The Terror returns with a new standalone story
“We all got our demons, don’t we?” The question sets the tone for The Terror: Devil in Silver, airing at 9pm on Sky Atlantic. This third standalone story in The Terror anthology series is set in an understaffed, underfunded and quite possibly cursed psychiatric hospital.
Dan Stevens stars as Peter “Pepper” Coffin, who has been wrongfully committed to the institution and is forced to reckon with its tatty malevolence. The narrative weaves between the patients’ past and present lives, connecting them through the sinister Dr Walter (John Benjamin Hickey), who may just be the key to the whole mystery.
Horror with a subtle edge
The series doesn’t lack jump-scares but also generates a subtler, more genuinely unsettling ambient hum of horror, according to the review.
More to watch this evening
On Sky Nature at 6pm, Violent Earth begins with an episode about terrifying tornadoes. Presented by actor Liev Schreiber, the intense new series explores the science behind natural disasters, featuring first-hand footage and eyewitness accounts.
ITV1’s Force of Nature at 7pm tackles extreme heat, dramatising how the climate crisis affects animals, from increased drought to wildfires. A wombat in Australia, a leopard in Zambia and a kangaroo rat in Arizona find themselves in their own mini disaster movies.
BBC Four at 8pm offers Mozart at the Proms, with the Third Horn Concerto featuring soloist Felix Klieser, plus Symphony No 35, the “Haffner”. The programme also includes pieces by Elgar, Britten and Thea Musgrave’s Out of the Darkness concerto for bassoon, making its Proms debut.
The finale of The Piano airs at 9pm on Channel 4. Contestants include Grace, who lost her fingers after meningitis, Harri with a song inspired by his grandad, wildcard teen Sophie and “piano-breaker” Gabby. Jamie had earlier improvised from Claudia’s sung notes, and the final may require her help again.
ITV1’s One Dollar at 11.20pm sets up a tale with “no guns, no body” and a cast of suspects. As a dollar bill changes hands in a struggling rust belt town divided by culture and class, secrets emerge, with John Carroll Lynch, Leslie Odom Jr and Nathaniel Martello-White among the cast.
Film choice: H Is for Hawk
Now out on Netflix, H Is for Hawk adapts Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir. Claire Foy plays Macdonald, who, after her father (Brendan Gleeson) dies, decides to train a goshawk, described as “a perfectly evolved psychopath” by her mentor. The drama explores the tug between connecting with nature and avoiding the messier realities of being human, as confronting avian life proves different from dealing with grief. An arresting, affecting drama.
