Trailer released for the new season of The Terror, set during World War II

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

The first season of the AMC series The Terror was based on a novel by Dan Simmons and told the story of a doomed journey to the Arctic in the 1840s. The series is now taking the anthology approach for its upcoming second season, moving ahead a hundred years to tell a new story set during World War II.

Called The Terror: Infamy, season 2 is about 

an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific.

The cast includes C. Thomas Howell as Retired Major Hallowell Bowen, "an official with the War Relocation Authority whose presence looms over the Japanese-American characters in the story"; Cristina Rodlo as Luz, "a nursing student who must make some tough decisions between her personal and professional life"; Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama, "a young man trying to understand and fight the malevolent entity responsible for a series of bizarre deaths in his community"; Kiki Sukezane as Yuko, a mysterious woman from Chester's past; Miki Ishikawa as Nakayama family friend Amy; Shingo Usami as Chester's father Henry; Naoko Mori as Chester's mother Asako; and George Takei as Yamato-san, a former fishing captain and community elder.

Co-created by Max Borenstein and Alexander Woo, The Terror: Infamy will consist of ten episodes (the same episode count as the first season) and begins airing on AMC on August 12th.

A trailer for the season has been released online and can be seen below. Judging by the tone and imagery in this trailer, Infamy is going to be very interesting and disturbing.

The Terror is produced by Scott Free, Emjag Productions and Entertainment 360, with Woo, Borenstein, and Simmons executive producing alongside Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert, and Guymon Casady. The first two episodes of The Terror: Infamy were directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka.