TV Review: The Strain 2×05 “Quick and Painless”

Eph takes a trip to the strip club around the corner to prepare for his journey to Washington, to get a new identity of course. Eph assumes he’s taking his new family with him to DC, but Zack is insistent…

The Strain – Q&A with Miguel Gomez

After the airing of “The Silver Angel,” we got to have a talk with one of The Strain‘s series regulars, Miguel Gomez, about his character Gus: the ex-con who was the catalyst of The Master’s reign on Manhattan. Gomez can…

TV Review: The Strain 2×04 “The Silver Angel”

The episode’s opener is one of the most unique sequences that I’ve seen thus far on the show: a feature presentation of an old vampire film on tape starring a new character for the series who once went by the…

TV Review: The Strain 1×13, The Muppet – I mean, “The Master”

My opinion of your show doesn’t bode well if its season finale feels more like a pilot episode than the actual pilot episode. Maybe I’m so spoiled with high quality zombie/vampire lore in media that The Strain had no chance…

TV Review: The Strain 1×12, “Last Rites”

Character growth! Emotion! Backstory! “Penultimat-ion!” The Strain finally presents to us an episode that is worthwhile for reasons other than anticipation for effects sequences. Tragic and captivating are the words for our flashbacks to Abraham’s young adult life in “Last…