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: Sons of Anarchy 7×04 – “Poor Little Lambs”

It looks like we’re finally getting to the point in this season of Sons of Anarchy where stuff is really going to start happening, and I’m guessing it’s going to start happening fast. Tonight’s episode definitely had a strong theme guiding it:…

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…

TV Review: Sons of Anarchy 7×03 – “Playing with Monsters”

Now that we’ve got a pretty good feel for the tone of the final season of Sons of Anarchy (dark and darker), this week we were finally given an episode that starts on a lighter note. The episode begins with all of…

TV Review: The Strain 1×11, “The Third Rail”

I’m not sure what’s going on anymore. I understand that Guillermo Del Toro is a special effects master. So what the hell, if I may so crudely ask, happened with The Master? There are a couple of classic stories in…

TV Review: Sons of Anarchy, Season 7 Episode 2 – “Toil and Till”

Last week’s premiere of Sons of Anarchy, “Black Widower,” was the most watched program in the history of FX with 9.25 million total viewers, and it ranked as cable’s number 2 scripted series of 2014, just below The Walking Dead (and ahead…

TV Review: The Strain 1×10, “Loved Ones”

Evan has a problem with The Strain’s wasted potential! *Gasp!* What? Again?! This week on The Strain we have episode 10, “Loved Ones”, providing, in some capacity, what I pretty much wanted in the first place. We have our gathering…