What’s on TV

THE TERROR 9 p.m. on AMC. In the second season of this anthology series, the horror of Japanese-American internment camps in World War II is mixed with a ghost story influenced by the Japanese folkloric tradition of kaidan. Set mostly in an internment camp, the season stars the actor Derek Mio as Chester, an American-born California college student who is forced into the camp along with his family. The plot involves a series of mysterious deaths. Among the ensemble is an elder played by George Takei, the “Star Trek” actor who as a child was among the roughly 120,000 West Coast Japanese-Americans who were forced into camps as a result of racist anti-espionage measures enacted after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “This project is groundbreaking in that the story of the internment of Japanese-Americans is being told on this scale, this scope, for the first time” on TV, Takei recently told The New York Times. “It’s massive, 10 hours, 10 episodes and in such depth — the characters are examined in depth.”

OUR BOYS 9 p.m. on HBO. The 2014 killing of the Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir, in the wake of the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers, set off a conflict in Gaza that resulted in many more deaths and hardships. This 10-part series dramatizes the investigation into Khdeir’s murder, and explores how a pair of grim events snowballed.