The Strain Season 1, Episode 1 Review — culturefly.co.uk

“Hunger, a poet once said, is the most important thing we know, the first lesson we learn. But hunger can be easily quieted down, easily satiated. There is another force, a different type of hunger, an unquenchable thirst that cannot be extinguished. Its very existence is what defines us, what makes us human. That force is love.” With that stirring voice-over from Game of Thrones’ David Bradley, we begin the pilot episode of Guillermo del Toro’s new horror-drama, The Strain, and it’s monstrously creepy from the outset. The pilot episode opens with a plane preparing to land. As the passengers are told to turn off their devices and put their seats up, a flight attendant calls his colleague to the back of the plane, where he’s panicking after hearing noises coming from the cargo hold. They lift the hold door and can’t see anything but as soon as they shut the door, something starts banging against it. The flight attendants start shouting as bolts fly from the metal hatch, and something big and grisly looking bursts out of the hold. That, friends, is our first introduction to the monsters of this tale.

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