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TV Media Weekly | August 29 - September 4, 2015 horror-adventure show about a vampire epidemic? If you guessed a muscle-bound luchador, you're absolutely correct. A masked cru- sader named Angel (Joaquín Cosío, "Quantum of Solace," 2008) ap- pears in the fray and decides that he's going to relive his glory years as a wrestler — but this time his opponents are the living dead. "What I like is the idea that a real Mexican wrestler is fighting real vampires," said del Toro, as re- ported by "Collider." "It's not tongue-in-cheek. It's not wink- wink. These are real monsters and a guy that used to be a wrestler but now works as a waiter in an Indian restaurant in New York. So it's a re- ally down-to-earth reality to the Mexican wrestler genre, and it's a character I've been thinking about for ages." Del Toro isn't the only one think- ing about the characters. Due to the scheduling of season 1's air date and the beginning of filming for season 2, many actors from the show were able to dissect their own characters' performances, which gave them the opportunity to hyper-analyze and dig deeper for anything that would boost their performance. "I was really grateful that I had that opportunity to sit back, as a spectator, and watch it. I did a ton of homework on trying to figure out who he is, and the books were very informative, but I had to fill in a lot of blanks too," said Durand to "Collider." "I just felt like I was re- ally heavily armed with a lot of knowledge about who I thought this guy is now. I felt like I knew him a lot more, going into the sec- ond season. I feel really settled in him." By Rory MacDonald- Gauthier TV Media T he 2010s decade has been a bloody entertaining one so far, that's for certain. In the past few years, we've seen AMC's juggernaut "The Walking Dead" dominate the zombie-apoc- alypse-survival genre and HBO's "True Blood" sink its teeth into the vampire drama scene. Enter FX's "The Strain," which blends the best of both catastro- phes — undead vampires have taken over New York City, and in the midst of surviving, a select few are looking to cure the epidemic through medicine or flat-out elimi- nating the night walkers. With sea- son 2 now underway, catch an all- new episode of "The Strain" airing Sunday, Aug. 30, on FX. "The Strain" began as a horror novel trilogy created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan and was originally imagined as a television series. After countless unsuccessful attempts to pitch it to networks, though, del Toro decided to adapt the idea into a series of books, and in 2011, graphic novel publisher Dark Horse Comics began "The Strain's" transition into comic book form, with the series running for 32 issues. It premiered on FX last summer, and the premise is pretty straight- forward: a genetic disease takes hold of New Yorkers and turns them into vampires. Hundreds of thousands of citizens run amok crying for help, but no one outside NYC is willing to lend a hand. As with most shows, the first season focused on introducing characters, including epidemiolo- gist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll, "House of Cards"), looking to save the world through medicine; Eph's close ally, Dr. Nora Martinez (Mía Maestro, "Alias"); Holocaust survivor Prof. Abraham Setrakian (David Bradley, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," 2001); and nail gun-wielding rat exterminator Vasiliy Fet (Kevin Du- rand, "Vikings"). "A lot of the first season we spent following each character and learning about the biology of the virus and how it completely changes human beings into some- thing completely different, gro- tesque and scary, but oddly kind of beautiful at the same time," said Durand in an interview with "Col- lider." "That's what Guillermo [del Toro] does. I feel like everything in the second season is just turned up, which might include that fear of losing your favorite character. It's so damn scary. We don't want to lose anybody." Turned up indeed, as this season not only builds on previously es- tablished characters through addi- tional timelines and flashbacks, but it also introduces new vampire hunters. What's the most ridiculous character you could insert into a Mía Maestro as seen in "The Strain" 'The Strain' sinks its teeth into character development 2 | Cover story Tipton Ford 3 x 10" A/Grindstone Charlie's B/Norris Insurance 1 x 4" 455-2700 3833 S. 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