Season Premiere! “The Terror: Infamy” Monday, August 12 on AMC @ 9PM [Video]

Season 2 of The Terror tells a ghost story set during the forced relocation of Japanese Americans into concentration camps in World War II. George Takei (Star Trek), who spent time in such a camp, is among the regular cast.

The Terror is an American horror drama anthology television series. The series is named after Dan Simmons’s 2007 novel, which serves as the basis for the first season.

The first season was developed by David Kajganich and is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic in 1845–1848. Featured in the cast are Jared Harris as Captain Francis Crozier, Tobias Menzies as Commander James Fitzjames, Paul Ready as Dr. Harry Goodsir, and Ciarán Hinds as Franklin.

The second season takes place on the west coast of the United States during World War II and will center on “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”. Starring, Derek Mio and George Takei.

Derek Mio plays the lead role of Chester Nakayama, a son of Japanese born immigrants who joins the army. George Takei plays Yamato-san, a former fishing captain and community elder who was imprisoned with his family in two Japanese-American internment camps during WWII. Also, cast are Kiki Sukezane as Yuko, a mysterious woman from Chester’s past; Shingo Usami as Henry Nakayama, Chester’s father; and Naoko Mori as Asako Nakayama, Chester’s mother; and Miki Ishikawa as Amy, a Nakayama family friend. Takei also serves in a consulting role to ensure the accuracy of historical events and storytelling. C. Thomas Howell was cast as Retired Major Hallowell Bowen, an official with the War Relocation Authority whose “presence looms over the Japanese-American characters in the story.”

Josef Kubota Wladyka directed the first two episodes of the season. Production began on January 14, 2019, in Vancouver.