The Uneven Historical Horror of <em>The Terror: Infamy</em>
This story contains some spoilers for the first two episodes of The Terror: Infamy.
A woman in a kimono kneels before a mirror in a dark room. She stabs the knot of her black hair with two chopsticks before shuffling outside, down a deserted dock in the early morning. The water is still, offsetting the unnatural cracking sounds emanating from the woman’s ankles and neck. She lurches to a stop and reaches for a chopstick. She raises it high above herself and then, slowly, lowers it into her ear. Her face contorts in pain as the chopstick continues its descent. A trickle of blood escapes one nostril, and the woman collapses, dead.
This is the first and perhaps most viscerally frightening scene of , the second installment of AMC’s historical horror-anthology series. Set during World War II, follows a group of Japanese Americans who are subjected
