"The Strain" season 2 premiere has aired last week and just like its pilot in the first season, it offered one hour of intense and thrilling television.
Long before its second season debut, it was discussed that the show will expand, territory-wise. The show's EPs and its original author Guillermo del Toro also revealed new breeds of vampires are coming. All of these played out in the first episode.
It was a quality hour during "The Strain" season 2 premiere. It was full of suspense until the last few seconds and prepared the audience for more electrifying and terrifying episodes to come.
The cliffhanger in the first episode of season two is probably the biggest story-arc the show has offered since its freshman year.
"The Feelers" is the name given by Guillermo del Toro to the blind kids who turned into vampires during "The Strain" season 2 premiere. These little freaks are victims but in their new state, they are definitely huge threats.
"The Feelers are basically blind children who turn into these super-speedy, really horrific vampire creatures," executive producer Carlton Cuse said of the blind kids during an interview with Den of Geek.
"And they're awesome, and they're a creation of Guillermo [del Toro] and Chuck [Hogan] from the books, and we sort of decided this was a great way to ramp up the force of opposition in season two. One of the things I love about the books that drew me to the project is there's these sort of multiple layers of antagonism. You know in The Walking Dead you have one kind of zombie. In our show, we have all sorts of different vampires with different agendas, different powers."
While the rise of Feelers will surely make things worse in the city where more and more people get infected by the "vampire-virus," Abraham, Elph, and Vasiliy Fet (Kevin Duran) better double their effort because the freaks are not the only enemy.
And no, this other threat is not infected by the virus. Co-executive producer Chuck Hogan said Samantha Mathis's character is as dangerous as the vampire encountered before.
"[She's] this city council woman in Staten Island," Hogan said "Staten Island because of its geography, they're able to clear out the vampires from there. And she kind of rises to prominence in New York City due to defeating vampires. It's a character that wasn't in the book at all; it really grew out of us thinking big picture what we need for season two, and how to sort of personify New Yorkers response to this plague."
