Based on Dan Simmons' celebrated novel of the same name, AMC's The Terror never seemed ideal for a second season. The book has no sequels, and the tale leaves most of its characters dead, broken, or lost; but with a horror hit on their hands, AMC wisely dug into the core tenets of the series -- the ripe meeting ground between history and horror, humanity and monsters -- to build the title into an anthology series. The second installment takes place in California during World War II, where we witness the Nakayama family’s devastation after the tragedy at Pearl Harbor …