Exceptionally late, I've finally gotten around to watching the first season of "The Terror" which aired on the BBC towards the end of 2020, whilst of undoubted quality - ultimately the pace of the series started to lose me, and I ended up skipping most of the second half of the season, to come back for the finale.
A two-ship expedition led by Captain John Franklin (Ciaran Hinds) tries to find a fabled northwest passage to aid quicker transportation around the Northern Coast of Canada/North America. The ships become trapped in the ice, and are forced to spend more than one winter in the tundra. As isolation, frostbite and eventually starvation take their toll on the crew, they are also picked off by a polar bear so unfeasibly large, as to be the stuff of nightmares.
Despite the enviable quality of the cast, despite the (mostly) excellent CGI and practical effects work, "The Terror" was just too slow for my taste. It may indeed have been my loss, but I feel it's telling that I missed four episodes, came back for the finale and didn't feel like I'd missed anything that made me struggle to understand what had happened. It was only a sense of interest in what the conclusion would be, that kept me from giving up entirely. This is again, accepting the fact that some of these actors I think are extraordinarily good, Ciaran Hinds, Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies and Paul Ready.
If the opportunity to watch the second season appears, I will approach that with an open mind, but I hope it proves a touch more dynamic than this one.