The Strain

2014 • FX

4.6

6.25K reviews

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Seasons 1 - 4 episodes (50)

1 Season 1 Episode 1: - Night Zero

7/12/14

Season-only

A drama based on the series of books. The story centers on Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, a CDC biological threats investigator, who's called in to check into a mysterious Boeing 777 crash in New York. Teamed up with ex-professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian, the duo must fend off a ruthless army of blood-sucking vampire human parasites.

2 Season 1 Episode 2: The Box

7/20/14

Season-only

The four survivors begin manifesting strange symptoms, but Eph and Nora's attempt to quarantine them is thwarted as the disinformation campaign begins. Meanwhile, in jail, Setrakian receives a surprise visit from an old — a very old — acquaintance.

3 Season 1 Episode 3: Gone Smooth

7/27/14

Season-only

Eph and Nora fight to save Captain Redfern's life before coming face-to-face with the horrifying effects of the virus. A spike in rat attacks signals Fet that something inexplicable is happening deep below the city. Released from jail, Setrakian begins his own merciless plan to stop the spread of the disease.

4 Season 1 Episode 4: It's Not for Everyone

8/3/14

Season-only

A secret autopsy demonstrates the bizarre progression of the mystery virus, prompting Jim to make a startling confession. Eph and Nora race to find the father of the youngest victim of the plane tragedy, but someone unexpected beats them to it. Ansel, in the grip of disease, takes desperate measures to protect his family.

5 Season 1 Episode 5: Runaways

8/10/14

Season-only

With Nora gone, Eph reluctantly joins Setrakian’s quest in hopes of gathering enough evidence to warrant a citywide quarantine. Fet encounters the unexpected inside the subway tunnels, and a medical emergency threatens Palmer’s master plan.

6 Season 1 Episode 6: Occultation

8/17/14

Season-only

After warning Kelly to leave the city with Zack ahead of the spreading plague, Eph is arrested by the FBI. Eichhorst has one final job for Gus, while Setrakian realizes that the coming eclipse is the tipping point for virus infection and the beginning of the end.

7 Season 1 Episode 7: For Services Rendered

8/24/14

Season-only

Setrakian, Eph, and Nora formulate a plan to track down the Master using Jim as bait. Eichhorst and Setrakian’s pasts are revealed. At the Luss home, Neeva struggles to protect the children while encountering a mysterious stranger whose help she may not want.

8 Season 1 Episode 8: Creatures of the Night

8/31/14

Season-only

After discovering the potency of ultraviolet light against the strigoi, Setrakian gains a new and unlikely disciple. A quick trip to a Brooklyn convenience store turns into a deadly all-night siege.

9 Season 1 Episode 9: The Disappeared

9/7/14

Season-only

Eph races to safeguard his family, only to learn that Kelly is missing. Dutch reveals her role in Palmer’s plan, and Gus is forced to make a difficult decision about Felix.

10 Season 1 Episode 10: Loved Ones

9/14/14

Season-only

Eph investigates Kelly’s disappearance and struggles with what he finds. Dutch pursues a plan to retaliate against Palmer, and Fitzwilliam makes a surprising choice.

11 Season 1 Episode 11: - The Third Rail

9/20/14

Season-only

Setrakian leads Eph, Fet and Nora in the hunt for the Master’s lair. Left behind at the pawnshop with Mariela, Zack risks his safety for Mariela's sake.

12 Season 1 Episode 12: Last Rites

9/28/14

Season-only

Dutch returns with a plan to broadcast Eph’s warning about the vampiric plague. However, they face a new threat when Eichhorst launches his own attack against the pawn shop. Palmer receives a special visitor, and Gus gears up for the on-coming fight but discovers there’s another mysterious factor involved.

13 Season 1 Episode 13: The Master

10/5/14

Season-only

Eph and Fet recon for an all-out assault that Setrakian assures them will finally kill the Master. Gus aligns himself with a strange new force, one that may swing the fight in an unforeseen direction.

