Kino doesn't get more kino than this. I love this show so damn much.
>at the edge of the world, a man finally finds strength to shed his fabricated self and humble beginnings
Some high tier kino right there. I'm on episode 8 now, the finale. Spent the last three days watching it all again and it's even better than I remembered.

I rewatched this a few months ago and the second half of the show hit a lot harder on a second watch. I mostly remembered the first half before they left the boat with Franklin still alive. I forgot how powerful some scenes were, like Goodsir killing himself but still telling Crozier about the bottoms of his feet beforehand

>>212936744 (OP)

Cool! I did know they made Lawrence of Arabia into a miniseries.

>>212936834
As I went through the episodes again I also felt things got difficult and desolate way more slowly than my initial impression had me remembering. It's only in episode 7 where they drop the ships and attempt to meet the rescue party or the Inuit. I thought this happened way earlier, and only then was it truly downhill from there.

Episode 8 is not the finale. The UI was hiding to the right two more episodes lmao

>>212936744 (OP)
I agree, one of the greatest shows of all time in my opinion.

What show

>>212938290
My bad: The Terror S01:
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1999486233/
There are two seasons, but only the first season concerns the Franklin Expedition.

>>212936744 (OP)
For me it's when Irving meets the Eskimos and Hickey's attack. The way it's shot, the subtle music, and the transition from hope to horror are all just perfectly executed.

>>212938734
The way Hickey is found over Farr and the song that "plays" when he stabs Irving is unsettling as fuck. Also much more disturbing in the book, because when Irving finds him, he's naked, and Irving sees him "dancing". Irving thinks he succumbed to madness, however when Irving gets close enough for Hickey to deliver his killing blows, it's reveled that much like in the show, he's just trying to keep himself warm so no blood gets on him. During this he's described as kind of evil goblin creature.

>>212936744 (OP)
>Watch series expecting this guy to be in all or most of the episodes
> He dies so quickly.

>>212940154
A lot of people felt like that, especially after Hinds' famous portrayal of Mance Rayder in GOT, but it's not like the show was much diminished in its characterization. Harris, Menzis and some others carried hard, too.

>Mr. Hickey, you'll never believe the good news! They have food for us-ACK!
>STAB STAB STAB STAB!

>>212940496
>AAAAGGHH for Gods sake mister Hickey, you are the ruining our winter excursion

>>212936849
>Lawrence of Arabia
DOn't know what that is, never heard of it. Watch The Terror for true kino though

>>212941711
You'd like Lawrence of Arabia. It's a long movie and mostly desert though.

>>212936744 (OP)
rewatched this so many goddamn times its so good, gave me hope they can still make good TV kino.
>tfw what actually happened to all those men is an even bigger mystery as there was no tunbak to clean up the men

>>212941773
No Tuunbaq, but possibly a bunch of Mr. Hickeys, mutiny and disease. Excluding the true Mr. Hickey, of course, who may otherwise be a very good lad.
Honestly, I feel this is one of those events where the true story is even more terrifying and full of carnage.

>>212941950
I'd like to think maybe at least a handful made it and said fuck it and started a new life in Canada some where's. Probably not entirely uncommon to start a new in the early 1850s. I think they're still identifying remains

>>212942039
Researchers recently (like this year) identified a jawbone through DNA as belonging to Captain Fitzjames which showed evidence of tool cutting and thereby probably cannibalism

>>212942039
Possibly, too, either there or in the US. I think that's something suggested by papers made about the expedition, but I think there could also be a very nefarious reason along with that: they committed crimes, so may as well never return home and risk being liable for it. Crozier choosing not to go back is really not that far fetched at all. He would be blame for the entire thing lmao
Did you know that John Rae discovered a lot of stuff about it? Including the traces of cannibalism, and he did all by himself, literally walking along the cost of King Williams' Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rae_(explorer)
Unfortunately for him, Franklin's widow was mad as hell for him "insulting" her husband's good name and made sure to fuck him up publicly and to anyone who cared. That's why he's a footnote to history, but he was quite the man.

