He’s a gross little man in the show too, and still gay, but in the book it goes out of the way to note that he is a pedophile and his partner is coded as developmentally disabled and therefore easy for Hickey to manipulate. It really does take a straight man to put two gay couples in his novel and then portray them both in two very different, but still bad ways. Furthermore, the racism in the show is predominantly the racism of 1800s British sailors, the actual dealing with indigenous culture in the show is, as a whole, much less unabashedly fetishizing and creepy as comes across in the book.
Silna/Lady Silence, the only woman of color, in the book is mute and never speaks, in the show she is given the ability to speak until she becomes mute of her own volition. While there are only three female character in the show, the show does a much better job of giving them agency. There are also two widely unnecessary sex scenes, one uncomfortable to the point of nervous laughter and one just flat out gross. It is particularly fetishistic towards the indigenous woman character as Dimmons seems to enjoy writing about them nude. “The Terror” book is many times more sexist, racist and homophobic than the AMC adaptation. I then made the unfortunate mistake of reading the book. When I went looking to read “The Terror” after having watched the AMC miniseries I was greeted by reviews on the Amazon page saying how much better the book was than the show. The fatal expedition that we’re still piecing together what happened to. “The Terror” is an AMC show and book by Dan Simmons that is a fictionalized take on what happened to Franklin’s lost expedition.
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