History Buffs: The Terror

[Music] this episode's sponsored by curiosity stream hello and welcome history buffs my name is Nick Hodges and this review will be about one of the last epic voyages of discovery and the horrors that awaited its crew based on the book the terror by Dan Simmons this is the true story of a British Arctic expedition that went horribly wrong by the early 19th century most of the world's oceans had already been explored and charted but there were few blank spots in the map that still remained a mystery one was prized amongst all others the fabled Northwest Passage for over 400 years explorers at search for a shortcut to Asia and they believed it existed in Canadian Arctic waters hidden somewhere in a labyrinth of ice packs and icebergs that continuously shift with the winds and currents it was believed to be impossible to find a way through that was until the British Royal Navy believes they finally had the answer in 1845 they launched two of the most technologically advanced ships of the day HMS Erebus and HMS terror but despite their preparations these two ships disappeared off the face of the earth and it is in this horror miniseries that we find out why however since it is based on a fictional book there are creative liberties taken so what I'll be doing in this episode is to present to you the real history behind that terrible voyage and a view the show's inaccuracies towards the end as well as my likes and dislikes with it this is the terror [Music] here is a part of the Arctic at its worst the long polar night during winter when the Sun doesn't rise at all for weeks there are no trees or plants to be found just a barren landscape cloaked in snow and ice its surrounding seas of frozen solid and the windchill brings the temperature down to minus 40 and below these weather conditions that the men of the Franklin expedition were forced to live in for years it's because of these conditions that the Northwest Passage remained elusive for so long which is why when the British tried again in 1845 it was the largest and best-equipped expedition they had ever sent the most obvious way we could see this is with the ships themselves HMS Erebus and HMS terror to former bomb vessel class warships they were very tough and had been originally designed to hold the weight and fire large mortars on their decks the theory was that their resilience and durability made them ideal withstanding the enormous pressure from ice this seemed to be proven with both ships performed well in other polar voyages thanks to a series of specially built-in modifications for example the ships were strengthened with extra planking at the bow and waterline to prevent ice damage the hold was sealed off into watertight compartments to hinder flooding and a recent new innovation at the time a stove connecting to a series of pipes throughout the ship's to provide central heating by the time of the Franklin expedition in 1845 Erebus and Tara were improved on even further their boughs were fitted with iron sheeting and they were both installed with enormous steam engines that drove a screw shaped propeller meaning that they could harness the power of steam as well as the wind to push their way through the ice and if the propellers needed fixing well they had an answer for that as well you're about to surpass us all son you're going somewhere no man has ever been another recent innovation was the diving suit and just like we see in the show they would have been used for jobs like clearing ice from the propellers or repairing parts of the hull a diver can now go below even in sub-freezing Arctic waters a feat that would have been impossible just a few decades before it's clear that the British were very enthusiastic about using the latest and venture aside from modifying their ships the Admiralty also wanted to fix that age-old problem of feeding its men it just so happens that another new invention had recently arrived on the scene it was a process called canning in which food was sealed in airtight containers and could safely be preserved for years he could pack it full with meat fruits and vegetables and would be fresh as that day was sealed and since canned food had worked so well in the past it was decided that this would make up the bulk of the provisions on the Franklin expedition aside from feeding and sheltering the men thought was also put into their education the morale and basically stopping them from getting bored for example the officers mess had a library of more than 2,000 books to read costumes were provided so the offices of man could perform in plays sports and games would likely be encouraged as well all of this would have contributed to the mental health and well-being of the crew especially for the long dark winter months ahead so that takes care of the ships in their basic kit now let's take a look at the very man this expedition was named after Captain Sir John Franklin at the age of 59 this is going to be his fourth journey into the Arctic two of which have been in search of the Northwest Passage as well this third and final one was supposed to be his magnum opus before he retired gracefully at first glance he seems like the right man for the job Franklin had experienced the Arctic he had a keen interest in science and was well-liked by his crew he was seen as a kind and romantic leader with an infectious enthusiasm for exploration however his professional reputation wasn't quite so flattering in 1819 Franklin led a poorly planned expedition in northern Canada the Nili ended in disaster and resulted in the deaths of eleven men he and the rest were only able to survive on a broth of rotting deer skins bones and rock lichen and eating scraps of leather from their clothes it was because of this experience that Franklin became known as the man who ate his own shoes it was kind of seen as a joke when Franklin returned to Great Britain one that deeply embarrassed him he also had a habit of rushing into dangerous situations without thinking first and not minding his surroundings or equipment despite his best intentions its almost preordained that the expedition was doomed to fail the very name of Franklin's flagship Erebus is from Greek mythology representing the darkness to the entrance of hell we are amply provisioned for three years and up to five with strict rationing your rescue plan what is you rescue plan there'll be nothing yeah nothing lives there nothing grows if they slow in the great white nothing and 134 staff men won't learn devil against you starting with the ones you hold closest [Music] Erebus and terror sailed from England in May 1845 and crossed the Atlantic Ocean after a month at sea they arrived in Greenland to take on additional supplies this would be the last experience of civilization before they