Normally, I find that excellent supporting characters make terrible leads. But in this case, I'd watch the fuck out of a show about Daniel and Adriana following up journalistic leads.

What word? Celiac disease? Porphyria? Those seem like the obvious fits for what you describe, though 'like measles, but with an iron craving' also works.

If you want to get an idea of the level at which this reviewer functions, she loves Teen Wolf and gave the last episode an A-. She just can't get her head around the idea of a horror series that isn't a front for teenage fantasy-fulfillment with sexy-sexy 20-somethings playing schoolkids, a girl torn by choosing which…

It's worth discussing Crais' comment to Braca that the latter is the purest embodiment of a Peacekeeper (or however he words it). It's intended as an insult, with Crais seeing in Braca all the delusion, ambition and unquestioning commitment to ideology that he used to hold, without any pesky humanising bonds (like…

Crais/Talyn had the benefit of such a well-directed last sequence. There's THAT monologue, of course, but the whole rhythm of the episode seems designed to set up that last line: 'Talyn, starburst.'

Scorpius would never make a threat that he wasn't willing to implement, at least in theory. Both Scorpius worst and best natures stop him from making the threat: he would never give that information to the Scarrans both because it means giving ANYTHING to the Scarrans, and also because he really does seem genuinely…

The big 'implicit' in the above sentence, is that by 'the John Crichton of season one' he means BEFORE Crichton is tortured in the Aurora Chair. From that moment, everything changes.

It's the point at which someone (usually a fictional character) decides to stop following social norms and start going outside the rules. Despite being the naming trope for Breaking Bad, it's actually better illustrated by Martin Freeman's character, Lester Nygaard, in the first episode of Fargo.

Don't think they actually discovered that the bodies were drained of blood. They had sent them for autopsy but hadn't got the result back because the assistant coroner was eaten (and as only 48 hours have passed in show-time, they were only just starting to wonder why the autopsy report hadn't been sent to them when…

I think I'll just pencil this away as one of those weird American things you guys do along with astrology, libertarianism and religion.

But nobody has seen all of that. Prior to this episode, all the CDC people had seen was a blood-born parasitic infection. Sensitivity to sunlight is an incredibly common symptom of many illnesses and would be ignored (as much as I'd love it if we started referring to people with measles as 'vampires', it probably…

The show has most of its timing about right, in terms of how quickly the virus has spread (it's only the 2nd day from the plane landing), and that Stoneheart doesn't need to completely suppress information but merely confuse/delay communication for a few days. It could do a better job of presenting this, though. I was…

I genuinely believe that AV Club reviewers project their own racism and sexism onto the shows they watch, and then critique them harshly out of guilt.

Can't agree with this enough. This is the first episode where the CDC characters have had any notice of blood-drinking or silver-vulnerability. The blood-worms don't count - there's nothing odd about that, and yet we don't go VAMPIRES!!! whenever we encounter a similar parasite in real life.

Yes. The books describe him as being in his mid-to-late 80s.

There's a lot of legitimate criticisms that could be made of the Strain, but it isn't sluggish. Calling it sluggish is adopting a very recent style of television as a normative standard - it's fine for a reviewer to clarify that a show is adopting a more traditional pacing, but the reviewer's approach encourages the…

You're an exceptionally forgiving person, TASF. Personally, I'm less inclined to accept "I honestly have no idea how to do my job" as an excuse for a professional's incompetence at her job.

I liked the twist on it they did with Peter Davidson's run in classic Dr Who (5th doc). Nicest, most pacifist, straight up decent good-guy incarnation of the character there's been…except his inability to pull the trigger on an established mega-villain ends up getting an entire space station killed, he intermittently…

I'm just glad my fat ugly Mama isn't alive to see how dull the sexual consumation of our relationship turned out to be.

We'll end up getting a new, 'forgotten', Robin that Batman refuses to speak of. He'll join Bruce in his early crimefighting as proto-Batman near the end of the show's run, before dying tragically in the last episode. Bruce will retire the Robin costume and swear never again to endanger other people by having a…