Several months ago, I wrote an article on whether or not FX had found scary success in bringing The Strain to the small screen. At the time, I thought it might be gold for the netw…
American Horror Story triumphantly returns for its fourth season in a side show in Juniper, Florida and while the Monster Among Us was slow to start, it quickly introduced the show…
“The King In Yellow,” by Robert W. Chambers, is a collection of short stories about various characters driven insane after reading a play by the same name. Some stories aren’t as d…
Abraham Setrakian's backstory remains one of the more interesting plot elements in The Strain, but "Last Rites" showed that The Strain works better when other story elements take p…
"The Third Rail" had all the scary, tense moments in it that drew us to the show in the first place, but those moments only serve to highlight the parts holding the show back (i.e …
The past couple episodes of The Strain, pardon the pun, have been straining under the double chore of balancing a human story and horror story, but "Loved Ones" demonstrated that t…
Based on previous episodes, background chatter, and noises New York City should be under a vampiric siege, but instead we got Dr. Martinez being annoying, Eph almost losing his hai…
The homage to The Mist in"Creatures of the Night," episode 8 of The Strain, was fun, however, the episode served only to eliminate one character from the team and to add two more. …
"For Services Rendered" finds The Strain creeping, and creepily, towards the inevitable vampiric epidemic all wrapped around a background of Nazis and the Holocaust.…
At first, I groaned when I heard ANOTHER vampire show was coming to TV. Modern vampires are generations removed from their horror counterparts. Vampires have been roommates with a …