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- FX
- Aug 28, 2016
- FX
- Aug 28, 2016
Summary Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) and the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City investigate a mysterious virus that may have roots to something ancient and deadly.
Created By: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
- FX
- Aug 28, 2016
- FX
- Aug 28, 2016
Summary Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll) and the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City investigate a mysterious virus that may have roots to something ancient and deadly.
Created By: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
62
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Even the third episode, which is loaded with a lot of backstory origin material about Quinlan’s past, doesn’t get bogged down. When it’s good, The Strain moves as quickly as those long, creepy tongues that burst out of the strigoi’s mouths to suck your blood.
Out of the corner of your eye, The Strain almost looks like a real show. [19/26 Aug 2016 p.106]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
7.8
73% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
21% Mixed
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6% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
7.8
73% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
21% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
6% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
The downside of critics only getting to see the first three eps of each season is that, as with the two previous seasons, they don't get to see how nutso badass things get by the end, especially with a season like this that keeps growing more epic in scale and dystopian in tone. We're not exactly getting Aaron Sorkin level character work here, but this season explored even more backstories on its already existing characters, making us care not just for the villain(s), but even the Hispanic guy who I finally actually started to feel deserved a part in this show in the first place (but I do mostly agree with other users- we could totally lose him and it wouldn't matter). This season actually makes a love triangle (of all cliche things) work, and as with earlier seasons dabbles in the whole "conflicted with still caring for loved ones even after they've been transformed into hideous vampire creatures" thing that would have just come across as flat out stupid in a dumber show, but mostly kind of works here (though you'll be pushed to those boundaries of acceptance in the final stretch of the season finale). I go with a high score for season 3 because all the disgusting worm-laden bloody nastiness and boat-loads of bad-ass violence and action make this show just too damn rad to not recommend!
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SEASON 3
I like this show, it keeps me interested and on the edge of my seat. Can't wait to find out what they will do with the Master when he is found, will he the one doctor take the book to the master to get his son back or what can't wait to find out.
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SEASON 3
Still very much the thrill-a-minute lovechild of a macabre master and a novelist with a pronounced knack for the nasty, The Strain remains a juicy, pulpy, often delectable piece of summer programming in season 3.
The show is now basically a giddily graphic war-zone melodrama, with a quarantined Manhattan a new Ground Zero as embattled humans face an ancient evil. [22 Aug - 4 Sep 2016, p.16]
Ultimately, instead of finding our characters at the start of a new chapter, we find them somehow regressed back to what is essentially same old, same old and the first three episodes are spent catching up instead of moving forward. The rest of the gang is diverted by cumbersome subplots.
This has been the weakest season of 'The Strain'. Most of it was filler. The latino subplot was pointless (fast forwarded through after ep. 4). The storyline with Ef and the woman was practically pointless, stretched out, and predicable. The flashbacks - all pointless. Fast forwarding through all the pointless filler made it a little better but the last episode was the only one worth watching in its entirety. Almost nothing happened this season. This show has two episodes in season 4 to prove its back on track. Otherwise, I'm tuning out...
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SEASON 3
This is a tough show. On one hand, by season three, you've invested a considerable amount of time in things, and the show does maintain continuity, so the ending is in sight. On the other hand, since season two, The Strain has gotten a little less interesting with every passing episode. The characters are not particularly enjoyable to spend time with, and nothing new or surprising happens, or is likely to happen again before the show is over. I think there's a real possibility that by the final episode, I will have gone from watching The Strain, to hate-watching The Strain.
Under normal circumstances, I'd lodge a complaint about the fact that the show has turned into a major sausage festival, and is now basically a story about a bunch of stressed white guys who run around yelling and fighting at and about things - a concept we've pretty much done to death over the course of recent human history. Except there's no point, in this case, because The Strain's female characters are just as boring and unlikable as the male characters. But, you know, if you're so strident of a feminist that you'll even champion the right of women to **** equally, then you might be a little bugged with where this show has gone with its lady parts.
TL;DR: The Strain has gone from being a show you actually watch, attentively, to being the kind of thing you put on screen two in the background, while you're playing video games.
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SEASON 3
