The Terror, BBC Two review - nightmare in the Arctic wastes | reviews, news & interviews The Terror, BBC Two review - nightmare in the Arctic wastes The Terror, BBC Two review - nightmare in the Arctic wastes Powerful cast in doomed search for the Northwest Passage by Adam SweetingThursday, 04 March 2021 Admittedly, Antarctic explorer Captain Scott was at the other end of the earth from the protagonists of The Terror (BBC Two), but they would surely have concurred with his anguished observation: “Great God! Admittedly, Antarctic explorer Captain Scott was at the other end of the earth from the protagonists of The Terror (BBC Two), but they would surely have concurred with his anguished observation: “Great God! This is an awful place.” Based on Dan Simmons’s novel,