The Strain

A superb drama, fantasy, horror series by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. I loved its uncompromising vibe and atmosphere, its "gruesome" screenplay, its near outstanding development and to some great extents its acting, besides Corey Stoll and Max charles who nearly undermined the series flow, especially in the last season.

One of the few series that truly combines horrific screenplay, storyline plots and gripping visual effects since the first episode.

Highly recommended and one of Guillermo del Toro's brightest and finest works.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 7.5
• Development: 8.5
• Realism: 7.5
• Entertainment: 8.5
• Acting: 7.5
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 9
• VFX: 8
• Music/score/sound: 8
• Depth: 7
• Logic: 5.5
• Flow: 8
• Drama/fantasy/horror: 7.5
• Ending: 7.

Yes, it has its flaws. It's full of plot holes and annoying over-used tropes. Yes, the kid character is incredibly annoying but I guess he drives the plot forward. Yes, the actor playing the kid is terrible and only has two emotions: Squinting with his mouth closed and squinting with his mouth open. Yes, in classic horror movie fashion everybody takes horrible decisions, they don't make sure their mortal enemy is actually dead, they go on silly speeches before going for the kill, allowing the antagonist to escape.

But overall, it was pretty enjoyable and different.

Great acting, apart from the kid.

7/10.

You will enjoy this show if you 1. are living in 70s 2. can put your common logic on hold 3. horror genre fanatic regardless of the plot holes

in all cases otherwise, you will not! there are holes after holes but the worst is switching " A WHOLE KID" from a sweet boy to someone you want to smack for no reason!

Some other worthy of mention are . 1.An all powerful master often hires petty humans to do simple chores. 2. A very important coffin once destroyed turns out to be of no consequence. 3. The age old holocaust clichés, like seriously. how long are they going to milk this goat? 4. No one has a clue for a long long time and then all of a sudden the whole world knows and the mighty USA deploys 200 troops to protect the 2nd largest city in the world. 5. There are needless scenes after scenes that have no connection to the ongoing plot. Quite obviously they are having difficulty filling a 50 minutes episode.

Plot holes are not where it stops, some of the main actors should have been sucked out by the master just on poor performance. ie Dutch, the kid, (they will do wonderful as dumb vampires.)

Its a good plot being ravaged by below average writers. Hope del toro is taking note of this.

Everyone is so right about the kid. The kid from the first season is okay but the new kid actor they got after him ruined the show!! He's a terrible actor i'm sorry :(

I originally joined the series in 2015, watching the first two seasons. I enjoyed it..... enough.... to continue through the 3rd season when it was released.

Many folks complain about the actor who portrayed Zack. Yes, the actor was not the best, however, the actor was not the main problem. It's the character. What an absolutely stupid kid! His character and character choices are so poorly written. The actions he makes, which do drive the story forward, could have EASILY been written for anyone of the 'bad guys'.

When S:4 was released, I didn't even watch. I had no desire to.

However, here I am in 2024 on S:4,E1 giving it a shot.

I am already annoyed with Zack....