Ajax, I like where you're going with this.

Is there a chance that the whole 2000 years later bit is not true at all? Wasn't there a thing in the beginning about Ethan having hallucinations?

Why would they do a backgrouond check on somebody they already hired? And anyway, a background check on somebody who sells plants? What world do you live in?

I am not watching this show but the photos made me curious: Is there a specific reason Sherlock has the haircut of a village idiot? Do they ever make reference to that? Does he cut his own hair? Combined with that grey shirt he looks full-on Slingblade. Bizarre.

Who does dishes while wearing wool gloves (Setrakian)? Are they trying to tell us something or is this just another example of the total lack of common sense in the universe of The Strain? This show is so confusing…

I'm glad somebody finally mentioned Louie's balls or his lack of balls
(according to Pam). This is exactly what that scene in the apartment was
all about. He was trying to negotiate that space between being a nice,
shlubby doormat and taking control of the situation. To me that's the
space that a lot of men struggle…

Indeed. Why waste all that ammo if they'll get killed and eaten anyway? No, better herd them into a car, let them shit in a bucket for a week, get sick, weak and disgusting and THEN eat them. Yum.

I have been hate watching this season. "The Grove" was the first episode in quite a while that actually made me feel something.
That grade is totally ludicrous.

That C is just wrong. Seriously.

It's never a good sign when all you can think about during a show is how juvenile the protagonist's hair looks and how ugly his glasses are.

She was my favorite character, the only one that even faintly resembled a real human being. I'm probably getting old, but I'm starting to really hate all these young, sexy people.
And they're shit in the sack, too.
Grow up already.

I will never ever understand these people's decision to just set up camp in a completely unprotected area. I understand the argument of wanting to stay away from cities etc. but surely there must be a decent number of remote houses in that area.
Then again, it's not the characters that are stupid, it's the writers who…

I wonder why City of Hope is always completely overlooked. It is my favorite Sayles movie apart from Lone Star.

Yes, yes, THIS exactly. After reading The Shining, the movie seemed incredibly dull to me. (I hate Stanley Kubrick, so that didn't help.) Session 9 is a great, great, little underrated horror movie. Much more scary than The Shining, which to me is - like all of Kubrick's work - pretentious bullshit.

oops, yes, Libby!

It would achieve so many things at once:
It would make Ethan look like a great doctor.
He'd get one over on his boss who gives him no respect.
It would make the mistreated Betty happy. (That would of course be the last reason for Ethan to do anything, as he is clearly a scumbag, but still..)

That's Ethan's kid, right? (As in Ethan used his own sperm to impregnate Betty.)
Or am I completely off?

A lot. I just watched it.

I stopped watching this mid-season because I simply no longer gave a crap. It seems to me Carrie Raisler is slowly getting there, too. I'm trying to figure out why I actually liked the first season, but it's hard to find the reasons once you look back having realized that these people ARE behave like petulant children…

I swear any scene that James is in seems like they're doing an expressionist stage play. That is some of the most unnatural acting I've ever seen outside of a theater. And he seems to bring out the worst in the other actors as well.