AUGUST 11 - 17, 2019 staradvertiser.com HORRIFYING HISTORY The fi rst season of AMC’s chilling series The Terror garnered rave reviews, so of course the network has brought it back for a second round. Season 2 of the channel’s hit historical horror series returns, and this time it’s called The Terror: Infamy. Set in a Japanese internment camp in the United States during World War II, this season stars Derek Mio and George Takei. Premiering Monday, Aug. 12, on AMC. WE EMPOWER YOUR VOICE, BY EMPOWERING YOU. Tell your story by learning how to shoot, edit and produce your own show. Start your video training today at olelo.org/training olelo.org ON THE COVER | THE TERROR: INFAMY Infamous and terrifying AMC’s first anthology horror War Relocation Authority, the agency estab- their ships remained undiscovered until 2014 lished to conduct the relocation and intern- and 2016. series heads into Season 2 ment of Japanese-Americans during World To the already terrifying prospect of becom- War II. ing stranded in Arctic ice, Simmons added his By Kenneth Andeel Rounding out the cast is beloved veteran ac- own piece of supernatural flair to rocket the TV Media tor and activist George Takei (“Star Trek”), who story into truly brain-breaking territory. He plays Yamato-san, an experienced elder able added an unrelenting Arctic demon known as he first season of AMC’s chilling series to offer Nakayama wisdom and help him navi- the Tuunbaq, which pursued and savaged the “The Terror” garnered rave reviews, so of gate the perilous threat posed by spirits out of doomed survivors as they struggled to boat, Tcourse the network has brought it back Japanese folklore. In addition to his onscreen sled and hike their way out of the grip of the for Round 2. On Monday, Aug. 12, the second role, Takei also served as a consultant for the northern ice. season of the channel’s hit historical horror production. Having lived in an internment camp “The Terror: Infamy” replicates that formula series (now christened as a yearly anthology himself when he was young, he was an invalu- of real human history paired with a supernatu- program) returns, dubbed “The Terror: Infamy.” able source of knowledge. ral threat, but it relocates to an entirely differ- The altered title helps audiences differen- The first season of “The Terror” went into ent era. This season features a community of tiate the new season’s storyline from last development in 2016, and was adapted — Japanese-Americans during World War II who year’s, because this is not a continuation of quite faithfully — from the novel of the same are imprisoned in camps set up by a paranoid the first season’s story, but a whole new tale name by science fiction and horror author Dan U.S. government after the attack on Pearl of, well, terror. Simmons. Simmons’ book is Harbor. The new season stars Derek Mio (“Seal based on a legitimate incident These Japanese-American internment Team”) in the lead role of Chester Nakayama, from real-life history: the camps are seen as a shameful moment in a photographer who discovers creepy signs disastrous lost expedition American history, and the story of the camps of the existence of an otherworldly pres- led by Englishman Sir John remains largely unexplored by American televi- ence in his pictures. Mio is supported Franklin in 1845. Franklin and sion. No series has ever focused on life inside by Shingo Usami (“The Pacific”) and his crew intended to probe those camps, let alone one that features a ma- Naoko Mori (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go the Arctic region for the cov- jority Asian and Asian-American cast like “The Again,” 2018), who play his character’s eted Northwest Passage, but Terror: Infamy.” parents; Cristina Rodlo (“Too the two ships assigned to the task The new season juxtaposes the cruel fate Old to Die Young”) as his (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror) of interned families with this season’s new clandestine girlfriend, became icebound, and all iteration of occult monstrosity. Unlike the Luz; and C. Thomas 129 men who set out Tuunbaq of Season 1, which was an invention Howell (“Animal on the expedition per- of Dan Simmons, the preternatural baddie of Kingdom”) as a ished. The wrecks of “The Terror: Infamy” is a creature inspired by retired soldier Japanese folklore, known as a bakemono. In who oversees George Takei as Japanese mythology, a bakemono is under- functions seen in “The stood to be a shape-shifting entity that dis- within the Terror: Infamy” guises its original form. 2 STAR CHANNELS August 11 - 17, 2019 BEST BETS Sunday Tuesday Thursday Succession Pose Elementary HBO 6 p.m. FX 7 p.m. KGMB 9 p.m. Brian Cox returns as Logan Roy, founder of Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) deals with an unexpect- Lucy Liu stars as Dr. Joan Watson, who one of the most influential media and enter- ed loss. At the same time, Elektra (Dominique works alongside the brilliant-but-troubled tainment conglomerates in the world, in this Jackson) plans a girls’ trip to the shore. Billy detective Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in this drama. Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan season premiere. 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Set in the early 1970s, than 30 years before he was diagnosed with “Mindhunter” can rejoice: after nearly two Ford, Tench and Carr are at the forefront of a heart condition in 2014 and was given a years of waiting, the show will return for a criminal psychology as they work to under- year to live, prompting his retirement. Three second season, set to premiere on Netflix on stand serial killers by interviewing infamous years after the diagnosis, he was still alive Friday, Aug. 16. This intense psychological murderers such as Edmund Kemper (a.k.a., the and decided to return to the stage for a thriller coming from producers David Fincher “Co-ed Killer”). Season 2 promises to be even comeback tour. Enter filmmaker Ben Berman, (“Gone Girl” 2014) and Charlize Theron (“Long more intense, as the series leaps forward a few Shot” 2019) is not intended for the faint of who showed up to capture the tour and give years to the late ‘70s, when iconic serial killers a behind-the-scenes look at Johnathan’s heart.