Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
After spending most of the first season checking in with various characters spread out around New York in each episode, tonight changes things up with a gas station siege for most of its running time. The narrow focus keeps the hour moving smoothly, and the action informs the characters far better than more monologues could. The Strain has been improving bit by bit over the last few weeks, and “Creatures of the Night” keeps that trend going.
The most satisfying moment was deceptively simple: one character asking someone in the know, point-blank, the most basic of questions. It’s something we’ve all yelled at the screen while watching other genre stories, frustrated that nobody would ever stop and ask “No, really—what’s going on?” That Vasiliy actually does this is an all-too-rare instance of someone behaving the way we’d like to think people would in this extraordinary situation. That Abraham had answers and didn’t have pull the “hey, you asked” card like he always has to with Eph was even more rewarding.
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