ventured out into the unknown as the ships resupplies five men were sent home for medical reasons as well as an assortment of letters from the crew in them they described them morale amongst themselves too as high and fairly confident in the success of the mission the letters also stated that by the time Erebus and terror left Greenland the offices had already begun their scientific testing they were tasked with observing and recording atmospheric and terrestrial phenomena they were likely to see the Franklin expedition was heading somewhere that the average person Victorian Britain would seem like another world a place where sometimes the sky has three suns instead of one known as Sun dogs they are made by ice crystals in the atmosphere that bend sunlight and appears a halo far off into the horizon or during the winter months they would have seen the aurora borealis when the polar night sky lights up from SolarWinds colliding with the atmosphere truly beautiful and spectacular things to witness but it is also a place where trustworthy compass can no longer be relied on as the magnetic north pole is always shifting the navigators on Erebus and terror needed to constantly correct their compass readings to true north if they wanted to stay on course today the feat of navigating way through the Arctic is far less dangerous comparatively thanks to modern technology satellite different magnetic compasses pointing all over different directions our gyro compass Mario between its fairly benign as long as everything works just fine but if we did have to go back to old-school magnetic compass stuff it could get a little exciting unfortunately the Franklin crew didn't have such luxuries and they wouldn't have been excited to see what was happening with their compasses in July 1845 two whaling ship spotted Erebus and terror and Baffin Bay before entering the icy maze to the passage and then they were gone when the first year passed without words there was no alarm Sir John Franklin was expected to spend at least one went out to the ice and the ships were stocked for three years but when January 1847 came around and still nothing was heard that's when people started to get worried Sir John's wife lady Franklin was the most concerned she and John's friends knew that Erebus and terror would run out of food by the summer of 1848 and any chance to rescue them had to be mounted as quickly as possible lady Franklin explained as much when she appealed to the Admiralty but her frustration there were hesitant to do much there fishel response to her and to the public which they had unlimited confidence in the skills and resources of Sir John Franklin but that wasn't enough for her unimaginable temperatures no one can convince me that optimism or confidence is one-half fed up and angry lady Franklin decided to go over the Admirals his head by appealing directly to the British public she turned to every friend and contact she had to raise awareness including the famous author Charles Dickens this helped put pressure on the British government and as winter approached in 1847 with still no word that's when they decided to act the first of many rescue missions were sent in 1848 to find Franklin ships but it was until August 1850 that they found their first major clue on a remote corner of beachy island 230 miles west of Baffin Bay with three graves scattered alongside them were the remains of a camp but not much else it seemed that not long after Erebus and terror entered Lancaster Sound back in 1845 Franklin ordered his ships to take shelter for the winter off the coast of beachy Island did the seat enter ice I didn't thaw until the next year we can reasonably determined this is what happened based on the evidence left at the site for example if we read the headstones of the three men we get a rough timeline of how long Franklin's crew stayed on beachy Island the first two men John Torrington and John Hartnell were both buried in early January 1846 whereas the third man William Blaine was buried later in April now we don't know exactly when the ice melted just that when it did the crew are forced to leave rather suddenly the reason why is because Franklin had been waiting for a path to open through the ice for months so when it finally did they had to leave quickly before the ice closed in again with beachy island finally behind them Erebus and terror continued with their mission they sailed south towards King William land and it was there where they hoped to find an entrance to the passage it was at this crucial moment when Franklin had to make a big decision in which direction to take when they arrived the exact shape of King William land is unknown as we discovered with Cornwallis land it could be King William Island with a chance to sail around its Eastern Shore that is an interesting speculation now we know today that King William land is really King William Island but back then they could only speculate I don't doubt the possibility was brought up to Franklin but in the end he chose to sail west rather than east what he didn't know was that by taking this route led him to one of the most dangerous waterways in the Arctic it is a place where every year pack ice from the north is blown south by prevailing winds creating a choke point impossible to sail through and I was by King William Island northern coast where Erebus and terror became trapped in the ice no doubt Franklin's crew did everything they could to free their ships from using giant ice sauce or even explosives to blast their way through all to no avail for the second time the expedition became ice-locked and was going to be spending yet another winter in the Arctic all they could do now was hope for the ice to melt again next summer [Music] throughout the 1850s rescue mission searched the vast Canadian Arctic hoping to find Franklin's crew but it was until 1859 - they find another major clue on a northern coast of King William Island they found a pile of blue stones called a kin and hidden inside was a message by the Franklin expedition written in May 1847 it said that Erebus and terror had remained stuck in the ice for the winters of 1846 and 47 that Franklin was commanding and all was well but scribbled in the outer edges of the message was a second report written in April 48 it stated that Franklin had died 23 of his men had died the ships were abandoned and a hundred five of the survivors will be walking 250 miles south two backs fish river which could take them to the nearest trading post when news of the message reached home it shocked Victorian Britain people couldn't understand how the greatest Arctic expedition met with such disaster with even its own captain dead how and why this happened are the questions I'll be answering in this part of my review on the surface