The Strain Season 3
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It seems like the end for New York City: Its streets are run by strigoi, the government is on the verge of abandoning it, the blood factories Thomas Eicchorst (Richard Sammel) built are up and running, and the bioweapon Eph Goodweather (Corey Stoll) developed is losing its effectivity. Eph himself is sinking fast because of his recent losses. But even though the Master (Robin Atkin Downes) seems to have the upper hand, Quinlan (Rupert Penry-Jones) and Abraham Setrakian (David Bradley) have the Occido Lumen, a key to potentially defeating the Master and his strigoi once and for all. The third season of “The Strain” also stars Jonathan Hyde as Eldritch Palmer, Natalie Brown as Kelly Goodweather, Max Charles as Zach Goodweather, Joaquin Cosio as Angel Hurtado, Miguel Gomez as Gus Elizalde, Samantha Mathis as Justine Feraldo, Cas Anvar as Sanjay Desai, Kevin Durand as Fet, and Ruta Gedmintas as Dutch Velders.
Last week on The Strain, Central Park became a very crowded festival of vampiric activity, as the attack on the nest underground was a diversion meant to distract humanity’s war effort. The failure of the plan, devised by exterminating badass Vasily Fet, has lead to some further planning, and in the case of Fet himself, some more introspective thinking. Which leads to the meat and potatoes of tonight’s episode, “Collaborators,” which revealed the fact that Fet has a bit of a connection to none other than Herr Thomas Eichorst.
The prompting for all of this delving into the Fet family’s backstory is the payoff for a plot point we saw in a Season 1 episode of The Strain, entitled “Occultation.” Against Vasily’s very wishes, his father did not leave the city as he had implored, which lead to both his mother and father becoming infected — which also left the elder Fet with no choice but to kill himself and his wife. While Professor Setrakian tried to comfort Vasily with the fact that his father took “the soldier’s way out,” this caused our normally stone cold rat catcher to break down a bit.
– MIKE REYES
I’ve proclaimed that The Strain has become the best, dumbest version of itself so many times now — only to immediately get burned — that I wanted to hold off saying anything about season three until it was over.
But guess what? The Strain has never been as good as it was for the vast majority of its third season, which was mostly about the characters trying to hunt down a giant red worm. (Television!)
The season built logically to one final confrontation. It was packed with dramatic reversals. The frequent flashbacks to the characters’ past still felt a bit out of place, but at least they were better executed.
And the show was mercifully without many of the most revolting moments that had made earlier seasons an occasionally gruesome chore. It had, in short, figured out how to be the good kind of gory, rather than simply tossing gross situations at the audience for the sake of having gross situations.
All of that culminated in a season finale that seemed weirdly knowing about how the audience feels about the show — right down to having everybody’s least favorite character bring on the literal apocalypse because he’s being a shitty little baby. Even bigger spoilers than that one follow.
– Emily Todd VanDerWerff
DVD Wholesale Main Features :
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: June 27, 2017
Run Time: 440 minutes
ASIN: B01LTHO4L8
