AMC’s just unveiled the first trailer for season two of The Terror. The second season of the anthology series is titled The Terror: Infamy and will premiere on Monday, August 12, 2019 at 9pm ET/PT.
According to AMC, the second season of The Terror is “one of the first depicting the internment of Japanese Americans on such a massive scale – complete with authentically recreated camps in scope and scale as post-WWII.”
Showrunner Alexander Woo (True Blood) and Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island) co-created the series. Woo and Borenstein executive produce with Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert, Guymon Casady and Jordan Sheehan.
The cast of season one was led by Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, and Ciaran Hinds. Season two features Derek Mio (Spooked, Greek) as Chester Nakayama; Kiki Sukezane (Lost in Space) as Yuko, a mysterious woman from Chester’s past; Cristina Rodlo (Miss Bala) as Luz, Chester’s secret girlfriend; Shingo Usami (Unbroken) as Henry Nakayama, Chester’s father; and Naoko Mori (Everest) as Asako Nakayama, Chester’s mother. Miki Ishikawa (9-1-1) plays Amy, a Nakayama family friend and George Takei (Star Trek) is Yamato-san, a community elder and former fishing captain. Takei is also serving as a consultant.
The dramatic anthology series is an AMC Studios production produced by Scott Free, Emaj Productions and Entertainment 360.
The Terror: Infamy Plot:
“Featuring a cast and crew with deep-rooted connections to WWII, the internment of Japanese Americans and the aftermath in Hiroshima, The Terror: Infamy centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community, and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.”
