We Are Gone

In the final showdown Mister Hickey has Captain Crozier brought to him, he hatches a plan to take on the Tuunbaq.

It's been a tremendous series, and the finale is a worthy final episode. It's intriguing, gripping, revealing, and very exciting. There is a complexity to this episode, which is refreshing.

Several brilliant scenes, the first being the intense showdown between Hickey and Crozier, the second being the big showdown with The Tuunbaq, it's wonderful to learn of its origin, and the implications it's existence had for Lady Silence, Silna, nice that we finally get to learn her name.

Phenomenal acting, Jared Harris never puts a foot wrong.

I loved it, 10/10.

This amazing and terrific series has many influences, though being adapted from a Dan Simmons'novel. We think about MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, THE THING, MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, with a bit slim slice of PREDATOR, but set in the ice setting and in the nineteenth century. I am not that surprised that Ridley Scott himself produced this show. This is truly a terrifying, intelligent and brillant piece of work, with a superb character study too, in addition to riveting, brutal, shocking actio scenes for the common viewer. But this show is not flawless, in my own point of view. It could have been a bit shorter, five épisodes, that would have spared the audiences some lengths. but, I repeat, that's my own opinion.

This series better clean-up during awards season! The series was perfect! Perfect sound, production and acting especially Adam Nagaitis and Jared Harris. One Complaint: I wanted more of Cornelius Hickey's (well the man pretending to be Cornelius Hickey) backstory. He is evil yet captivating.

I was first drawn to this series when I read someone compare it to Taboo. There some similarities for example the quality of the writing, the storytelling and the high calibre of acting. There are shades of John Carpenter's The Thing, and later on, The Shining, but it gives way to something higher, almost supernatural and spiritual. The last four episodes of this magnificent series have left me shaken and stunned and deeply moved. I can recommend this series wholeheartedly and say it is one of the best I've seen in the past years. That is up there with Breaking Bad and more recently, Mindhunter. The acting is of the highest calibre, with the performances by the almost exclusively male cast, just magnificent. Jared Harris will hopefully be rewarded come awards time, as should the series itself, its beautiful production design, score and cinematography. Just a brilliant series really. This series will linger for a very long time, in my mind.

The Terror comes to a conclusion. It really is a tale of morality, madness and monster mayhem.

The monster being the Tuunbaq and the men who resorted to cannibalism.

Crozier is brought to the camp to meet Hickey. Dr Goodsir leaves behind his poisoned body knowing that Hickey and his followers will not be able to resist his meat.

There is some startling imagery in the final episode. Hickey offering his tongue to the Tuunbaq. A bizarre and useless sacrifice. It looked like some of it was inspired by Dante's Inferno.

For Crozier there is a future but it is with the Inuit.

The series did suffer for being overlong with pace being glacial at times. The final run of the episodes in the first series, ramped up the pace and the horror.