Franklin's expedition did seem like the best equipped but when he stand back and look at the whole picture you'll see why was doomed from the beginning let's break everything down starting with Erebus and terror like I said before there were both former warships but they weren't ideal for where they were going in fact their size and strength worked against them much of these uncharted waters were shallow filled with shoals and rocks not to mention hidden icebergs lurking beneath the surface waiting to about the bottom of their hulls or even smash them on impact sailing through the ice here would have been slow careful work making their enormous steam engines pointless which unfortunately what's even that oppressive to begin with and the reason why is because they weren't maritime mentions they weren't designed for the sea the enormous steam engines on Erebus and terror were originally used for trains they were bought from the London and Greenwich Railway and produced 25 horsepower at the most this meant that the ship's top speed at full power and sail would only have been four knots woefully inadequate for they were expected to do that with this ship HMS rattler which towed Erebus beyond Scotland it had a much smaller engine but it produced 220 horsepower that's 9 knots so that basically renders the engines on Erebus and terror as one tonne paperweights I'm not even joking and for an expedition they're supposed to take two years each ship only brought with them twelve days worth of fuel so any decision to fire up the boilers would only firm eight sparingly in the Admiralty's mind this is all that was needed for one winter but no one could have predicted just how cold it was going to be normally Arctic ice melts in the summer but for some reason it didn't for Franklin's crew scientists today have been able to analyze ice core samples from the region and they show that back in the 1840s the Arctic experienced an intense cold period where the ice refused to melt even in summer for Franklin's crew it was almost like they were trapped in an endless winter one that lasted for five years freak weather conditions aside there was something else at work the high loss of life was staggering for such a well stocked ship after three years and the ice what exactly was killing these men in 1984 scientists hope to find the answer by exhuming the grave some beachy Island and they were shocked to discover that their remains have been remarkably preserved in the ice unfortunately I can't show you what they look like as it might be too graphic for YouTube but you should really look them up if you're interested anyway the scientists were able to determine that the three men had died from tuberculosis and pneumonia not exactly out of the ordinary given the time periods but then something else caught their eye during testing all three men had high levels of lead in their bodies much higher than normal and the source of the lead matched the solder used to seal the tin cans which suggests that the canned foods the Franken crew were eating was giving them lead poisoning now the physical symptoms are bad enough they include headaches muscle and abdominal pains but it also affects the mind causing confusion memory loss mood swings hallucinations paranoia and clouded judgment if we take all of that and mix it with a group of isolated men in a frozen wilderness well it doesn't take much to wander once is passed although the mind goes unnatural with those what kind of thoughts notions darkness this kind of darkness you see it among us here while this theory does seem to hold wait it isn't believed to be the main killer behind Franklin's crew but it may have acted as an accelerant another side effect of lead poisoning is that it greatly weakens the body's immune system and makes it vulnerable to other diseases such as a possible outbreak of tuberculosis we know that the three men of beachy islands died from it and that before them five men were dropped off in Greenland for medical reasons a more likely culprit however would have been something that all sailors feared scurvy a disease that wreaks havoc on the body first the gums swell up they turn black and bleed when touch making eating extremely painful bruises start appearing followed by internal bleeding from the eyes the nose even in the muscles and in the joints for the longest time the Royal Navy used bottled lemon juice to fight off its symptoms unfortunately lemon juice loses its potency over time which is one of the reasons why canned food was brought aboard the fruits and vegetables inside would provide vitamin C when the lemon juice failed but there was even another issue with the canned food besides from lead poisoning and that was not all had been properly sealed by the manufacturer it was discovered later that the Admiralty chose to buy their cans from the lowest bidder resulting in some of the food to spoil I'm concerned about the number of terrorist camp provisions turning up so I've discovered bad seals graeme and odors the curl my hair now in the event you've already developed a method for ending a I hope we can set aside your envy and share it and sort it goes to that saying that vitamin C breaks down in improperly sealed cans but you also have an even bigger problem any of the men who ate from the spoiled cans ran the risk of contracting botulism an illness caused by the toxic bacteria found in rotten food it causes fatigue paralysis and the muscles vomiting and a high fever to name a few and without treatment from an antitoxin the results can be lethal so what this tells us is that most of the food the Franklin crew brought with them was either making them sick or even killing them they probably figured this out and prioritize finding and hunting local game unfortunately their stroke of bad luck didn't even run out there it would have been difficult to find anything to hunt already but even if they had there was another health concern that they wouldn't have known about that part of the Arctic they were in is endemic with botulism type II it's the only strain of botulism that can survive in those freezing conditions and they can be found in marine animals like whales and seals and if they're not prepared or cooked in a certain way then you can contract the deadly toxin it's horrifying to think what these men went through it's like everything in that place was trying to kill them the decision to abandon their ships and try to walk it out could only have been made out of desperation and yet it was on that fateful walk where the troubles truly began [Music] trekking across that ice wouldn't have been easy for Franklin's men all those left to their food and supplies were loaded onto boats on top of sledges which they pulled by rope the reason why was because the boats would be needed later