>>212942324
damn didn't know about this guy, thanks

all they had to do was walk

>>212942324
>He would be blame for the entire thing lmao
Why would Crozier be to blame? He tried repeatedly to get the captain to turn back and gave warnings. Then was set to resign and have men walk even. It looked like he chose not to go back because he didn't have anything back there. The woman wouldn't marry him especially after her uncle died. And he'd just be back to drinking himself to death.

>>212942373
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>>212942324
>Upon his return to Britain, Rae made two reports on his findings: one for the public, which omitted any mention of cannibalism, and another for the British Admiralty, which included it. However, the Admiralty mistakenly released the second report to the press, and the reference to cannibalism caused great outcry in Victorian society. Franklin's widow Lady Jane enlisted author Charles Dickens, who wrote a tirade against Rae in his magazine Household Words deriding the report as "the wild tales of a herd of savages", and later attacked Rae and the Inuit further in his 1856 play The Frozen Deep.[10] Arctic explorer Sir George Richardson joined them, stating that cannibalism could not be the action of Englishmen but surely the Inuit themselves. This campaign likely prevented Rae from receiving a knighthood for his efforts. 20th century archaeology efforts in King William Island later confirmed that Franklin Expedition members had resorted to cannibalism.
Look what they did to our boy
I'm glad they picked that actress for the show. She gives major cunty vibes and that's exactly how I understand this bloody hag

>>212942405
if we're talking about the show Crozier, the chick herself said she made a huge fucking mistake not marrying him. That and putting her feet on the snow, she woulda gobbled his cock if he was in her peripherals

>>212942405
>Why would Crozier be to blame?
Because he was lowborn and his account was horrifying. They would pin stuff on him, for sure, and he would only have his word against theirs. I'm not saying he would be executed, but there could definitely be a campaign to clean people's names, much like Rae had it on him

>>212936744 (OP)
Not enough butt fucking. Try North Water for real men stuck in the ocean kino. This is baby shit.

>>212942491
I think she was in the right, in a sense. Her biggest problem with Crozier is that she knew how men like him were, always on their adventures, barely containing the excitement of turning their back on civilization and going back to explore the world. Crozier was a good man, but truly not that much fit for someone who would want him close, at least not until proper retirement. He still got the happy ending in the book, despite all. Silence and two kids are still family, which is what he always wanted.

>>212943479
>least cabin boy addicted boatkino enjoyer
Anon, please, contain yourself and repent.

>>212943549
Is there a reason why the show had Silence leave? Just for extra despair on Crozier?

>>212943603
punishment for failing, she fucked up her responsibility probably as much as crozier felt. maybe they were trying to convey that

>>212943603
I think in the end of the show they are together already. It's just that Crozier is shown hunting, but still haunted by what happened. Am I not remembering correctly? I'm still rewatching (OP here).

>>212936744 (OP)
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>>212938734
yeah this show is HBO tier. I was suprised it wasn't hbo. the one thing i disagreed/hated was Mr. Hickey being obsessed at the end with the other crew. he did all that shit just to still follow them

>>212943443
What the FUCK was his problem?

>>212943864
He truly wanted to get back at Crozier for the 23 lashings. I don't think there's a more spiteful individual than him on this show

>>212943825
she leaves and he stays with the rest of the group IIRC which is different from the book where they all stick together and he even revisits the terror later on alone while silence and the gang wait outside

>>212943935
His character is kind of morbidly hilarious. Stern as fuck, supremely stoic and contained, but filled to the brim with calm desperation. Not only that, but he still had to go out trying to "save" everyone else in his arrogance, always knowing better.

