The Terror: Infamy has a tough act to follow. Season One of the period horror anthology series, exec manufacture d by Ridley Scott, dramatised the disappearance of Victorian explorers in the Arctic, and was an effective nightmarish thriller.###This second outing is set in a Japanese community in America just days bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Pearl Harbour. Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio), a Japanese-American photographer, wants to leave his childhood home on Terminal Island in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the mainland. Mysterious deaths and a ghostly presence named Yuko also haunt the island, and when America goes to war with Japan, members of Chester’s community are in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ced into internment camps, victims of racist paranoia.###There are inescapable parallels between these camps and those at the US-Mexico border today. The Terror: Infamy would always possess’own’nurse been an uncomin/with regard to’concerning’regarding table watch, but never more so than in this context. When documenting the brutality of the internment camps, it’s a bleak, brilliant drama rooted in the personal undergo s of many of its creative team – most poignantly, those of George Takei, who plays a community elder. As a child, Takei was imprisoned in an internment camp, and he acted as historical consultant in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this series.###And while the story might be historically accurate, it falters token ificantly when it steps into the supernatural: the spirit plaguing Chester’s community isn’t half as scary as Season One’s monstrous Tuunbaq.###Rather than horror enhancing the historical narrative, a fundamental reason in/with regard to’concerning’regarding series one’s success, this time round the spectral element undercuts the chilling reality of its setting. The Terror: Infamy is a much-needed confrontation between America’s past and present, but it doesn’t deliver on the scares its title promises.