The Ridley Scott executive-produced horror anthology The Terror has finally returned after seven years. As expected, it became an instant streaming hit.
The series debuted in 2018 to fantastic reviews, and it has been hard to match the success of the first entry, even though Season 2, titled Infamy, had positive reviews. After a long wait, Season 3, The Terror: The Devil in Silver, returned stronger than ever, and it’s officially a streaming hit, FlixPatrol reports.
The horror show debuted on AMC and AMC+ on May 7, and it headed straight to the top of the charts. Three days later, the show is still dominating the charts, keeping titles like 2026’s horror Whistle, HBO’s hit horror anthology Tales From the Crypt, as well as The Audacity and I Am Legend.
What Happens in The Terror: Devil in Silver?
The horror anthology has never had a connection to the previous entries, and Season 3 is no different. The six-episode series, which brings back Scott as an executive producer, features writers and showrunners Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) and Victor LaValle (The Changeling), whose novel is the inspiration for the latest entry.
The Terror: Devil in Silver follows Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, an institution filled with people society would rather forget.
There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity that thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
The Terror: Devil in Silver stars Dan Stevens (Godzilla vs Kong), Judith Light (The Punisher: One Last Kill), Aasif Mandvi (Evil, This Way Up), John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C, Lilly), CCH Pounder (3 Body Problem, NCIS: New Orleans), Stephen Root (Barry, Heads of State), Michael Aronov (The Americans, Operation Finale), Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete, Glass Chin), Chinaza Uche (Silo, A Good Person), Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue, Instant Family), b (WeCrashed, You), Hayward Leach (Tom Swift, Love Life), and Philip Ettinger (First Reformed, I Know This Much Is True).
The Terror: Devil in Silver Set a New Rotten Tomatoes Record
The horror anthology has received fantastic reviews so far, with Season 1 boasting a Certified Fresh 94% approval score from critics and 89% from the audience, with Season 2, Infamy, getting a slightly lower 80% Certified Fresh approval from critics and 65% from the audience.
Season 3 set a new Rotten Tomatoes score with a fantastic rating. The Terror: Devil in Silver debuted with a perfect 100% score from critics, which has since dropped to a still thrilling 95% approval score from 20 reviews. There is no audience score available at the time of writing.
CBR’s own Katie Doll gave The Terror: Devil in Silver a positive review, praising the performances, the story, and the satisfying end for the lead character. The review does point out that the series does a disservice to people with mental illness, writing the new entry “thrives when it’s most focused on dramatic issues backed by societal pitfalls. The horror part of the series can be a bit of a head-scratcher — the lore of the Devil is loaded with so many different interpretations that it becomes an unreliable urban legend. But curiously, this also makes any confrontations with the creature a gratifying treat.”
The Terror: Devil in Silver releases new episodes every Thursday on AMC and AMC+.
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2018 – 2025-00-00
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AMC, Shudder, AMC+
- Showrunner
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David Kajganich, Soo Hugh, Christopher Cantwell
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Ciarán Hinds
Sir John Franklin
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Derek Mio
Chester Nakayama