The Strain Season 2 Episode 6 Review: “Identity”
The Strain‘s second season often feels constructed in direct response to the most common criticism of its freshman campaign, which slowly meandered tow
Author: Randy Dankievitch
Since 2011, Randy Dankievitch has written about television, film, video games, and pop culture all over the internet, including Sound on Sight, Geeks Unleashed, and SLUG Magazine. He currently writes for TVOvermind and TVRoundtable, where he also co-hosts the TVRoundtable podcast.
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Of the many things Playing House does well, perhaps its sense of community is its most impressive. For a show that’s only produced six and a half hou
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Since the first few episodes of Scrubs delved into the life and mentality of a med student (albeit in a person slightly removed from the classroom setting),
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“Fortysomething” is an episode of Frasier with a very neat, very weird split between it. What begins as a somber reflection on middle age eventu
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“Quick and Painless” holds dual meaning for The Strain – in that it’s the episode title, and the general emotion one walks away from t
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Vacillating between West Coast noir and by-the-numbers cop drama all season, True Detective‘s tale of Vinci and corrupt sex-craved politicians was neve
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You can tell the writers’ room of Frasier was starting to run out of steam by this point: this is a 22-minute episode derived around Marty’s cha
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Television certainly doesn’t lack for cynical comedies; in a post-Seinfeld world, sarcasm and nihilism are a common thread running through nearly every
