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Infamy – The Terror

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Infamy – The Terror

Aug 2019

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A series of bizarre deaths haunt a Japanese American community during World War II while Chester Nakayama and his friends and family face persecution from the American government in a Japanese internment camp.

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Real-world and supernatural horrors collide in Infamy, an exceptionally well-crafted ghost story that creeps under the skin and stays there.

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Bethan Ackerley

Empire Magazine

07/19/2023

The Terror: Infamy is a much-needed confrontation between America’s past and present, but it doesn’t deliver on the scares its title promises.

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Michael Hogan

Daily Telegraph (UK)

05/07/2022

2/5

If it neither looks, swims nor quacks like a duck, then is it even a duck at all? In this case, sadly, it’s closer to a turkey.

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Aja Romano

Vox

12/03/2019

Though creepy and often effective, its supernatural horror plot is largely built around clichés involving women and motherhood, which are harder to sustain as compelling drama over a 10-episode season.

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John Townsend

Starburst

07/14/2022

3/5

With similarities to the recurring imagery inherent in the J-horror films from the 1990s, there are moments of genuine atmosphere and titular terror, and yet for some reason, the series doesn’t quite hold together.

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Li Lai

Mediaversity Reviews

03/09/2020

C+

The Terror: Infamy provides crucial representation, but not across the board.

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Dan Schindel

Hyperallergic

02/27/2020

[A] thread emerges about how assimilation can become its own active force in the lives of immigrants and their descendants... The Terror makes this the heart of the hostility surrounding its characters, an atmosphere more unnerving than any ghost.

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Sam P

@laniakea May 28

It begins well. The setting, Japanese-American internment camps, a shameful chapter of the USA's deeply racist history, feels fresh and haunting, and for a few episodes the show seems like it might do it justice. Then it falls apart completely. What starts as slow-burn psychological horror descends into pure silliness, a demon stomping around in broad daylight, characters convulsing with bones cracking every other scene like a bargain-bin haunted house. The subtlety evaporates entirely, replaced by increasingly ridiculous supernatural theatrics. The more the show leans into its monster, the less scary and less interesting everything becomes. The internment camp backdrop deserved far more thoughtful treatment. Instead, real historical trauma gets buried under cheap horror clichés. A frustrating waste of a genuinely powerful premise.

Gareth v

@geewah Aug 13

A distinctive mix of supernatural and historical storytelling that’s more compelling for its setting and themes than for its scares.

Rév O

@RT27005567 06/08/2025

The real terror is that it was bundled together with the terror season 1, calling itself terror season 2. No relation between the two and this one is as horrible as the first one was terrific.

CT 8

@ct8787 12/19/2024

Season 2, though solid in terms of storyline, acting etc…just didn’t have the atmosphere of Season 1. Though admittedly, equaling or exceeding Season 1 was always going to be a monumental task.

babarizam D

@RT59932316 07/01/2024

Season 1 is amazing. Season 2 however, tries to combine so many elements and that it losses the sense why it is called season 2. I think show runner had True Detective style in mind but sadly didn't work out

Virus S

@RT64660741 12/23/2023

This show is a fantastic production. It delivers a critical look at US treatment of Japanese immigrants, and first-generation citizens, during the anxieties of WWII. The Japanese concentration camp residents are haunted both literally and figuratively by relics of their heritage. The Terror uses clever metaphor to deliver its bleak depiction of what a society will do when it panics.

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Derek Mio

Chester Nakayama

Shingo Usami

Henry Nakayama

Naoko Mori

Asako Nakayama

Cristina Rodlo

Luz Ojeda

Kiki Sukezane

Yuko Tanabe

George Takei

Nobuhiro Yamato (Yamato-san)

Episode 1

Aired Aug 12, 2019

Infamy: A Sparrow in a Swallow's Nest

In 1941, Chester Nakayama is caught between his insular Japanese-American neighborhood on Terminal Island and his current all-American life; extreme circumstances push his community and personal life to the brink, all while someone watches closely.

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Episode 2

Aired Aug 19, 2019

Infamy: All the Demons Are Still in Hell

After Pearl Harbor, the Terminal Islanders are evicted from their homes and must find shelter elsewhere; while Henry, separated from his family, faces injustice at the hands of the government, Chester engages in a paranoid search for answers.

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Episode 3

Aired Aug 26, 2019

Infamy: Gaman

As the Terminal Islanders adjust to their new surroundings, Chester tries to provide for his family, while fending off the evil that follows him; Henry reels from the trauma of his imprisonment; Asako sees bad omens; Amy takes up a new job.

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Episode 4

Aired Sep 2, 2019

Infamy: The Weak Are Meat

Chester, in search of a better life, is treated with hostility by his fellow Americans; Luz hopes to be accepted by Henry and Asako in their new home as the Japanese American community celebrates Obon, a festival to commemorate the dead.

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Episode 5

Aired Sep 9, 2019

Infamy: Shatter Like a Pearl

The Japanese Americans are forced to undertake a humiliating exercise that divides the community; Chester comes face to face with a man who forces him to question his very nature; Luz, stricken by grief, is forced to make an important choice.

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Episode 6

Aired Sep 16, 2019

Infamy: Taizo

A story of the past provides insight into the present evil that stalks the Terminal Islanders; Chester returns home to his family; Henry and Asako are faced with a difficult decision.

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Episode 7

Aired Sep 23, 2019

Infamy: My Perfect World

The Nakayamas have been torn apart; Chester searches for the person he believes can help, by any means necessary; an outbreak in the community forces Amy to act, though she's caught between doing what she's told and doing what's right.

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Episode 8

Aired Sep 30, 2019

Infamy: My Sweet Boy

Chester and Luz have reached a turning point in their relationship; Amy must take matters into her own hands as she's tormented by a powerful nemesis; Chester meets a boy who gives him answers.

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Episode 9

Aired Oct 7, 2019

Infamy: Come and Get Me

The Terminal Islanders return home to find that things have changed since they left; the Nakayamas, still tense from the pain they've inflicted on one another, must come together to battle the spirit that threatens their future.

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Episode 10

Aired Oct 14, 2019

Infamy: Into the Afterlife

Henry and Asako look to the past to provide answers to their current turmoil; Chester and Luz grapple with their identities in hopes of saving those who are dearest to them; Amy and Yamato-san struggle to once again assimilate into American life.

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