This week’s episode of The Strain brings the war to Central Park.
Here is our review…
ThisThe Strainreview contains spoilers.
Kill lots and lots of munchers.
And I mean theres a lot of strigoi under Central Park.
Like, theres more strigoi than pigeons.
Theres more strigoi than dudes selling pretzels or gyros.
Theres more strigoi than hipsters with Fitbits.
Thats a lot of strigoi, innit?
The episode also does a good job manipulating the viewer.
Hmm, not so fast.
Fet has some more assets.
While Fet is underground, he runs across a group of conscripted cons charged with clearing the tunnels.
Of course, this crew is made up of Gus, Angel, and those two asshole bully cops.
Gus also meets a potential love interest this week.
He is teamed with a young Hispanic woman who is also conscripted to wipe the tunnels.
Gus gets all protective over his new charge and makes himself a human shield for his new friend.
The Fabulous Freebirds got nothing on these guys!
It should have been a glorious moment.
Silver raining down on a humongous nest of strigoi, burning, killing, slaying any parasite it touches.
But sadly, the strigoi were one step ahead.
As Central Park is cleared, so is the New York underground.
Tens of thousands of strigoi surface to take down every police checkpoint and overrun New York.
Fet and company won a battle, but while they were underground, the strigoi started a new war.
This is going to get ugly.
Eph and Dutch also get involved in this chaos.
These two broken thinkers are still a blast to watch work together.
The pair set up a station to examine the strigoi communication within the ginormous nest.
Its all engineering and science until Fet discovers a book that was left behind by Ephs son Zach.
Eph and Dutch race to find Zach.
Remember, the boy has been held by his strigoi mom and Eichhorst all season.
Its never good when your son is abducted by a Nazi vampire.
Could that be a little hint that Zach is being prepared to be the Masters new vessel?
Not sure why the Master would want an adolescent asthmatic as his new body.
Speaking of hands, thats exactly what Eichhorst loses to Dutchs sword a worm-ridden hand.
You go, girl.
Kelly Goodweather sets one of her Feelers as a guard dog to protect Zach.
Yeah, Zach becomes a bit unhealthy enamored with his guard monster, and bonds with it.
Zach plays catch with it, talks to it, and even (shudder) cuddles with it.
That cant be healthy.
It seems lil Zach is becoming enamored with strigoi.
It is a very disturbing bit of business and takes things in a shocking and profoundly disturbing direction.
We have hit the halfway point of the season, and I cant wait to see what happens next.
Rating:
3.5 out of 5