14 Season 2 Episode 1: BK, NY

7/12/15

Season-only

Eph and Nora work on a biological weapon to kill the strigoi, and Setrakian risks the lives of the entire group to find information about a closely guarded secret text. The Master begins the next phase of his own plan by creating a terrifying new breed of creatures and placing them under Kelly’s control.

15 Season 2 Episode 2: By Any Means

7/19/15

Season-only

Eph and Nora experiment on their newfound patients. Fet and Dutch grow closer as they clear out the neighborhood buildings, and Kelly begins her hunt for Zack.

16 Season 2 Episode 3: Fort Defiance

7/26/15

Season-only

Gus and Vaun wage an attack on Palmer as Eph struggles to connect with Zack. Councilwoman Justine Faraldo vows to bring her extermination policies to the other boroughs.

17 Season 2 Episode 4: The Silver Angel

8/2/15

Season-only

Eph and Nora finally see their lethal virus in action. Fet takes the security of Red Hook into his own hands while Dutch and Setrakian set off for Staten Island to question Fitzwilliam, Palmer’s former body guard.

18 Season 2 Episode 5: Quick and Painless

8/9/15

Season-only

Eph changes his appearance to leave the city while Nora is left as the reluctant parent for Zack. Dutch and Nora make a deal with Justine to secure Fet’s release from jail.

19 Season 2 Episode 6: Identity

8/16/15

Season-only

Eph concocts a plan to make and distribute a bioweapon. Gus realizes Angel can be an unlikely ally, and Kelly comes after Nora and Zack.

20 Season 2 Episode 7: The Born

8/23/15

Season-only

Setrakian and Fet use Fitzwilliam’s info to attack the Master, but a mysterious new player arrives. Dutch receives a surprise guest. Eph returns to NYC frustrated but energized to go after the one person responsible for killing his friends.

21 Season 2 Episode 8: Intruders

8/30/15

Season-only

Eph must protect Zack against a surprise intruder into Red Hook. Gus convinces the Guptas to make a difficult choice. Fet and Setrakian set out to acquire the Lumen but discover they are not the only potential buyer.

22 Season 2 Episode 9: The Battle for Red Hook

9/6/15

Season-only

Justine takes drastic measures to counter a surprise invasion. Nora and Fet perform a useful mission while Eph and Setrakian face off against an old foe.

23 Season 2 Episode 10: The Assassin

9/13/15

Season-only

Eph and Dutch work together to thwart the Master’s greatest ally. Justine runs into trouble with the Mayor while Setrakian tracks down the real owner of the Lumen.

24 Season 2 Episode 11: Dead End

9/20/15

Season-only

Dutch fights for her life against Eichhorst as Fet, Nora, and Eph frantically search the city for her.

25 Season 2 Episode 12: Fallen Light

9/27/15

Season-only

Eph must choose between Zack's safety and the safety of the citizens of NYC. Meanwhile, his relationship with Nora reaches a critical impasse, and Gus and Angel assemble an unlikely gang of Sun-hunters.

26 Season 2 Episode 13: Night Train

10/4/15

Season-only

Setrakian and Fet battle for possession of the Occido Lumen, and gain a surprising new ally. A massive attack imperils Eph, Nora, and Zack’s escape from New York.

27 Season 2 Episode 101: – First Look, Season 2

7/5/15

Season-only

Go behind the scenes of The Strain Season 2 with the creators and the actors.

28 Season 2 Episode 102: Sentient Strigoi

10/26/15

Season-only

The cast and writers detail the hierarchy of the series’ vampires and outline the bee hive mentality that exists between The Master and his minions.

29 Season 3 Episode 1: New York Strong

8/28/16

Season-only

The strigoi are evolving, becoming faster. Smarter. Eph’s bioweapon is failing. He struggles to improve it while trying to work through the emotional fallout of the abduction of his son, Zack. As Setrakian and Quinlan attempt to crack the Lumen’s deepest-held secrets, Fet helps a Navy SEAL team in a deadly mission: a search for the Master through the underground tunnels of New York.

