The Strain
Season 2 Episode 5: “Quick And Painless”
Directed by J. Miles Dale
Written by Liz Phang
Created by Chuck Hogan, Guillermo del Toro
Starring Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Mia Maestro, Kevin Durand, Richard Sammel, Jonathan Hyde, Miguel Gomez, Natalie Brown, Ruta Gedmintas, Jack Kesy, Ben Hyland, Lizzie Brocheré, Robin Atkin Downes, Robert Maillet
FX
Air Date: Sunday August 9th, 2015, 10pm

Last week on The Strain, a new character, well two new characters were introduced via an old black and white luchador movie, where Angel (aka Felix – Joaquín Cosio) fought vampires. Then we cut to sullen old Felix working in a restaurant, suspicious of Gus (Miguel Gomez). AND… there’s a girl. Eph (Corey Stoll) and Nora (Mia Maestro) unleashed the vampire plague on the vampire plague, and Eph was gleeful, as it’s working. The infected vamps were committing forced suicide by the Master. Vasiliy Fet (Kevin Durand) gets arrested after he blows up the subway tunnels. Dutch (Ruta Gedmintas) and Setrakian (David Bradley) go to Staten Island to get Eldritch Palmer (Jonathan Hyde) intel from Fitzwilliam (Roger R. Cross).

The Executioner is coming!

If you could not tell from the onslaught of coverage from GoD, Kurt Sutter‘s The Bastard Executioner, is coming. And now we know exactly when it will arrive. FX keeps teasing us (me), while I’m watching The Strain and Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, with these 20-second teasers. I don’t know how they pack such ominous tidings into such a small timespan, but pack it they did. The “Dark Age” teaser is in slow motion, angry, and of course… dark.

Check out that, two more “From the Set” videos, the poster, and the revealed premiere date below.

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (SDRR)
Season 1 Episode 4: “What You Like Is In The Limo”
Created by Denis Leary
Directed by Michael Blieden
Written by Denis Leary
Starring Denis Leary, John Corbett, Elizabeth Gillies, John Ales, Robert Kelly, Elaine Hendrix, Josh Pais
FX
Air Date: Thursday, August 6th, 2015, 10:00pm

Last week on Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, those crazy kids decided to create a Johnny Rock (Denis Leary) death hoax, in order to get buzz about the new band, with Gigi (Liz Gillies) as the frontwoman. There’s a lot of fun imagining the death method.

Ira (Josh Pais): “What if somebody shot you?”

Gigi’s debut is a success! There’s a cool father-daughter musical moment that definitely pulls at the heartstrings. Joan Jett has a cameo, and she looks lovely and badass at the same time, as usual.

Good news fellow strigoi-hunters! The Strain, the FX series from Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse, based on the books by del Toro and Chuck Hogan, has been renewed for a 3rd season. Well deserved, as this crazy show has been non-stop interesting and scary, with twists and turns galore.

FX has released a ton of videos for The Bastard Executioner airing this fall, including more “From The Set” clips from Stephen Moyer (Miles Corbett), Lee Jones (Wilkin Brattle), and Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Lady Love Ventris). They have also shown 10-15 second teasers of a single concept during some of their other shows. I always catch them during The Strain, when I have to rewind back again, as I was fast forwarding through my DVR recording.

Watch the videos and check out the synopsis below.