• TV Review – The Strain, Season 1, Episode 6

    Our favourite CDC investigator Dr. Eph is in trouble with the law this week, and with a solar eclipse shadowing New York City in darkness, there’s be nowhere to run from the infected… Warning: Spoilers follow! With last week’s episode “Runaways” ending with Dr. Ephraim being blamed for the death...
  • TV Review – The Strain, Episodes 4-5

    With the UK release of the fourth and fifth episodes, The Strain reaches its scariest senses yet, with even more frights as the infected become more sinister in presence, and higher in numbers… Warning: Spoilers follow! As the virus affects more and more people, we see more gore than before. Episode 4, “It’s...
  • TV Review – The Strain – First Impressions

    Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) and novelist Chuck Hogan have merged to create a masterpiece of a thriller in FOX’s The Strain, a televised adaptation of their co-authored trilogy of vampire novels released in 2009. This dark horror-drama follows an investigation into a mysterious virus that causes its...