to row down backs fish river but the physical strain in pulling them would have been tremendous they would have weighed around 8,000 pounds which no doubt made them sweat and in those freezing conditions that sweat can turn into ice and exhausting endeavor for even a healthy group but these men were suffering the effects of scurvy they would have been in agonizing pain pulling these boats while they were bleeding in the muscles and in the joints and I can't imagine it would have been easier once they reached King William Island a landscape made up of limestone gravel and sand and any other men too sick to pull were likely loaded onto the boats as well adding even more weight and strain to the others but it would have been a comfortable experience as it would have rocked the scurvy ridden men from side-to-side eventually the sick who are unable to walk can't even be moved you to the pain the only thing that could be done with them was to put them up in tents and it's likely that the rest simply abandoned them as they continued their march south now as to what happened to the other survivors became the subject of much controversy in Victorian Britain mainly because they came from a reported sightings from the local Inuits population whom the British regarded as unreliable at best one such accounts came in 1869 by the American Explorer Charles Francis Hall who spent time with the Inuits they describes meeting a small group of white men on King William Island when they were sealing my my friends and I yeah [Music] well we're looking for game food yes the hunting party gave the starving men some seal meat but given how many there were there was no way they could possibly feed them all especially with their own families to worry about the harsh reality was that the Inuits felt they had no choice but to leave Franklin's men stories like this didn't portray the Inuits in the best possible light but that in matter because the British already had their mind set by an even earlier account by them one of the very first in fact in 1854 a British explorer called Sir John ray met with a group of Inuit who revealed to him the gruesome fate of Franklin's men they gave him trinkets they found littered across the island as proof of their story that could only have come from the expedition the natives described a campsite with 30 corpses some lay in tents while others scattered outside and within their cooking-pots they found human body parts in their last desperate hours these men resorted to cannibalism when news of the story broke it caused outrage and condemnation the Admiralty refused to believe it based on their own experiences in the Arctic that even on dwindling supplies the mere thought of eating their fellow man never entered their minds for the British public it was a moral issue these men were heroes when they left English shores they were the astronauts of their day to suggests they were capable of doing the unthinkable was quite frankly an insult John Ray's report was discredited at every turn the most famous account of this was by Charles Dickens who is a personal friend of lady Franklin in December 1854 he published three articles called the lost Arctic voyages in his weekly journal household words there were collection of short stories of marooned explorers faced with the same decision of whether or not to engage in cannibalism and at every turn he shot the idea down as he believed that only the lowest form of people would engage in such barbarism in one passage he denounced the testimonies of the Inuit by saying this we submit that the memory of the lost Arctic voyagers is placed by reason and experience high above the taint of the so easily allowed connection and outweighs by the weight of the whole universe that chatter of a gross handful of uncivilized people with a domesticity of blood and blubber this is the most widely accepted belief at the time and the true story wouldn't be confirmed until nearly a hundred and forty years later in 1993 archaeologists went to one of the campsites described by the inner wits and discovered the skeletal remains of Franklin's crew hundreds of bones were analyzed and they found evidence of cut marks specifically at the hands and the feet and of the neck suggesting that Franklin's men were deliberately removing the most human features of their dead comrades the only possible comfort from the story is that it could be argued that the Franklin expedition did indeed find the Northwest Passage as during their desperate march south they reached the coastline and would have seen the entrance to the passage at the very least is because of their need for rescue why the search party sent after them were able to solve the last piece of the puzzle and place it on the map in 1866 Parliament unanimously voted to erect a statue of Sir John Franklin in London as a monument to him and to the brave men of his expedition below the plaque it simply says they forged the last link [Music] [Music] I hope you found the story of the Franklin expedition to be as fascinating as I did it certainly captured the public imagination for over a hundred and seventy years and is this continued interest that's allowed us to learn more and more about what happened in this tragic piece of Arctic history even as recently as 2014 and 2016 when the shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS terror were finally found it appears to be in pristine condition eerie underwater images show the ship's mast still standing and a trove of historical artifacts inside the terror was discovered in the icy waters of Nunavut on the south shore of King William Island in the aptly named terror bay what are the chances of that they found HMS terror in Tara Bay you can't make this stuff up anyway enough about the historical background let's move on to the show itself the terrors quickly become one of my favorite miniseries to date and it's impressive to see how accurate it is given that it's based on a subject that's so wrapped up in mystery we don't know for certain what happened to Franklin's men every step of the way and therein lies the challenge of good historical fiction if you follow the rules and the clues history is provided then you have everything you need to tell a really scary story and he could find them all in the little details like for example I love how they incorporate Dutch angles into the show for those of you who are unfamiliar with this term a Dutch angle is when he tilts a camera on his axis to get a slanted shot normally this filmmaking technique is used to convey a sense of uneasiness that there's something not quite right and that can build up a lot of tension in a scene and that completely has the desired effect in the terror but what's really cool is that the Dutch angle actually makes sense from a