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[Video] If You’re Not Watching “The Terror,” You Missed This Gruesome Creature Kill

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8 years ago

April 4, 2018

John Squires

“This place wants us dead.”

With so much great horror on television right now, we realize it’s becoming nearly impossible to watch everything you want to be watching on a weekly basis. “The Walking Dead” and “Ash vs. Evil Dead” have been the two main staples in my own weekly rotation these last several weeks, and I recently added AMC’s new series “The Terror” to the mix.

In “The Terror,” produced by Ridley Scott, “The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic’s treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.”

As of this past Monday, three episodes of “The Terror” have thus far aired, effectively building up the suspense of precisely *what* is hunting the men aboard the two expedition ships. As if the harsh winter elements weren’t enough of a horror to endure, they’re being killed off by *something*… something we haven’t yet glimpsed in full.

The series was wonderfully restrained in its first two episodes, but oh boy did things get bloody and nasty in Episode 3, “The Ladder.” Shockingly, main character John Franklin (played by Ciarán Hinds) was attacked and brutally killed off by the mysterious beast, which first tore his leg clean off and then pushed him down into an icy death pit.

And it all started with another man getting his head ripped in two.

If you love winter-set horror stories, you NEED to be watching “The Terror.”

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Replicants Rule the World in First Images from Prime Video’s ‘Blade Runner 2099’ TV Series

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4 hours ago

July 23, 2026

Meagan Navarro

Blade Runner is headed to the small screen in Prime Video’s upcoming Blade Runner 2099, set 50 years after Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, in a world where replicants have emerged on top after an uprising.

Humans are no longer in power.

At the forefront of the new series are stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo), and EW has shared the first images of their characters.

Yeoh stars as a replicant Blade Runner named Olwen, facing the final days of her life. It’s a twist on the Roy Batty story from the first film; here, that story will be told from the replicant’s perspective.

Opposite her is Schafer as Olwen’s partner, Cora, a human fugitive pretending to be a replicant. Olwen and Cora will be working together to investigate missing rogue replicants.

Blade Runner 2099 comes from Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Amazon Studios. Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) is writing, showrunning, and executive producing.

Jonathan van Tulleken (“Shōgun”) will direct and executive produce the first two episodes.

Luisa tells EW that Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi noir acts as the series’ North Star, but it’ll forge its own identity: “We leaned into sunshine noir. You’re still very much in the Blade Runner world, but the show is about a birth. It’s about a birth of a city. It’s about a birth of a replicant era. These characters are discovering who they really are. And so the climate is hot, it’s sticky, it’s sunny. We’re on the coast a lot. We’re in Santa Monica a lot. So it’s like you’re seeing Ridley’s texture, but you’re seeing it in the sunshine noir filter.”

The showrunner adds, “The show is really imagining what comes after us, and what does it mean to be human in a world where humanity is no longer relevant?“

Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) also star in the upcoming series. Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), and Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon) join as recurring guest stars.