Evan has a problem with The Strain’s wasted potential! *Gasp!* What? Again?! This week on The Strain we have episode 10, “Loved Ones”, providing, in some capacity, what I pretty much wanted in the first place. We have our gathering…
TV Review: The Strain 1×9, “The Disappeared”
This summer’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 is one of the worst offenders I’ve ever seen of plot convenience (as has been detailed over the internet since its Blu-ray release), but in terms of a plot-point-to-runtime ratio, this week’s episode of The…
TV Review: The Strain 1×8, “Creatures of the Night”
If there was any episode of this show so far to mark with a SPOILER ALERT, this would probably be it. That’s my indication of saying this week’s installment of The Strain was actually worth watching to preserve such a…
TV Review: The Strain 1×7, “For Services Rendered”
The Strain’s Episode 7 has the most interesting opening of them all. We see a new guy introduced who doesn’t feel suddenly out of place or forced, but directly related to characters we’ve already seen, namely the lawyer Joan Luss,…
TV Review: The Strain 1×6 “Occultation”
They should have gotten Alfonso Cuarón to direct the opening shot of the eclipse over earth for this episode, but then they would have blown their whole season budget. Remember how with the last two weeks of The Strain I had…
TV Review: The Strain 1×5 “Runaways”
This week’s fifth episode of The Strain suffers from the exact thing I detailed in last week’s recap of “It’s Not For Everyone,” specifically about its attempts to balance so many characters that the episode feels like it is wandering.…
This Month in Books: August 2014
It looks like we’ve got another batch of great releases coming out this month! First of all, three amazing series are ending! The Lux series by the wonderful Jennifer L. Armentrout has been one of my favorites ever since Obsidian,…