AMC's The Terror is the rare TV series that benefits from its slow burn

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"This sounds a little like the old eye-rolling excuse of 'Just wait until it gets good!' but I would suggest that the things that make The Terror such terrific TV are, ultimately, inextricable from the things that make the first few episodes a tougher sit," says Todd VanDerWerff. "You need to feel the boredom and the anxiety that stems from waiting for the ice to open up just enough to press forward, on toward the North American west coast. And the more the men are cooped up together, the darker their feelings toward each other turn, which really requires living in the stew with them for a while."

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