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The following is a slightly altered cross-post, originally published on Lola By The Bay. Last weekend, I finally got to see a matinee performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical, Hamilton, at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. While I usually tend to ignore anything in the mainstream media that gets really hyped up, Hamilton […]

AMC’s horror anthology series The Terror debuted in 2018 and quickly developed a cult following. The first season told the frosty isolated tale of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic in 1845, and its strong performances and moody tone earned the series rave reviews.

Now, the second season of the series is here with an all new horror tale set in California during WWII. The Terror: Infamy follows Chester Nakayama (Greek‘s Derek Mio) a Japanese American man who finds his family plagued by supernatural events while experiencing the real life horrors of America’s Japanese internment camps.

The series features an almost entirely Asian cast, which includes Shingo Usami (The Wolverine), Naoko Mori (Torchwood), and George Takei, who has written about his experiences in the camps as a boy. the series is led by showrunner and executive producer Alexander Woo (True Blood, Manhattan) and executive producer Max Borenstein (Godzilla: King of the Monsters).

Borenstein said of the season, “This season of The Terror uses as its setting one of the darkest, most horrific moments in our nation’s history … The Japanese-American internment is a blemish on the nation’s conscience — and one with dire resonance to current events.”

The featurette introduces us to the main characters as well as the mysteries that will unfold over the season. It’s an exciting glimpse at a unique series which promises a strong and effectively scary season of television.

The Terror: Infamy premiere August 12th on AMC.

(via /Film, image: AMC)

• Storm Reid and Maude Apatow discuss the wild first season of HBO’s Euphoria. (via Collider)
• Noelle Stevenson delves into the magic and relationships in season 3 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. (via CBR)
• Frederick Brennan, the founder of 8chan, thinks the site should be shut down. (via Deadline)
• The cast of The Good Place says goodbye as filming wraps on their fourth and final season.

Me as I said goodbye to Tahani forever, as I series wrapped on @nbcthegoodplace the most extraordinary experience of my life. Thanks for being the forking best @KenTremendous I owe you a kidney. pic.twitter.com/F4oKJNcL3D

— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) August 3, 2019

• These It: Chapter Two posters will keep you up at night. (via /Film)
• The cast of Preacher on their balls-to-the-wall final season of the irreverent series. (via The Beat)
• It’s been a long weekend, enjoy these arctic weasels:

blessing your tl with arctic weasels because honestly just look at them pic.twitter.com/QqGvgV7tv6

— rohan (@ridersovrohan) August 2, 2019

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A new teaser for the reboot of Nickelodeon's 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' hints at a more terrifying series. Watch the teaser below. (Photo Credit: Nickelodeon)

Things are getting sinister at Nickelodeon. The kids network dropped a teaser for its upcoming reboot of the 90s horror-fantasy series Are You Afraid of the Dark? and it looks set to scare a new generation of viewers with a darker, more frightening than the original.

The teaser trailer, via a first look from Entertainment Weekly, features a new group of kids gathered around an eerie campfire, submitting scary stories for the approval of the Midnight Society.

The reboot will premiere in October (the best month for a new horror series, of course), with three hour-long episodes about the new Midnight Society kids, who gather to tell the creepy story of Carnival of Doom. But just as the teaser trailer hints with terrifying vissions of the ringmaster, the events of the tale soon begin coming to life.

According to the Wrap, the new members of the Midnight Society are: Gavin, played by Sam Ashe Arnold (Best.Worst.Weekend.Ever.); Akiko, played by Miya Cech (Rim of the World); Louise, played by Tamara Smart (Artemis Fowl); Graham, played by Jeremy Ray Taylor (It, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween); and Rachel, played by Lyliana Wray (Black-ish). The Carnival of Doom’s ringmaster, Mr. Tophat, is played by Rafael Casal (Blindspotting).

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