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Serial television addicts have become more than accustomed to “morally gray, mostly white men making poor decisions when the chips are down” plotlines sincekicked off the antihero craze 20 years ago. The first season of the horror anthology series, which tells the tale of the slow and grisly end that comes to the crews of two British ships—Sir John Franklin’s—on a failed mission to navigate the Northwest Passage in 1846, trafficks in this trope, but with a twist.
If the body horror or creeping dead don’t turn your stomach sour, the reminder of the ugliness of the past surely will. But if you’re ready and willing to experience it, the rewards are considerable. It’s captivating, provoking and complex, as eager to earn your stunned silence as it is to send you pushing back from the television in revulsion. Most importantly, it never sacrifices story and especially character in pursuit of those reactions.