How lonely is The Terror: Infamy’s Luz, an outcast among outcasts?

Who didn’t feel for Luz in The Terror: Infamy? In a world of outcasts, she remains a complete outsider. Just how lonely must she feel?

It’s hard to pick one person out of all those in The Terror: Infamy to feel the most for. However, it has to be Luz. The more I think of it, the more my heart goes out for her. She must be so lonely as an outcast among the outcasts.

This is a woman that was never part of Chester’s full life. She didn’t know Chester’s parents, and it was only when the internment began that Chester even opened up to his mom about Luz. He ran off in search for her, intended on getting away with her to raise their baby together. In the end, Chester was caught and he didn’t go back to the internment camp alone.

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Luz chose to return with him. She made a choice to go there to have her baby, knowing the baby would likely be taken off her once born. After all, despite her Mexican heritage, there would be no hiding the Japanese heritage. Luz walked away from everything she knew after already being kicked out by her father because of the pregnancy, and now she was thrown into a culture she didn’t know, surrounded by people who didn’t want her there.

This just adds another layer to the terror that was the Japanese internment camps. It adds another layer of terror to what is immigration, culture, and acceptance. Despite being outcasts, the Japanese women couldn’t even consider letting Luz into their circles. Already an outcast for being Mexican and having a relationship with a Japanese man, she continued to be an outcast among the people she chose to find a home with.

You’d expect some of this from the mean girls. There are always bullies around, who decide to pick on people because they’re different or don’t follow the social norm. While these types of people would get to Luz on a superficial level, it’s not them that would make her feel so horribly lonely.

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Chester and Amy’s mothers are the ones to make her feel worse. They’re the ones who keep her at a distance. Chester’s mother especially would make Luz feel lonelier than ever. Luz has no family of her own around. She’d be reaching out for the baby’s paternal grandparents. While Henry has his reasons not to welcome her in right now, for Asako it’s only about cultural expectations and beliefs.

Amy had the perfect line in one of the opening scenes to show just how mean the mothers were being. Luz didn’t have to come to the internment camp. She could have got away and even possibly avoided her baby being taken away from her. Instead, she chose to come to the camp and be by Chester’s side. She chose to put herself in the same hell that the Japanese would find themselves in. Doesn’t that mean something?

After this, I’m so glad that we got to see Amy befriend Luz. This is a relationship that needs to develop more. Amy may not be Chester’s sister, but she is like a sister to him. Now she gets to be like a sister to Luz in The Terror: Infamy.

Stop Luz feeling like lonely as an outcast in the sea of outcasts. They are all in this together and need to stick together during it.

What would you like to see in the future of The Terror: Infamy? What do you think of Luz’s storyline? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

The Terror: Infamy airs on Mondays at 9/8c on AMC.