This week’s fifth episode of The Strain suffers from the exact thing I detailed in last week’s recap of “It’s Not For Everyone,” specifically about its attempts to balance so many characters that the episode feels like it is wandering.…
TV Review: The Strain 1×4 “It’s Not for Everyone”
When this episode began, I wished it featured the episode’s title in its credits as Ephraim Goodweather performed his autopsy of Del Toro’s biological hot mess of a vampire, because calling this episode of The Strain “It’s Not for…
The Strain 1×3 “Gone Smooth”
Now we’re getting somewhere. Where last week we dealt with a slew of cliches, this week’s episode of The Strain gave us some higher quality melodrama, but also successfully fleshed out some vampire moments it had been building up to.…
TV Review: The Strain 1×2 “The Box”
The second episode of The Strain did a select number of fascinating things, while achieving equal amounts of cliches that put a strain on my brain. Speaking of which, I forgot to mention that last week’s premiere episode, “Night Zero,”…
TV Review: FX’s The Bridge 2×2, “Ghost of a Flea”
At this point, if you walk into a random apartment that supposedly houses a person connected to drug cartels, but that person has been replaced by some kind of foul odor, it should probably be assumed a dead body is…
TV Review: The Strain Premiere 1×1 “Night Zero”
Let’s get this out of the way: Corey Stoll’s wig is slightly ridiculous, and we need to get beyond that to enjoy the murderously intricate toy box that is Guillermo Del Toro’s The Strain. I’ll try not to bring it up…
TV Review: FX’s The Bridge 2×1, “Yankee”
Many times there are just things you do not expect to see. Lyle Lovett serving as the first character we see in this second season of FX’s The Bridge, moments before we follow him into a house soaked in blood,…