that the show’s third season is being written by Halt And Catch Fire’s Chris Cantwell along with The Changeling author Victor LaValle. In even better news, Karyn Kusama is a producer and will direct at least two episodes. Based on the show’s description, no one is better equipped to handle it.
Season three is called Devil In Silver. It’s about a working-class man named Pepper who, through bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself at the New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital; an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. He has to navigate the, ahem, terrors there in the form of fellow patients, doctors, and possibly the Devil himself. Cantwell said it takes on questions like “What does victory look like in a world of broken systems and preyed upon people? What kind of hero is needed?”
In this case, the hero is AMC for giving us another round of The Terror. The six-episode season is expected to premiere in 2025.