The Strain (1 Viewer)

[pete]

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starting on Sunday. Reading the first book now and it's alllllright.

 

[MacDara]

Read about this in SFX last night, looks decent enough but I'm getting pretty tired of new shows either a) being shite or b) being pretty good yet not getting renewed (looking at you, Alphas).

 

[pete]

it has a lot of potential to be completely crap

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Looks like Kevin Durand in there

 

[pete]

Well this definitely was not as awful as it could have been.

 

[dunderhead]

yeah, enjoying this. second episode was not as loaded as the pilot which is to be expected but will be sticking with it. loved the last scene in the second episode

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Just watched the first episode and really enjoyed it. Silly as hell, yes, but there's plenty of recognisable del Toro elements to enjoy - science and occultism, mysterious old dudes with dark pasts, cool monsters etc. I'm gonna drop the dour and boring The Leftovers and stick with this instead.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

fuck, I wish i'd never been made aware that the main guy is totally bald in real life. I can't help fixating on his terrible wig

 

[David Kronenbourg]

episode 2 is very good. loving the Nazi fuck, the old Jew and the Russian health inspector.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Loving this stuff. Third episode is great. The fucked up Nazi vampire monster posing as a human is my favourite character, the actor playing him is wonderfully creepy, followed closely by the rat catcher.

 

[pete]

The book is better.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Anyone else still watching this? I watched episodes 4 and 5 back to back last night. This is the good shit!

 

[tim]

Just finished episode 4.

It's very silly and fun and never boring. Some of the acting and dialogue is the pits but whatever.

 

[tim]

P.S

Walter Frey is very good as the pawn shop owner.

 

[Unicron]

I've watched it all since Saturday.

It's terribly made, poorly acted, utterly ridiculous, and yet I'm really enjoying it.

 

[tim]

The end of the latest episode was crazy. This show just keeps on giving.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Latest episode has been the best so far. The evil Nazi fuck is the best villain I’ve seen in a while. And, yeah the ending was a total WTF moment.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

So, we're recommending this?

Is it a shlock fest?

 

[Unicron]

Latest episode has been the best so far. The evil Nazi fuck is the best villain I’ve seen in a while. And, yeah the ending was a total WTF moment.

Yes, really tense, wasn't sure how it was going to play out.

 

[tim]

So, we're recommending this?

Is it a shlock fest?

Yeah I'm recommending it and I usually exclusively watch HBO stuff, with a few exceptions here and there.

There's a lot of shlock but it's never slow or boring. And while it jumps around to a wide variety of main characters, unlike other shows I never feel: "uggghhhhhh we have to spend time with this dipshit now".

And this is coming from someone who loathes the Walking Dead.