Heh, Bara horror/sci-fi has the same tentacle/stinger fixation, for some reason…ugh.

Now, be reasonable — do you really expect a pretty blonde in a horror show/movie running from her monster attacker to NOT fall down? I mean, that's what ladies do, right?

Exactly. Most aren't career athletes (although some, like Flip Rodriguez, have made a career out of their ANW exposure). They're exterminators, TV weathermen, bus boys, cowboys, movie theater workers and whatever the hell Crazy Craver was (an artist?)…

I felt like the single biggest change they made was adding the Invisible Ladder at the end (grueling upper body-intensive climb with rings, after a full course of upper body obstacles) replacing the Spider Climb (all lower body exercise). I was stunned *anyone* managed to make it up that dammed thing.

You know, I really like Kacy Catanzaro, and cheered for her last year, but even *I* was annoyed when they gave her a wild card berth after her poor initial run. (Then I was embarrassed for her when she whiffed the wild card run on the second obstacle.)

Same. A lot of people sneer at ANW (before grabbing their Cheetos and turning on The Bachelor), but I love the true sportsmanship all the athletes display. Everyone roots for everyone else, and seem genuinely happy when someone succeeds. Jock-ish assholes (like that dude who models and goes on ANW to preen before…

Heh. But seriously, AVC, a B? For that steaming pile of domeshit? It wasn't even an entertainingly bad finale, just poorly acted, sloppy and dull. I didn't realize the actress playing Dawn was this bad (because she had less to do as Eva) but she was just awful.

Let's get real…politicians are influenced by money, but only if it helps them get elected. And no one is going to vote for politicians who are sitting on their hands while hordes of vampires are spreading to other cities from NYC. Social media may be down in New York (although regular news is available), but not the…

I can never tell how worried we're supposed to be about the worms. When the show started they were spread by casual contact and were 100% effective. Now Our Heroes fight with and shoot strigoi at close range all the time without masks, Fet had Kelly's worms on his hands but was fine, and the untrained citizens of…

Mostly agree, although the ep didn't start to improve until we were past the Angry Lesbian Sex scene, which was painfully hacky and cliched. (In fact, *everything* about the Fet/Dutch/Nikki triangle is painful.)

Can any science-y UTD viewers explain if a dome that covers dozens of square miles filled with trees, plants and other oxygen-producing species — essentially, a terrarium — will really run out of air several hours after it's closed up? Also, I'm NOT buying that older people are going to be this instantly affected by…

"the "OTHER" aliens imminent invasion…"

I was only half paying attention and I swear I thought that was Tyra Banks in a cheap blond wig and UTD had scored an ANTM crossover…which would be AWESOME.

The same place the ladies-in-waiting to pregnant Eva got their perfectly coordinated white dresses and thousands of candles…Dome Macy's!

So now that Kelly and the Spider Kids (who really should be a Hanna-Barbera 70's cartoon band, on a double bill with Josie and the Pussycats) have found Setrakian's lair, will they all have to move? I assume the Master will order a full-on invasion of the place ASAP…

I liked that cold open, too. Why are The Strain's opening scenes always so much better than anything that comes after?

OSI, your point is well taken (and TBH, I also went "ew" at the sight of Coco and Palmer in bed). But if ANY female character is being denied agency on this show, it's Nora. She's a brilliant scientist, yet her sole function this episode was to babysit Zach and be jealous of Eph's dead DC fuckpiece. Not, like, work…

Speaking of pre-cable 80's TV, that huge styrofoam "boulder" of amethyst that Joe was cracking was laughably bad. Like "Mork & Mindy" or "Alf" bad. I wonder if CBS cut the props budget after UTD's ratings plunged this season?

Yeah, Pope's scenes have become Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome But With Aliens, which was a real misstep for the writers. But the way they've allowed Tom Mason to become an unreserved asshole this season — without being necessarily wrong — has been a real boon for the show.

So now that we're almost at this dopey season's end, has anyone tried to pull together all three seasons of off-the-cuff plotting into one logical narrative? For instance: