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started watching the terror. love that little moment where francis just casually writes 'imagination' with two m's in his resignation letter
Sat Feb 1 2025: All I did today was make coffee, go for a walk, and read about doomed voyages to Antarctica in the early 20th century. Ideal day.
One of my favorite sort of subtly off-putting details in the Terror is how fucking healthy Hickey looks right up until the end, everyone else is grimy and emaciated and bleeding from their hair follicles and he looks...fine
in the Canadian Arctic straight up “not finding it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. The nornthwest pessage
THE TERROR x SUCCESSION Main Title Theme by Nicholas Britell
there are so many parallels to be made between The Terror and The North Water... even beyond the obvious common points of "sad boys on a boat are stranded in the Arctic and there's some killing and mutiny involved". the way both shows use these backgrounds to explore themes like identity (faking one, lacking one, rebuilding one), masculinity especially related to class and religion, colonialism, the way both shows go beyond the saint/monster dichotomy and while being incredibly dark and showcasing human-made horrors, still manage to leave room for redemption and/in solidarity
