Beyond the gore and action, explores heavy themes:
The plane lands. The CDC fails to contain the "coffin" of dirt (The Master’s lair) that was on board. Within days, New York City collapses. The team discovers the existence of vampires but is dismissed by the government. The season ends with the city in flames and The Master taking a powerful new human host. the strain series
Before it was a television show, The Strain began as an idea for a limited television series. Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-winning mastermind behind Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water , originally pitched the concept to Fox. When that deal fell through, he collaborated with author Chuck Hogan to turn the story into a trilogy of novels: The Strain (2009), The Fall (2010), and The Night Eternal (2011). Beyond the gore and action, explores heavy themes:
In the landscape of 21st-century television, vampires have undergone many transformations. We have seen them as romantic leads, teenage heartthrobs, and brooding anti-heroes. But in 2014, FX Networks unleashed a creature feature that stripped away the glamour and returned the undead to their roots as terrifying, parasitic monsters. That show was The Strain . The team discovers the existence of vampires but
The series begins with a chilling scene at New York's JFK Airport: a Boeing 777 lands, but suddenly goes dark and silent on the tarmac. When , head of a CDC rapid-response team, investigates, he finds a plane full of corpses—and a mysterious cargo that carries a "strain" of an ancient, parasitic infection.