Honestly there's no way that season 2 is going to be anything but a disappointment.

Already I'm unimpressed with both the concept, and the paranormal element.

The first season had Tuunbaq as it's paranormal creature, and they really spent time on the build up for it. It didn't properly get revealed until what, episode 4? Even then it was a bit of a background element except for the end of the season where it was needed to mow through whatever survivors were left.

Now in season 2 we have some dumbass ghost that can look like a normal ass person or some vague ass wind. The show already blew it's load on revealing what it is almost immediately. It's not going to magically become interesting because AMC doesn't have the balls or budget to make it anything else except for maybe a "true form" reveal when they kill the ghost or fucking whatever in the last episode.

On top of that, season 1 had this powerful creeping dread, and watching every character just suffer and fall apart after years of being stranded was actually painful to watch and made for a powerful and interesting narrative. It reminded me a lot of Cabin Fever (2003) with the shared element of not-that-unrealistic body horror. Man I was just happy to watch some of my favorite characters die in The Terror. Watching their skin rot/lead poisoning really take a toll on their bodies made me almost relieved for the characters when they killed themselves or died otherwise. The season was fucking bleak, and it did a great job of giving the feeling that nobody is getting out a live whist still dangling a carrot of hope up until the last episode where everyone just went into full on "fuck we need to do whatever it takes to save ourselves" and die because of it. The scene where they just abandoned the really sick people? Brutal.

What the fuck can season 2 do with its concept to come even close to this? Are the prison camp guards going to gyp them on servings of veggies? Lmao fuck off already with this season. I could tell just from reading the pre-release outline that it wasn't going to be even close to the first season. What a shock, looks like I'll be right.

All them words won't bring your pa back.

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And it won't make season 2 any better either bot buddy. But here I am anyways.

Is seasons two doing the same thing as the first by basing its story around true events?

Well, season one was actually based off of the novel of the same name. It's basically a 1 to 1 adaptation of the book, and that's why the writing was good since they had a blueprint.

Season 2 has no book to follow, so the hacks at AMC are left to their own devices. Also Ridley Scott isn't working on it anymore either, so that's another strike against it.

The extent of "true events" that are being used is when Japanese people were rounded up and put in camps after Pearl Harbor. That's it.

The actual historical story is scary enough, they didn’t need to throw in fucking manbearpig.

Same with the Japanese Internment, but here we are.