The Strain - The Official Thread

[pickles]

 

[satam55]

IGN discussion:

 

[ORDER_66]

Im kinda over the whole vampire thing....

They are parasitic vampires that moves from host to hosts infecting normal humans. they are not ordinary... nothing about this is ordinary... what makes it worse is that they're might not be a cure if your infected with the shyt. I do wanna know where contact zero came from, what the fukk is it, and who made that box for him???

 

[TheNatureBoy]

bump for the premiere tonight.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

FX must be confdent in this if they are showing it on SUndays

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

damn its about vampires? was interested in some disease type shyt until i read that part

 

[FlyRy]

FX must be confdent in this if they are showing it on SUndays

those were my iniitial thoughts as well..but this there's really not much its going up against this time a year.

people are still not sure of what to make of the leftovers

and masters of sex has somewhat of a niche following..im excited for it thought

AV club gave it a C+ for the premiere and ign 7.4 ..i'll still peep though

and 71 on metacritic

 

[newarkhiphop]

damn its about vampires? was interested in some disease type shyt until i read that part

It's your normal true blood / teen vamp movie, there doing it as disease so the transformation to a vampire is slow, I've heard nothing but good stuff about it

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

It's your normal true blood / teen vamp movie, there doing it as disease so the transformation to a vampire is slow, I've heard nothing but good stuff about it

i'll probably give it a shot just based on the disease part of it

 

[newarkhiphop]

i'll probably give it a shot just based on the disease part of it

Good long read on the show
http://www.theverge.com/entertainment/2014/7/12/5892171/Guillermo-del-Toro-Strain-review

It's taken almost a decade, but Guillermo del Toro finally has his chance to call a mulligan on the civilized millennial vampire. In the prolific monster maker's first TV show, The Strain, vampires don't look like pop stars and sip blood from champagne flutes; they rip your throat out, and probably your dog's throat too. They secrete weird ooze and grow reptilian body parts. It feels like one long rebuttal to most every vampire to appear on-screen, from Bill Compton to Edward Cullen to Dracula himself. The show, which airs on Sunday, is a hyper-pulpy attempt to merge crime drama and body horror — sometimes too pulpy, if you have a low tolerance for things like literal vampire-zombie-Nazis.

It feels like a mischaracterization to even call The Strain's monsters vampires in the first place — one scene of a struggling beast chained up in a shed would be right at home in28 Days Later, and a gleeful autopsy reveals the kind of slimy, reptilian innards that would make del Toro's hero H.R. Giger proud. In The Strain, every revelation about the vampires is coupled with a pseudoscientific explanation; it's by far the most inventive thing about the show, and del Toro's been marinating on it for quite some time. As he told theWall Street Journal recently, he's been collecting vampire myths since he was a child, cataloging different cultures' beliefs, from the hairless vampire to the one with a spike under its tongue. As an obsessive and a nerd, this is his chance to explain how any of those traits could exist, sci-fi style.

 

[5StarElite]

bump for the premiere tonight.

 

[mson]

Who's watching tonight?

 

[satam55]

Who's watching tonight?

There's already a thread: http://www.thecoli.com/threads/first-full-trailer-for-fxs-the-strain.217955/

 

[satam55]

bump

 

[mson]

There's already a thread: http://www.thecoli.com/threads/first-full-trailer-for-fxs-the-strain.217955/

I thought it was just for the trailer.