Episode
The Terror: First Shot a Winner, Lads
Overview
A strange illness begins to show itself while another more familiar one jeopardizes the expedition's most valuable resource: its captain's judgment.
Details
- Series
- The Terror
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2018-04-16
- Runtime
- 41 min
Episode context
First Shot a Winner, Lads is Episode 5 in Season 1 of The Terror. It aired on 2018-04-16. The runtime is 41 min.
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Episode 4: Punished, as a Boy
A cunning attack on the ships proves the men are not battling an ordinary bear and that the region's Inuit culture may hold a key to their survival.
Episode 6: A Mercy
With the end of their provisions in sight, officers contemplate a tough, risky strategy while struggling to raise the men's worsening spirits.
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Episode 9: The C, the C, the Open C
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