The Terror: Infamy Review: Come and Get Me (Season 2 Episode 9)
The Terror: Infamy Season 2 Episode 9, “Come and Get Me,” moves away from the real world plot to focus on the supernatural threat in preparation for the end of this story.
With “Come and Get Me” being the penultimate episode of this season, now seems like a good time to reflect on some of the season as a whole. It’s something we’ve mentioned in regards to previous episodes, but this seems all the more necessary to touch on since the show has effectively closed down this section of itself.
Why is this season set during the time of Japanese Internment camps if it wasn’t ultimately going to play into any of the story? Perhaps a grand reasoning will reveal itself when the season wraps up, but right now it simply seems like it was just there to be window dressing. That’s severely underwhelming for a plethora of reasons.
That isn’t to say that the show’s depiction of the camps has been insensitive or mishandled in some profound way, but more that it seems extraneous and unnecessary at this point in the story. To look back at the first season and how it ended up working so well, the ultimate threat wasn’t the supernatural one but rather the human element.
The Terror: Infamy has done the opposite. The spirit has ended up being the big bad, the thing you really need to be scared of while the military and the government aren’t slotted into that role as strongly.
It’s almost as if the show wanted the significance of this shameful event but didn’t really know what to do with it. They couldn’t figure out how to tie the spirit and the camps together cohesively, so they just kind of left it as it is. The baffling thing about this plot with the camps is that you didn’t need it. You could get to everything with the spirit and not have the rest.
The concentration camps that the American government used during WWII are absolutely something we should always be considering, especially given the current situation with immigration. This season just never quite proved that this is the story within which to have that conversation.
At the same time, it feels like a misstep to have the camps anymore because after that, the episode feels very aimless — which is what a lot of “Come and Get Me” boils down to. It’s waiting around in cramped spaces for the spirit to come get them (sorry, it’s unavoidable), and it lacks any kind of vitality.
The point of doing scenes like that is so characters can have engaging, incisive conversations with each other as the tension and suspense heightens, but that doesn’t really happen here. It feels like the show has mined everything out of these characters that it can, and now it’s all just holding patterns with slight moments of horror.
Ultimately, we’re just waiting to get to the end now so we can be done with it — and that’s disappointing for a show that was so strong in its season.
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The Terror: Infamy airs Mondays at 9/8c on AMC.
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Drew Koenig
Drew has an ongoing, borderline unhealthy obsession with pop culture, but with television in particular. When he's not aggressively trying to get out of a perpetual state of catching up, he can be found passionately defending the ending of Lost. More of his online work can be found at The Lost Cause and he also co-hosts The Lost Cause Pod.