the most stressful part of waiting for The Announcement is dan and phil not having any concept of time. they don't fucking know what a week is. we're either gonna be waiting for 5 more months or 5 more hours
something about the first few episodes of the terror having so many numbers. the men, the provisions, the inventory; but also the tension of counting. the scene where goodsir takes a picture of john franklin and his men and he's counting down the seconds. the lashes being counted down during hickey's punishment. and something about how in later episodes, numbers get lost. dates get forgotten. counting just stops. all of it becomes insignificant. like it was a countdown at first but now the time is just running out instead