FX has released a promo for next week’s sixth episode of The Strain season 4, entitled ‘Tainted Love’; take a look below… SEE ALSO: The Strain Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘Belly of the Beast’ Fet and Quinlan have to figure out how to get the nuclear bomb back to New York, while a […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘Belly of the Beast’
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 […]
Promo for The Strain Season 4 Episode 5 – ‘Belly of the Beast’
FX has released a promo for the fifth episode of The Strain season 4, entitled ‘Belly of the Beast’; watch it below… SEE ALSO: The Strain Season 4 Episode 4 Review – ‘New Horizons’ Fet and Quinlan are hot on the trail of a convoy carrying their prized nuclear weapon. Eph and Alex search for […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 4 Review – ‘New Horizons’
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 […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 3 Review – ‘One Shot’
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 Superseded by a race of supposedly superior beings who see humans as nothing more than their own food source, brings about an interesting moral quandary.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 […]
Promo for The Strain Season 4 Episode 4 – ‘New Horizons’
FX has released a promo for the fourth episode of The Strain season, entitled ‘New Horizons; watch it below… Dutch is forced to make a deal with Desai while she plots to escape a strigoi breeding facility. Eph and Alex seek to uncover the dark secrets behind the Partnership’s new plan but face the repercussion […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Blood Tax’
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 […]
The Strain Season 4 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Worm Turns’
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 […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Fall’
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 […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 9 Review – ‘Do Or Die’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of The Strain season 3… The Strain is a pitch battle this week with stand up fights, swinging fists and artillery shells caught in slow motion arcs bouncing off concrete like Michael Bay choreographed pseudo gun porn. There are human moments and origin flashbacks but in the main we […]