>>212944062
I don't remember that, but I'm on episode 9 yet.
>he even revisits the terror later on alone while silence and the gang wait outside
That's when he burns the ship, right? I read that on tvtropes. The book is much more Lovecraftian than the show. Apparently, there's even something locked on his cabin when he reaches it, locked from the outside, too. Knowing better than trying to open the door, he just sets fire to the entire ship. Kino

>>212944225
been a while since i read the book, i remember one part he's on the ship and there's a dead crewmember in a bunk he passes by, i thought it was in his cabin where he goes to get something, and as his back is turned his mind is basically going into overdrive thinking the dead guy is going to wake up and grab him so he GTFO and forces himself not to turn around

>>212944225
the scene in the show where silence leaves is him waking up in the eskimo camp and her not being there and no one helping him look for her because they all know she is gone for good unless i'm forgetting another part

>>212944293
>Crozier discovers a mummified body lying in his own cabin on HMS Terror, with the hatches firmly battened from the outside as if to prevent it getting out. He pointedly doesn't look back on hearing movement from the bunk when he's retrieving matches from his desk, instead setting fire to the ship.

>Perhaps the biggest example is the ultimate fate of HMS Terror. When Simmons wrote the book, popular belief held that the vessel had most likely been crushed and sunk by the pack ice. At the end of the book, Crozier sets Terror ablaze after returning to the ship to find it abandoned by its skeleton crew and... something inside his cabin. In Real Life, not only was the sunken wreck of Terror found in Terror Bay in 2016 (a full decade after the book was published) but it was in such pristine condition that it can be hypothetically raised and made seaworthy again after restoration. Though in a fun bit of creepiness, the divers found that silt had blocked all access to Crozier's cabin, so who knows what might be waiting in there...

I was talking about these two instances. Man, if the book wasn't a fucking tome, I would sure read it, but almost 800 pages are a hard sell.

>>212944332
I remember that now. Thanks. In my headcanon he still finds her, though. kek
It just makes ironic sense that he finds the family he wanted in such a remote location, after having completely abandoned his prior life and going through such a horrific ordeal. lol

>>212944434
i'm not much of a reader but i did blast through the book despite it being kinda long, maybe try again some day. i found it paced really well to keep me engaged the entire way through

>>212944734
Maybe once I'm done with the Dunc books, yeah.

Are we brothers, Francis?

>>212936744 (OP)
i could 1v1 the polar bear monster

>>212943443
Lots of open arms in this show

>>212945520
Legit shed some tears when right after Mr. Blanky had his conversation
>If you need to ride in a damn boat, I'll put you there myself!

>>212945630
For me it’s Jopson. Nothing but loyal and devoted, abandoned to die, still dragging himself over rocks with his bare hands until the end.

>>212944293
>>212944434
2spooky4me

>>212946265
Too damn kino, if you ask me. If we didn't leave in such a wasteful period of History we would be assembling minds to find more about it, or even rescuing the ship, but instead here we are, tweeting to our heart's content. SAD

>>212945890
fug

I didn't really like this show.
I think maybe I'm just too straight to "get" what's good about it.

>>212946724
>not falling for this maverick's smile
ngmi

>‘The Terror’ Season 3 ‘Devil in Silver’ Casts Dan Stevens in Lead Role
>Dan Stevens is set to star in “The Terror” Season 3 at AMC, which is based on the Victor LaValle novel “The Devil in Silver.”

>Stevens will play Pepper, described as “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.”
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/the-terror-season-3-devil-in-silver-cast-dan-stevens-1236075776/

Open arms, again.

I fucking love attempts at godhood so damn much. There's a strange beauty in the folly of mortals grasping for the divine.

Simply fantastic.

>>212943603
Finished watching, and yeah, that was weird. I don't understand how pairing them fits better here. I'm inclined to agree with you, but in the end they still gave Crozier a family much like the book, so my guess is that it had more to do with Silna. Perhaps they found somewhere that according to tradition once one loses the spirit, they must be banished? And then proceed to respect this. Go figure, I truly don't know what their message was.