Thread: Movies and TV FX: The Strain
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Old 07-21-2014, 11:51 AM   #29
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What an absolute shit show. Nothing more than a studio sweep of every cliche and tired story line that drifted down to the floor from shows that were tired out decades ago. Not a single character, just a mishmash of caricatures.

I seriously doubt there was a single line of dialog in the entire pilot that hadn't been said 100 times before on TV or on a Michael Bay movie.

My GOD!!! That scene of the father WITH A DAUGHTER, THIS HER!!!! THIS IS A PICTURE OF HER!!!, the CDC guy talked for all of 15 seconds and this malook lunges, slaps him and says 'all you do is talk and talk.'

No sentient being on Earth acts like that. Caricatures do all the time, though.

The crazy old man that they dismiss out of hand, who stops them in their tracks with inside knowledge he couldn't possibly know!!! Caricature CITY!!!!

The CDC dude with important work with thousands of lives at stake who doesn't pay enough attention to his home life. The put upon wife who's moved on to a young punk. The son they both love who she's cruelly trying to take from his father's embrace.

Ugh!!! I am stupider now than I was before watching, I just know it.

If asked, I could have written that pilot in an afternoon, only I fear I would have slit my wrists in despair before getting it to the printers.
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