historical perspective since Erebus and terror was stuck in the ice it's likely that neither ship was completely upright meaning those men spent years living in a slaughtered world and knew at any moment the pressure from the pack ice could break in through the hole another historical detail I liked was the inclusion of the pets on the real Franklin expedition there were three there was a cat's brought aboard to catch rats there was a Newfoundland dog called Neptune and a monkey given to Erebus by lady Franklin now aside from the cat both the dog and the monkey are cleverly written to the show for more than just background scenery for example we learn about the Royal Navy social hierarchy when the dog is brought up in conversation rank is that dog he's our next most nice so I guess you could call that watch duty our life that make you ma a bee or marine but it can what the Corps today does that makes me Petty Officer at least this teaches us that depending on rank you are allowed in certain areas the ship and knots and others that there was a deliberate distancing between the officers and the crew so that over-familiarity did not undermine discipline so what might seem like an innocent conversation does highlight the social tension with the idea of a dog having a higher status than a man as for the monkey well I liked how was used to test out the canned food now we don't know if this is the way it happened but it's reasonable to assume that they figured out the counter tainted after a few years and if doctor good sir the ship's naturalist had his suspicions then he might have come up with an idea like this I also loved seeing them use it daguerreotype camera at the time it was a brand new piece of technology that came out recently as 1839 and the expedition was indeed supplied with one it might have been lady Franklin's idea to buy it since she arranged for a photographer to take pictures of the officers and if you compared the portraits of Franklin crow's Ian Fitz James with the ones in the show then you will see that they're in the exact same poses which shows just how much of an effort was made in the terror being as accurate as possible now this doesn't mean that the terrorists perfect there are a few inaccuracies I can think of like when Cornelius Hickey is smoking a cigarette in the halt for one thing that's against Royal Navy regulations because guess what smoking inside a wooden ship as a fire hazard but even so he wouldn't be smoking a cigarette anyway because it hadn't been adopted in Britain yet these British sailors would have smoked tobacco in their clay and we know this because broken fragments were discovered in King William Island there's also the bit when dr. Harry good sir is opening a tin with a can opener but the problem is that they weren't invented until the 1850s instead they would have uses something as crude as a hammer and a chisel to cut a hole through the lid a bigger inaccuracy though would be the scene with veteran arctic explorer Sir John Ross warns Franklin that he's unprepared for his voyage but the thing is that Ross had been appointed British consul in Stockholm Sweden since 1839 I wouldn't return until 1846 a year after Franklin had left but even if he was in England I'm not sure if Ross would have been hanging out at the Admiralty's headquarters since he had a major falling-out with them over his failure to find the Northwest Passage in 1818 now these are all minor inaccuracies and they don't really spoil too much for me but if I had to pick one thing about the Terr I didn't like then it's this what could have done that there must be a bear did that my first thought seeing this was oh cool it's a polar bear because it looks like that famous 1864 painting man proposes God disposes that shows two polar bears ripping a boat apart from the Franklin expedition so imagine my disappointment when it turn out to be something else I do not believe it is an animal we battle not a man not a bear come on a manbearpig what does that look like for you it's manbearpig I told you it was real look again they're half man half bear and half pig yes instead of a polar bear these men are being stalked by a supernatural monster and I wish that wasn't the case because this show is so grounded in reality a text history so seriously that this thing feels out of place before any of you say in the comment section I'm well aware that there is a monster in the book I still don't like it what's wrong with changing it into a polar bear polar bears are the largest land carnivores on earth and they're one of the only animals that actively hunts humans and unless they're pregnant they don't hibernate during winter like other bears so what more do you need than that you got a prepackaged monster living in the Arctic and the best part is that they're real okay maybe calling the monsters is a bit harsh but the more I've learned about these animals the more in convinced that they should have been used there's this great documentary I watched about polar bears called survival in the ice kingdom and it covers everything you'd want to know about them you could find this documentary and thousands like it on curiosity stream it's a subscription streaming service that has nothing but documentaries including history and he could watch them all for just $2.99 a month but the best part is that fans of history buffs can get their first 30 days for free to sign up all you have to do is enter the promo code curiosity stream com forward slash history buffs anyway back to the review despite my objections with the monster I still think that terror is brilliant they somehow been able to take real history and adapted perfectly into the horror genre don't expect any cheap jump scares here the scariest parts aren't even about the monster but in the environment itself this show does a remarkable job of building up dread as each episode continues to get worse and worse and they see each man wither away and eventually become shadows of their former selves like ghosts in the tundra as a trusted friend once put it this place wants us dead and best of all it's clear that the creators respected the history they were trying to tell and made an effort to follow us as best they could I definitely recommend giving this a watch [Music] well that about wraps it up my name is Nick Hodges and thanks for watching history buffs and remember if you like the show help the channel grow if you wish to support history buffs then you can now do so at patreon and as always let me know in the comment section what you thought about the terror and of course what historical movie should i review next in the meantime check out the history post Twitter and Facebook page for new updates until then I'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: History Buffs

