We Are Gone
- Episode aired May 21, 2018
- TV-14
- 54m
The expedition's epic journey reaches its climax as men find themselves in a final confrontation with the Inuit mythology they've trespassed into.The expedition's epic journey reaches its climax as men find themselves in a final confrontation with the Inuit mythology they've trespassed into.The expedition's epic journey reaches its climax as men find themselves in a final confrontation with the Inuit mythology they've trespassed into.
- James Fitzjames
- (credit only)
- Thomas Blanky
- (credit only)
- John Franklin
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe song "Polar Sirens" featured from this episode by David Bickley and Tom Green is from their 2007 concept album Erebus & Terror - inspired by the very subject the series is depicting.
- Quotes
Cornelius Hickey: A man called Cornelius Hickey told me this expedition was a year in the Polar Sea and then out the other side. He told me the ship's plan to stop at the Sandwich Islands and the crew was going to dry out in the sun. "That's the other side of the world," I thought. "A year's nothing." So I dabbed him, left him in Regent's Canal, and here I am instead.
Francis Crozier: You could have just joined up.
Cornelius Hickey: I was going to show you my heels when we got to those islands, you know. I was going to hook it, start new. I'd seen the drawings in the weeklies. Oahu. Maui. That sounded nice.
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.
- southdavid
- May 26, 2021
Details
- Runtime54 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD