This podcast covered the hit(?) FX show "The Strain". A panel of Philly comedians, including Mike Marbach, David Donnella, Rob Alesiani and other guests, recap, theorize, and crack wise along the way. This podcast does not take itself or the show too seriously. We were very critical, especially as the show began to fall apart (surprisingly quickly), but did not miss opportunities to praise the show when good choices were made. We made a vow to see it through and we did.
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This podcast covered the hit(?) FX show "The Strain". A panel of Philly comedians, including Mike Marbach, David Donnella, Rob Alesiani and other guests, recap, theorize, and crack wise along the way. This podcast does not take itself or the show too seriously. We were very critical, especially as the show began to fall apart (surprisingly quickly), but did not miss opportunities to praise the show when good choices were made. We made a vow to see it through and we did.
And I feel fine. This episode of Bloody Sunday covers The Strain Season four episodes 8, 9, and 10. Rob, who has not seen a single episode of this season before seeing 8-10, joins Mike and David to close the books on this frustrating show with a very fun accompanying podcast. Thank you all for listening! Please check out our other podcasts on WooderCooler.com. Tweet at us @SRMpodcast. Let us know what we should be watching and podding. We have more to do!
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers The Strain Season four episodes 5 (Belly of the Beast), 6 (Tainted Love), and 7 (Ouroboros). Not much to say beyond that. We are almost finished with this thing.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers season 4 episodes 3 and 4 of The Strain. Not much movement in two episodes. Basically still looking for a bomb, trying to poison blood, and harvest babies for some reason. Another set of episodes with very little to no movement or Abe. Even he’s tired of this show.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers season four episode 1 and 2 of the Strain titled “The Worm Turns” and “The Blood Tax” respectively. We check in a few months (years?) after season 3 when an atomic bomb was set off in New York by a punk kid. The punk kid is now being prepared to house the Master. Eph is putzing around Philly. Dutch is at some baby factory for strigs. Abe is apparently still caught. Gus is in the business of locating things from time to time. Fet is in Trump country looking for a bomb. Against our better judgment we are back covering this show. It has not improved, but the podcast remains fun to do. Hopefully you enjoy it.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 10 of The Strain titled “The Fall”. This is it. The third season finale. Who would have thought we’d make it this far, let alone have another season to come… but here we are. This was a pretty decent episode of the show and one of the better finales to a season of the three we’ve seen. We lost Kelly again, but beyond that the core is still in tact. Including the Master who once again escapes not just the sword and the sea, but ends up being freed by a NUCLEAR BOMB. The second to go off in a few weeks on this show. It’s kind of out of control. I cannot promise we will be back in this off season for any reason whatsoever, but we will be back to cover what will hopefully be an even shorter 4th season. Thank you David, Rob, Joe and Jolie for the laughs this season and to all who put up with us talking about this show.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 9 of The Straing titled “Do or Die”. In what is probably the best episode in season for this show (again, not saying much) we see some real plot progression and the loss of a couple big characters. We have one episode left in this shortened third season. Thanks to David, Rob and Jolie for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 8 titled “White Light”. We just found out this is a “shortened” season, which could explain why there was actually some plot developments this year. This episode, though, had little in the way of movement. Though it did have a really cool albeit short fight at the end. Thanks to David for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 7 of The Strain. The show is back to form. Unfortunately that’s bad form. We had a decent three episode run of moderately good (for this show) episodes. That all came crashing down last night along with any real plot progression. Thanks to Rob Alesiani and David Donnella for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 6 of The Strain titled “Battle of Central Park”. As we saw in this episode… there was no battle of central park. If anything the battle took place off screen and was more just people running away. Hopefully we see an actual battle next week. Decent episode, but not quite as “good” as the last couple. Little movement plot wise and some really weird moments. Also, it’s just come out that this show was RENEWED FOR A FOURTH SEASON! A fourth and final season, but holy hell, we will be back for another year. Thanks to David Donnella, Rob Alesiani, and newcomer to the podcast, Ashlee Rose Toll, for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season3 Episode 5 of The Strain titled “Madness”. The show continues it’s slight uptick in storytelling and general watchability. It’s become a bit less predictable and disappointing and we are, dare I say, somewhat enjoying it again. Still more fun to talk about than to watch though.