‘The Strain’ 2.06 Recap: “I Love a Good Scuffle
This week’s episode of ‘The Strain’ amounts to a series of missed opportunities. I’m having a really hard time understanding the point of a lot of the show’s storylines this season.
This week’s episode of ‘The Strain’ amounts to a series of missed opportunities. I’m having a really hard time understanding the point of a lot of the show’s storylines this season.
Question: Do we really believe it was the plan all along for Eph on ‘The Strain’ to dramatically shave his head a season and a half into the show, or do we think star Corey Stoll just got sick of wearing that ridiculou...
Amazingly, ‘The Strain’ did something really daring and interesting this week. Without any introduction or context at all, the episode opened with five minutes worth of scenes from an old black-and-white Mexican wrestl...
If I got nothing else out of this week’s episode of ‘The Strain’, at least I finally know that the leader of the vampire commandos is named “Vaun” – not “Quinlan,” as he’s still cred...
Because I’m pretty ambivalent about ‘The Strain’ at all, I have to say that I find it really annoying that FX is super-sizing episodes this season to 75 or 90 minutes – especially when most of that difference is ...
Four years after ‘Rescue Me’ went off the air, Denis Leary returns to the FX network with a new series. Although ‘Sex&Drug&Rock&Roll’ is a half-hour comedy rather than an hour drama, the show wa...
The first season of Guillermo del Toro’s vampire apocalypse series ‘The Strain’ was, let’s be honest, often a strain to watch. The show was uneven at best and never lived up to its potential. Nevertheless, ...
With an episode appropriate titled ‘Curtain Call’, the fourth season of ‘American Horror Story’ finally drew to a close last week. This not only marks the end of the ‘Freak Show’ storyline, but ...
It’s the penultimate episode of ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’, which can only mean that the plot twists and character deaths are coming at a rapid pace now.
For at least a couple of weeks, Neil Patrick Harris joins the cast of ‘American Horror Story’ in an attempt to liven up the end of the season a little. From what we’ve seen so far, his character may be the bigges...
Admittedly, I’m a little late in writing a recap for an episode of ‘American Horror Story’ that aired back on December 17th. The holidays were a busy time and I’ve only just now gotten around to watching it...
I’ve mentioned a bunch of times already during ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ that I haven’t bought into the decision to make spoiled rich crybaby Dandy Mott the primary villain for the season. Now tha...