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The Strain makes progress. . "Fort Defiance", last night's episode of The Strain, was technically over an hour again, but this time by only two minutes. And what a difference it made! It's almost like I...

Infecting the infected is easier said than done. . In yet another installment of The Strain, a lot of shit happens and yet none of it seems to matter. And somehow, this episode was over an...

A vampire turf war? . The Strain's second season premiered on Sunday, with the airing of "BK, NY". Like the first season's "Night Zero", it was longer than an hour. Also like "Night Zero", it didn't...

It's the final countdown. . This is the final recap of The Strain's first season. Find out below what I think of how the season finished. And if you're just joining me, you can read through the rest of...

The apocalypse escalates. . This is the third recap of The Strain's first season in anticipation of the show's return on Sunday. The show has generally gotten slightly better as it moves along. See what...

Love is our downfall. . I'll be reviewing Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse's The Strain every week when it returns to FX for its second season next week. In anticipation of that, since we weren't...

Wow, that felt really good to get off my chest. . Since "Blaine's World" was the last episode of the season, I'm going to be discussing not just the episode in itself, but the first season of iZombie as...

A penultimate episode that doesn't stand on its own. I suspect I might be in the minority here, but I thought "Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat" was a mediocre episode of iZombie. Which is not to...

You are what you eat. . For me, "Astroburgers" is a tale of two episodes of television. As a stand-alone, it was excellent, pulling off a twist at the end worthy of The Usual Suspects or The Sixth...

iZombie rages out. iZombie has morphed into a better show. To be fair, the transformation wasn't instantaneous – it's actually been improving pretty consistently for a few weeks now. It's been building to...