I’ve been an a harsh critic of The Strain over the past season. I’m the first to admit it. I scour through what others are writing about the series. It seems there are two camps wh…
The Strain seems to have regained new life somewhere around episode five. I wrote a piece a few weeks ago about straining to watch The Strain. Bad puns aside, it was pretty difficu…
Has The Strain turned a corner? One would say “yes” based on “Identity.” Yes, “Identity” had some problems. However, these problems were nothing other action/drama series don’t als…
The Strain is coming off a good episode (The Silver Angel) and it seemed to carry some of its momentum into “ Quick and Painless.”
I have to give credit to any series that recre…
Did the show runners of The Strain read our articles? Were they inspired by our ideas? Did they see what was going wrong and decided to change course mid-season?
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“Fort Defiance” may be the best episode of The Strain since the first episodes of season one. However, for everything it did right there was much that was wrong.
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My father once said, “Son, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all” and then, later, he started cracking on the next door neighbors. My take away from this, other…
When the curtains fell on last season it seemed that all hell was descending on New York City, but in "BK, NY" everything seems big city normal; people are going to work, realtors …
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…
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…