30 Season 3 Episode 2: Bad White

9/4/16

Season-only

The Master’s offer to return Zack plagues Eph as he considers taking it. Dutch reunites with an old group of friends but begins to question if her safety is better with them or with Fet, Eph and Setrakian. Palmer strives for answers to Setrakian’s secret strigoi blood treatments and discovers he may have a way to acquire it.

31 Season 3 Episode 3: First Born

9/11/16

Season-only

The Occido Lumen is gone. Stolen. Setrakian and Fet race to recover it. Gus and Angel try to hide a secret houseguest while avoiding a police sweep, and Quinlan’s thirst for vengeance is revealed.

32 Season 3 Episode 4: Gone but Not Forgotten

9/18/16

Season-only

Things have changed. The infection enters a new phase. Fet wants to celebrate, but Setrakian and Eph are worried there’s more work to be done. Justine conscripts a new, unwilling army in the fight while Eichhorst angrily lashes out with a plan to strike back.

33 Season 3 Episode 5: Madness

9/25/16

Season-only

New information from the Lumen forces Setrakian to seek help from his lifelong nemesis, Eldritch Palmer. Eph’s new experiments to understand strigoi communication seemingly take him to the brink of madness while Fet is on a mission to discover strigoi movements across New York City.

34 Season 3 Episode 6: The Battle of Central Park

10/2/16

Season-only

Fet strikes hard at the heart of the strigoi army while Justine embarks upon a risky mission to drive the strigoi out of Manhattan once and for all. Gus and Angel fight for their lives and their freedom but are faced with a moral dilemma.

35 Season 3 Episode 7: Collaborators

10/9/16

Season-only

Setrakian offers hope in a new plan to trap the Master while Eph and Dutch seek out the Master’s “voice.” Palmer, frail and close to death, needs Setrakian’s access to the white to hold up his end of their bargain. Fet suffers a devastating personal loss revealing a long-hidden family secret.

36 Season 3 Episode 8: White Light

10/16/16

Season-only

The Master’s voice proves to be more powerful and potentially fatal than Eph or Dutch anticipated. Fet and Setrakian track down the cargo from the Egyptian vessel and realize they may be in over their heads. Quinlan strikes a deal with the Ancients, but a last minute betrayal proves deadly.

37 Season 3 Episode 9: Do or Die

10/23/16

Season-only

NYC is falling. Eph and Dutch frantically race to finish their new device to stop the Master before the city is overrun. Justine, Gus, and Angel fight in one last stand to stop the spreading virus. Palmer extracts vengeance for past wrongs but may have crossed the line.

38 Season 3 Episode 10: The Fall

10/30/16

Season-only

Humanity teeters on the edge of destruction. The Master finally reveals himself, initiating the end game of a battle in which there can be only one winner. Eph, Fet, Setrakian, and Dutch must overcome their personal differences in a last-ditch effort to vanquish the strain.

39 Season 3 Episode 101: Season 3 FIRST LOOK

8/14/16

Season-only

Humanity is losing. No one is safe. Can the strigoi be contained? Get a FIRST LOOK at The Strain Season 3 with the cast. Premieres 8/28 on FX.

40 Season 4 Episode 1: The Worm Turns

7/16/17

Season-only

Out of the ashes of humanity’s nuclear war, Night Eternal has begun. Haunted by the atrocities committed by his son, Eph abandons NYC for Philadelphia. His solitude is cut short when he encounters new fighters who rekindle his drive to fight back. Tasked by Setrakian, Fet and Quinlan search for a new means of stopping the Master.