Views: 3,170,596

Rating: 4.9112062 out of 5

Keywords: HMS Erebus, British Navy, Royal Navy, Victorian England, Victorian Era, England, Canada, Arctic Circle, Arctic, Polar Bears, Jared Harris, Francis Crozier, Tobias Menzies, Sir John Franklin, Arctic voyage, Northwest Passage, History Buffs, Ciarán Hinds, Ian Hart, Charles Dickens, Tundra, Winter, King William Island, Ice, Scary Voyage, The Terror, The Terror Season 1

Id: jTgmCf82s3U

Length: 34min 52sec (2092 seconds)

Published: Sat May 18 2019

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[u/Imaginary_Map]

If any of you are watching Chernobyl right now, I beseech you to check out this show as Jared Harris is also the lead. Massively underrated slow-burn horror. For the moment, especially the first 4 episodes, is the closest we have to pure Lovecraftian horror on the screen.

[u/NinjaGamer89]

Fantastic god damn show.

[u/Spyderman242]

Great show! Love the dark aspects in the cinematography and acting.

[u/RetiredParanoiaAgent]

Really nice video. Thanks for posting it. And i have to agree - the Spoiler was the only thing i didn´t like about the show.

[u/Hohlraum]

I couldn't believe that they didn't turn it into a actual series about the entire book as opposed to a single season of an anthology. I need to finish watching it I only got like 2/3 of the way through it. The book Is incredibly in-depth if you haven't read it.

[u/JohnConstantine300]

History buffs is such a good channel. Now I want to re-watch The Terror....

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I really enjoyed watching this.

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[u/popesinbengal]

Great show and very interesting video. Both worth a watch

[u/Guardians_of_Pawnee]

Is this on any streaming services yet ??