The writing, acting and cinematography are all terrific and the action has been relentless, especially in the last three episodes.

With a sterling cast led by Mad Men MVP Jared Harris, The Terror's ability to impart palpable sensations of cabin fever and endless-winter madness is more knuckle-whitening than anything its characters might encounter out on the ice.

If you have the patience to get through Episode 2, a thrilling and harrowing ride should be in front of you.

Before being stranded, the crew realizes that something immense, ungraspable and evil chases them... With that premise it was impossible not to tune (or download) The Terror and the first six chapters do not disappoint... [Full review in Spanish]

Explorers confront the fear of the unknown in scary mystery.

The Terror has a judicious hand with its monster story, using it mostly to add an extra top note of dread to the interpersonal conflict and imposing might of near-eternal winter.

Good, old-fashioned jolts of adrenaline are always welcome.

The Terror's ensemble cast is one of its strongest assets.

The Terror got my full attention from beginning to end. I couldn't turn away. I didn't want to turn away. For me, that's extremely rare.

"As the title suggests, The Terror is interested in fear itself, how it transforms us, how it turns us cruel and savage... it conjures a piercing dread, both familiar and inconceivable; a portrait of man and nature at their cruelest and coldest."

The Terror makes due on the strength of its performances and the chilly, unsettling atmosphere that surely will come to define the series. This will likely please fans of the novel, and be difficult for genre fans to pass up.

We're all still caught up in a mad, self-perpetuating cycle of fear. If that's your entry point to The Terror, so be it, but it doesn't have to be. The terror is many things, and one of them is bound to get you.

AMC's latest series may be the scariest thing it's put out in a long time.

The Terror can be scary, but it's real achievement is climatological. The freeze is tangible. When you watch it, wear a sweater.

The series never bests Simmons's book, but it is powerfully, pleasurably harrowing in its own right.