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The Terror: Devil in Silver Premieres on AMC+ and Shudder With Weekly Episodes

The new season pairs genre scares with a sharp look at how U.S. institutions treat mental illness.

Overview

  • The six-episode season premiered Thursday, May 7, with new episodes dropping weekly on AMC+ and Shudder through a June 11 finale.
  • The third entry in AMC’s horror anthology adapts Victor LaValle’s novel Devil in Silver as a limited series.
  • Dan Stevens stars as Pepper, a Queens moving man wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital where a horned devil is rumored to roam.
  • Early coverage praises Stevens’s intense performance and highlights the claustrophobic setting, with notable turns from Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Root, John Benjamin Hickey, and Michael Aronov.
  • Stevens said the show folds a slow-burn monster tale into a critique of American mental-health care, keeping the threat’s nature purposely ambiguous.