Martin Carr reviews the season four – and series – finale of The Strain…  That things come to an end is a fact of life. Most serials never have a best-selling source material or guaranteed audience, relying solely on the fickle nature of television audiences. Others are lucky enough to have someone like Guillermo del […]

Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of The Strain season 4… As we near the end of a four-year odyssey there are layered dialogue scenes, moral questions on both sides about bearing the blame and slicing and dicing aplenty. As we watch ‘The Master’s final trump card being played, disciples being interrogated and megaton bombs […]

Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Strain season 4… Three episodes from the end of a four year run and someone has put their foot down. Drawing together multiple threads in a seamless manner guaranteed to have audiences cheering and offering up opportunities for serious arse kicking antics to boot. High octane, low […]

Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of The Strain season 4… Lovelorn, love lost, love squandered and relationships shattered define episode six of this final season mid-point. Cat and mouse car chases across country with trigger happy snipers on guard, stand between salvation and disaster in the shape of an airfield exit. Throw in some […]

Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Strain season 4… Solid character scenes, period drama flashbacks and a moment or two of hard-core hand to hand atop moving vehicles, make this mid-season waypoint one of the best thus far. Moody camera colourisation and moments of a blossoming relationship in Edwardian London, hark back to […]

Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of The Strain season 4… Real menace can take any form. Understated, cold and calculating, supremely manipulative and smugly conceited are just a few traits which Richard Sammel has mastered. His theatricality in front of a make-up mirror, face offs against David Bradley’s Setrakian or subserviently grovelling before his […]

Martin Carr reviews the third episode of The Strain season 4… As an idea the concept of humanity bringing about its own destruction is nothing new. Superseded by a race of supposedly superior beings who see humans as nothing more than their own food source, brings about an interesting moral quandary. That nuclear deterrents and […]

Martin Carr reviews the second episode of The Strain season 4… Big Brother is definitely watching as this ashen grey, terracotta bleached depiction of an alternative world stretches its collective legs. With the onus on fertility clinics, concentration camp processing and blood donation, we continue straying into darker territory. Old friends are brought back and […]

Martin Carr reviews the season 4 premiere of The Strain… With a rosy nuclear winter turning daylight to permanent dusk, munchers walking the streets and Eldritch Palmer possessed things could be better. Manhattan is cloaked in a doom and gloom which extends beyond a lack of food, adequate sanitation and makeshift rationing centre. Humanity is […]

Martin Carr reviews the season 3 finale of The Strain… This is a finale in more than mere name. All bombast, hyper-reality and fisty cuffs at Mach five as an old man and even older bald fella with a sword battle each other Matrix style. Here then is the season closer for a series which […]