The Strain (FX Series)
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 6:48 pm
If you've not heard of this show, it's on FX. The premise is that an airliner from Europe lands with 206 of the passengers dead and four survivors. Onboard was an unlisted box covered in raised death motifs containing soil--or rather, something inside the soil. What's odd is that the dead are completely exsanguinated (i.e., sucked dry of blood), there's some sort of organic substance on the bodies that fluoresces under black light, an overwhelming smell of ammonia, and there are worms found in the cargo hold. Transparent worms that also infest the dead passengers and feed on hemoglobin (that's the iron-carrying substance in blood). Unfortunately the dead don't stay that way. Even bits and pieces, like, say, the heart (watch the first episode and you'll see what I mean).
Obviously it's a vampire show and one I have to give the creators and original author of the novel A's for originality for. Vampires as literal parasites, worm-like protrusions to suck blood instead of old-hat fangs, some real science behind what's going on. Personally, this is the first real vampire show I've taken seriously since Twilight; no shiny vampires here, just the ugliness of the old legends.
Obviously it's a vampire show and one I have to give the creators and original author of the novel A's for originality for. Vampires as literal parasites, worm-like protrusions to suck blood instead of old-hat fangs, some real science behind what's going on. Personally, this is the first real vampire show I've taken seriously since Twilight; no shiny vampires here, just the ugliness of the old legends.