It’s generationally expansive and culturally expansive and linguistically expansive, telling much of its story in Japanese. There’s that, but The Terror: Infamy is a more expansive story on human levels. It’s not like Infamy is anti-ICE/anti-Trump propaganda, but splitting up families, imposing loyalty oaths, confiscating properties and putting citizens in camps surrounded by barbed wire was and is bad. treats immigrants and the disconnect between a country founded as a melting pot but prone to scapegoating “otherness” at every turn - though I guess if you find “Don’t put American citizens in camps surrounded by barbed wire” to be a disagreeable sentiment then you probably won’t like this season very much at all. Part of that is because The Terror: Infamy invariably slides itself into contemporary discussions of how the U.S. This would be bad enough on its own, but the Nakayamas seem to be followed by a dark force of some sort, a spirit capable of taking over bodies, turning them into lurching puppets and forcing them to harm and self-harm.Ĭreated by Max Borenstein and Alexander Woo, The Terror: Infamy is in all ways easier to connect to directly and personally than the first season. Soon, soldiers are rounding up anybody with even a drop of Japanese blood and moving them into internment camps.

7 - “A day that will live in infamy,” in case you aren’t on top of the timeline or the meaning of the title - happens.

That will have serious consequences, though on a micro level it’s only part of the bigger tapestry once Dec. Chester’s ultimate act of rebellion is a secret girlfriend Luz (Cristina Rodlo), who comes from a line of Mexican immigrants herself. You can trace the process of immigrant acclimation and assimilation from parents Asako (Naoko Mori) and fisherman Henry (Shingo Usami) to their son Chester (Derek Mio), college-educated and baseball-obsessed. The Terror: Infamy starts out in 1941 (you’ll be able to guess exactly when in 1941 without any real trouble) with the introduction of the Nakayama family, part of the fairly insular Japanese American community on Terminal Island, California. What The Terror: Infamy has in common with The Terror is the imposing of supernatural elements on a historical drama already fraught with suspense, forcing an ensemble caught in harrowing proximity to reconcile an unfathomable nightmare.

The terror by dan simmons