“My Perfect World” is the seventh episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “Taizo“. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.

Note. This article contains some spoilers about “My Perfect World”.

While Yuko Tanabe (Kiki Sukezane) possesses a doctor to fix her body, Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) receives a package containing the letters he sent to Luz Ojeda (Cristina Rodlo) and decides he can’t stay in the internment camp. Several people at the camp fell ill, including the doctors, but Major Bowen has no intention of doing anything, so Ken Uehura (Christopher Naoki Lee) turns to extreme means to help them.

After an episode focused on the supernatural element, “My Perfect World” returns to mix it with the historical element in different subplots which, however, seemed to me to be to have little balance. Once again I had the impression that there wasn’t enough time to develop all the important moments of the episode. As a consequence, it gave me the feeling of a set of fragments put together to show what’s considered significant.

The possessions made by Yuko Tanabe during the episode are the crudest scenes but leave the doubt about the very different treatment of the possessed men. Perhaps the reasons for these behaviors will be revealed but in the end they seem made more than anything else to have some scene of pure horror. In my opinion, the opening scene is by far the best.

Chester Nakayama seems to have become Rambo judging by his actions in the first part of “My Perfect World”. His story is still linked to Luz Ojeda’s but this episode adds a new twist to it. It could be the key in the season finale but at this point I’m no longer surprised by any new revelations so I just wait for further developments.

In the part set in the internment camp with the problem of a disease that is spreading, I had the greatest impression of a compressed subplot. The problem of the spread of diseases in internment camps is important but in “My Perfect World” it seems just an excuse to tell something else about some characters. This includes the recordings of Major Bowen’s activities, an element that diverts the attention even more.

Ken Uehura decides to take matters into his own hands after Major Bowen refuses to do anything for the sick people. His role is crucial but in the end it’s Amy Yoshida (Miki Ishikawa) who is the protagonist. With so many characters that are too often overlooked, Amy is the pleasant exception since I think she’s the most develop character even though she often had little screen time. In this sense, it seems to me that that this subplot sums up all this season’s merits and flaws with the clash between Ken Uehura which is reduced to the bare minimum while Amy’s participation is in the spotlight.

Overall, “My Perfect World” left me with some doubts about the way it was made. It’s not a real surprise because in the previous episodes certain parts already seemed compressed but with three episodes left to broadcast, my negative impression is increased. I hope the season finale will not have a hasty development.

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