The Terror episode 9 preview: The true test of men

The Terror episode 9 is set to come up on AMC in just one week and based on some of the earliest details that are out there, one thing feels fairly clear: We are seeing a crew on the verge of chaos. The execution of Hickey didn’t stick and beyond that, the Tuunbaq has now wrecked havoc on the camp. For a while it did seem as though there was some sort of decorum among the men. However, all of that may be drifting away as panic starts to settle in and most of these characters realize that their lives are on the line. The true mettle of someone comes when all the chips are down, and this is precisely the point that we are at with many of these characters now. There’s a sense of great hunger and exhaustion. Also, it should be readily apparent now that the Tuunbaq can attack at almost any time and there is nothing that many of these people can do about it.

Below, The Terror episode 9 synopsis offers up a little more insight right now in the subject of what could be coming up:

Dogged by worsening health, the men discover that their once-critical ranks and histories no longer matter to their chances for survival. It is now up to what inner strengths they can muster. Hope comes in strange forms, and the moral question of what each man is willing to do to survive starts to be settled in both noble and horrifying ways.

At this point, even without knowing the history or the stories out there, it should feel pretty likely that these characters are now getting out of this situation okay. They are going to continue to suffer and be in peril and this is just something that is going to last for a good while. Part of our intrigue comes down now to which one of these characters can hold on to what remains of their convictions the longest … and also who is going to be the first of the group to officially snap.

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