AMC's The Terror (2018)

(more franklin chat here, inc.how the inuit invented sunglasses and how walruses are scarier than shamanic man-bears: ancient disaster)

so is king william island really as bleak as the surface of the moon? in summer i think no, there is vegetation esp. towards the south of the island

and done

good sad strong ending, plenty of fan service to the anecdote-burdened real hedz who know (me) plus as much chaotic fuck you to same, which is fair (fuck me)

i did hope they'd dig up the very tall man with teeth as long as an inuit's fingers but he's wound right into the remanning and moving of the ships and that would require splitting the party into three not two, which would have been dramatically confounding i guess

also one (of the two?) bodies that made it all the way home is these day's thought to be goodsir's (they still thought it was someone else's when the book was written)

2: when sir john got his im sorry i laughed out loud

Yes, me also - I think mainly because certain facial expressions that Ciarán Hinds adopted reminded me very strongly of Frankie Howerd.

A breathing Earth: the annual pulse of vegetation, land and ice in a populat gif by illustrator and data visualizer John Nelson [source: https://t.co/pDO6aIGgJ7] pic.twitter.com/WT2wQFzJGN

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 30, 2021

telling that king william island never goes dark in that pulse: tho i think in some years its southern edge will be caught and will bloom

one theory of the catastrophe is that the expedition, having in fact survived largely at least a year or two of camping and hunting, then encountered (or in fact possibly caused) a local famine -- causing it (if they did) by overhunting just on the island (the intuit in the show hint at this, though they relate it as much to magtical-moralistic reasons as practical matters of e.g. musk ox or seal population)

5: no bad performances!

This is very true and noteworthy and something you can rarely say. I've recommended this to several people and everyone liked it but no one has been as wild about it as I am, other than here, obv. Because I'm tangentially related to stuff relating to the look of this, in theatre rather than film, I kept wondering how they achieved the overall look of it, it looks extraordinarily expensive. That's just logistical stuff I can't quite get my head around but the production design in every aspect of this is seriously impressive.

d'you mean the creation of the island landscape itself? or the man-bear or ???

i think i just decided it was filmed on real actual king william island even tho i don't actually think it looks very like that -- or else in that essex gravel pit that 70s doctor who was always filmed in lol

I read somewhere that it was pretty much all CGI.

I was thinking of the general land or icescape, the ships themselves and the size of the cast as well as the sheer amount of CGI required. Also individual set pieces like the tent for the carnival and the subsequent fire. Maybe my problem is that I just don't really watch shows of this kind so I don't see much of this kind of set or landscape building in my other telly viewing, it could be fairly routine now for all I know.

well, here are some answers

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/the-terror-location-cgi-not-shot-outside-1201945793/

the croatian island of PAG seems more of a mediterranean paradise than you'd expect from its role in this series, i guess that's our CGI dollars at work right there

Having the rare not-fake-looking-snow helped a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8VZKyHIg70

I saw there was a documentary on one of the iTVs or 4s a few days ago about the discovery of the Erebus but I 'd missed most of it by the time I found out so will have to look for a torrent of it

I didn't know about it, thanks. Its called Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship and it's on All4 or 4od or whatever it's called this week.