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 4 of The Strain. The show is back to its true form of little to no plot progression. We learned nothing this week that we didn’t know last week. In an episode titled “Gone But Not Forgotten”, I can’t think of anyone that’s actually gone or forgotten. We still talk about it and crack wise along the way. If you enjoy the show, rate & review us on iTunes. Talk to us @SRMPodcast on Twitter. Thanks to David & Rob for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 3 of The Strain titled “First Born”. This episode, unlike many that we talk about, was actually pretty decent. Whether that had a hand in this being one of the more fun podcasts we’ve done (at least for us) you can be the judge. Things actually happened in this episode. The plot progressed. Granted the majority of the episode was just building to the last 10 minutes with nonsense, but at least things happened. We actually get to speculate a little bit about the story and not just how this show gets made. Thanks David Donnella and Rob Alesiani for the really fun chat.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 2 of The Straight titled “Bad White”. Another episode without much movememnt. Palmer is tring to refine the white and seeks out Abe to strike a deal. Dutch surfaces with a bunch of punks. Eph looks to get the Lumen and strikes a deal with Quinlan. If there’s something I missed, honestly, what does it matter. Thanks to Rob and David for the chats.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 3 Episode 1 of The Strain titled “New York Strong”. Much to our suprise, The Strain was renewed for a third season. If you listen to the podcast you know we don’t love the show, but after making it to the end of season one and trudging through season two, we are now honor bound to continue discussing it. Though we don’t enjoy the show, we thorougly enjoy the podcast. In the premiere we really didn’t learn anything new. It was more of a 5 minute checking in on people spread over an hour. Pretty typical episode actually. Thanks to Rob, David and Jolie for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 2 episode 13 of The Strain titled “Night Train”. We’ve come to it at last. The season finale. Everything has been building up to this and there’s no way it can be disappointing right? Wrong. This was mid-season level climax at best. This show is too spread out over too many episodes. Had they cut several episodes out of this season they’d have been better off. We finally got a major death, so that’s something. This was a good episode, but I’m so tired of safe choices. They’re boring. Next season really needs to make some big changes… and we’ll be here to talk about it. We want a good show and hopefully we get it.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Episode 12 of the The Strain entitled Dead End. We are getting down to it. The episodes have been getting better, but we still can’t get away from feeling like this is 10 episodes of show spread over 13 episodes. It’s gotten more fun overall and hopefully this season’s finale will do what needs to be done and start killing off some major characters. I want to think that no one is safe.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 2 Episode 11 of FX Network’s The Strain titled “Dead End”. This episode is one of the better of the season, but again the same issues remain. We got some Gus and Angel, but were missing Quinlan and, maybe even Palmer a little bit. Just two episodes left to wrap up this rocky season. Thanks to David and Rob for the laughs.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 2 Episode 10 of The Strain titled “The Assassin”. In spite of being full of a lot of the things that make me dislike this show, this was an overall good episode. They continue to be scared to make any really big moves, so many episodes become little to no movement. That was mostly the case here, but it was covered under a bunch of fun and, at times, even good scenes. This episode a particularly odd exchange that we had a little too much fun discussing. I left it all in. Thank you David and Joe the good times.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers Season 2 episode 9 of The Strain titled The Battle For Red Hook. I thought this episode was another step in the right direction. That’s not to say there’s been a series of sequential steps, just that this is another. I enjoyed the episode even though it was pretty predictable. I think Iliked it because it really started to feel like the show it should be… fun, campy, gory with some movement toward an overall purpose.
This episode of Bloody Sunday covers season 2 episode 8 of “The Strain” entitled “The Intruders”. This week’s show was a two man job with me (Mike) and David Donnella sitting down to summarize, analyze and crack wise. Overall a pretty boring episode. After two weeks of some progress we get minimal movement this week. Some cool things happened, sure, but for the most part this episode was treading water and no where close to land yet. Congrats to our contest winner, “HamletSeries”. We’ll be in touch to get out your books to you soon! Like the show? Rate & Review! You could win something.
This podcast covered the hit(?) FX show "The Strain". A panel of Philly comedians, including Mike Marbach, David Donnella, Rob Alesiani and other guests, recap, theorize, and crack wise along the way. This podcast does not take itself or the show too seriously. We were very critical, especially as the show began to fall apart (surprisingly quickly), but did not miss opportunities to praise the show when good choices were made. We made a vow to see it through and we did.
