The Strain is een Amerikaanse horrorserie van de zender FX. De serie ging in première in 2014.
De serie vertelt het verhaal van Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, het hoofd van het Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. Hij en zijn team moeten de mysterieuze uitbraak van een virus dat vampirisme lijkt te veroorzaken, onderzoeken. Terwijl het virus zich verspreidt, moeten Eph en zijn team een oorlog uitvechten die het lot van de mensheid bepaalt.
If it's been accepted in music for a long time to have guilty pleasures, why can't we make that an official thing for series watching too? Then Grays Anatomy is my U Sure Do, Friday Night Lights my Club Tropicana and I now add The Strain to that list as my Never Gonna Give You up. Because let's be honest, it's not really all that good, but somehow I sat on the couch every Monday with a smile. If you don't like zombie-like figures who slurp the blood from their victims in a completely over the top way, then you can leave The Strain well, because that is exactly what it is. Growling, limping blood-guzzlers who, after a virus infection, cause an apocalypse with New York as the epic center. Of course there are also a number of people who try to suppress all this misery. You'll have to see for yourself whether that will work. Try to overlook the fact that director Guillermo del Toro - the director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy - does a very ridiculous impersonation of Evil, that the script rattles here and there more than my girlfriend's ovaries after watching again such a cute baby photo in her Facebook timeline and that this story has of course already been told in 100 other films and series, but then you have a great pastime with The Strain. But hey, I'm also going well on Rick Astley, so what does it all mean.
I don't understand that some are critical of the series. The atmosphere is good, the acting is good, the old man is fantastic. the flasbacks are great. the nazi vampire man is superb. the story is pretty good, the boxer is a lot of fun. yes sorry but it is just great.
It's kind of a combination of The Walking Dead and Blade, only with only vampires. I find it more exciting than The Walking Dead, there is a bit more happening. It starts with the outbreak of the "disease", slowly it becomes clearer how it arises, and what it does to the human body. You occasionally see through the whole series of flashbacks of the old man, how it all started in Romania. In addition, the story of the old sick man who has arranged everything so that the "father" Strigoi comes to New York and can do his thing. His motives are still unclear (just watched episode 12), that will probably become clearer in the 2nd season. And then you have a number of loose story lines of the group of people (including the CDC employee) who eventually come together, each living their own "normal" life. Until the hell breaks out. Kind of like walking dead. In the evening you can not safely walk on the street in the city because danger lurks everywhere. And we have the Spanish brothers who have their own storyline. All in all, there's enough going on to keep you interested, and each time you wonder what's going to happen next so that you turn on the next episode. So I don't understand why "Bagger" is being called, because it absolutely isn't. Otherwise no 8 on IMDB, and a 2nd season.
So far I think the series is easy to follow, the story is interesting and the players do their job well. The cliffhangers are such that you long for the next episode. Great work!!! from one of our favorite directors.