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The season one finale follows the theme and feel of the season. Setrakian's crew confront The Master in an effort to rid the world of the strigoi once and for all. Meanwhile side characters such as Fitzwilliam have their arcs resolved. Eichorst and Palmer deal with the government's impending attempts to halt the strigoi infestation.

This finale is slow, but to anyone that watched the previous episodes, they will know this. This is one of the strengths of this show as I appreciate the slow pace to help it explore its characters more.

One of the big problems with this finale is that nothing of note happens in the episode. Even after Setrakian's crew immerse The Master in sunlight, the vampire lord simply escapes. The only thing that is more known is that the heroes must come up with a new plan to destroy The Master.

I recommend watching the season one finale of The Strain. It offers a somewhat satisfying conclusion to the first season.

Grade: B

The Strain Season One

The Strain is a television series about a vampire apocalypse. The series starts with a flight landing in New York City where all of the passengers have seemingly perished. From this moment, the vampire apocalypse begins as the city and the world are ravaged by a fast-acting parasite that changes its victims.

The Strain takes the vampire apocalypse concept and applies it slowly. The series follows CDC agents as they discover and attempt to stop vampirism from spreading. This is thwarted by agents of the vampires as they have a plan for world domination. The story also features a pawnbroker and "survivors" of the flight as the vampire apocalypse begins. The television series is incredibly slow as the story follows many perspectives. This is one of the weaknesses of the show as the main story arc with how the characters are used or seek the thwart The Master's plans are sidelined and brought up occasionally.

I did not find myself enjoying the story of the survivors of the flight as it was obvious after the dead vampires rose in the morgue what they would become. The scenes felt superfluous and their characters were bland. I did however like the different choices each survivor made to confront their vampirism.

The questionable choices some characters make when confronted by the vampires is also a weakness here. In one scene, a taxi driver is attacked by a vampire hitting the window of the car with its proboscis. This should have scared the driver into driving away but instead the driver walks out and dies to the vampires. It is scenes like these that are baffling and can prevent enjoyment of the television series.

The main characters are overall likable. Vasiliy Fet is a great character in the first season with him figuring out the vampirism on his own. Likewise, Abraham Setrakian, played by David Bradley does a good job here with his gruff demeanor.

The Strain's first season is rough but overall it is recommended. It is an interesting take on a vampire apocalypse.

Grade: B

They located the master at the bolivar's theatre which is the place connected to an old sewer tunnel that was used to hide booze during the Prohibition era. Eph told his son the truth. Eldritch took the heart of Setrakians late wife and pushed the mayor who wanted a total lockdown off the rooftop. They fought the master in the theater and pushed him into direct sunlight but he didn't die and ran down the building. Setrakian was wrong. Bolivar is such a cool vampire. Gus will take revenge on vampires with those fighters called the ancients who need human fighters. Eph and his son came across with his mother in their house. She ran off after being shot in the shoulder.

Reaction / Review for The Strain Season 1 Episode 13: Episode 12 was great and I gave it a rating of 8.8/10. Wait, Palmer is a vampire now and he touched silver and it didn't hurt him? Am I missing something? Oh I see he didn't get the worm, only the ''white''. I guess the white is the Master's life juice or something. Palmer is a murderer now? Damn I didn't see that coming. The Master escaped once again. Gus keeps trying to beat the good vampire and also trying to escape, that's not very smart of him. The good vampire obviously knows what he is doing. He wants Gus to work for him, someone that can move in the daylight, very interesting. Overall a great episode, my rating is 8/10.

When the gang finally get to fight the master, the brake all the windows so the light comes in. OK that was fun but when the master falls down on the balcony every body sits there staring at him with their hands full of loaded weapons and swords and stuff. During the whole first season the first reaction when they see a zombie is to go for the head but when it comes to the master they simply let him escape.

This is probably the most disappointing finale I've ever seen.

Sorry for my grammar..

Y.

How do you fight the vampires? You shout at them and if you recognize someone you don't fight unless you first you a deep inventory of how you feel. How do vampires fight? They come close, do a little act and then they do nothing allowing you to cut them down. This show seems to have taken it's clues on how to do action from South Parks view on professional wrestling. Blablablablablablabla, ohh maybe I should cut the monster I've been chasing all my life up a bit. Ooops, too late. This show is just annoying. It lacks all sense of speed. And that is just the fighting. 'Biggest' city in the world is experiencing some kind of disaster but having it sealed off and investigated will thwart your plans. How do you fix this? You throw someone off the building. Groan. Dumb show without action or logic.