41 Season 4 Episode 2: The Blood Tax

7/23/17

Season-only

Imprisoned as a subject in a strigoi breeding program, Dutch is desperate to escape and find Setrakian. Gus recruits his cousin for the inside job that will put his gang at the top of the new world’s underground economy, but Creem is suspicious of his business partner’s ambitions.

42 Season 4 Episode 3: One Shot

7/30/17

Season-only

Quinlan and Fet discover that stealing a nuclear warhead isn’t easy when they encounter an unexpected enemy. Eph and Alex concoct a new weapon to use against the strigoi. Frustrated with his seclusion, Zack discovers a love interest.

43 Season 4 Episode 4: New Horizons

8/6/17

Season-only

Dutch is forced to make a deal with Desai while she plots to escape a strigoi breeding facility. Eph and Alex seek to uncover the dark secrets behind the Partnership’s new plan but face the repercussion of their last attack. Gus and Creem face off against a gang encroaching on their turf.

44 Season 4 Episode 5: Belly of the Beast

8/13/17

Season-only

Fet and Quinlan are hot on the trail of a convoy carrying their prized nuclear weapon. Eph and Alex search for clues to uncover the Master’s plan for the ultimate fate of the human race. Dutch is trapped by a familiar enemy, yet encounters an old friend as well.

45 Season 4 Episode 6: Tainted Love

8/20/17

Season-only

Fet and Quinlan have to figure out how to get the nuclear bomb back to New York, while a desperate Eichhorst draws near. Love-struck Zack tries to learn more about his new crush, but makes a devastating discovery.

46 Season 4 Episode 7: Ouroboros

8/27/17

Season-only

His health failing, Setrakian ignores Eph’s warnings, pushing himself to the limit in his quest for victory and revenge. Fet and Quinlan race back to Manhattan, while the Master seals off the city and prepares to eliminate them all.

47 Season 4 Episode 8: Extraction

9/3/17

Season-only

Reeling from loss, our heroes regroup. To defeat the Master, they must locate him first. Our heroes devise a new plan to track him through human collaborators, beginning at the blood farm with someone Dutch knows all too well.

48 Season 4 Episode 9: The Traitor

9/10/17

Season-only

An unexpected guest brings old conflicts to the surface, dividing our heroes, threatening the group’s trust. With questionable new intel in hand, they launch a make-or-break final assault on the Master.

49 Season 4 Episode 10: The Last Stand

9/17/17

Season-only

In the series finale, Quinlan devises a desperate plan, but the costs are enormous. Eph wrestles with his conscience, Fet undertakes a suicide mission, and Dutch and Gus dig in for battle as humankind makes its final stand against the Master and his Strain.

50 Season 4 Episode 101: First Look

7/3/17

Season-only

In the battle between good and evil, which side do you choose? Catch a sneak peek at the upcoming final season of The Strain.

About this show

The Strain is a high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the CDC Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph and his team wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

Ratings and reviews

4.6

6.25K reviews

Courtney Blake

September 17, 2015

At first, I was a fan of the more romanticized version of vampirism. So, the thought of tiny worm parasites turning ppl into a bunch of zombified igor-like predators turned me off a bit. The way the plot twists and turns, the way the character development has come along & the acting/special effects all come together to form a more deviously twisted presentation.... it's brilliant.

203 people found this review helpful

Marcus Russell

August 21, 2014

I'm not a huge book reader or a vampire,zombie fan, but i watched the first episode of the show, and immediately I downloaded the audio books and listen to all 3 consecutively. It is of the best I have ever read (listened) and shows following suit. A little mixed up from the books but is promising for multiple seasons

47 people found this review helpful

Jarrett Thomas

August 17, 2014

The first episode looks promising the first couple of minutes, then all hope gets hacked away with corny effects that increasingly become embarrassing to watch, followed by actors who don't seem as though they have fully bought into their character. I bought the series banking on Del Toro's genius and the genuine fresh take on a remix of sci-fi horror tropes, but I feel regret and wish I had only bought a single episode first.

75 people found this review helpful

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