The Strain (TV Series) Extraction (2017) User Reviews

The Farewell to Setrakian

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 31 January 2019]

Eph and Dutch return to their base and see Creem and Eichhorst dead. Then they meet Gus that discloses the tragic end of Alex and when they see Setrakian, they realize that he is also infected. Setrakian is writing notes about the Lumen to help his friends to destroy The Master. Roman and the group cross the Hudson by boat to reach Manhattan and hide the van and the warhead at the Federal Reserve. Roman is left behind to take care of the nuke and Fet and Quinlan go to their base to tell the news to Setrakian. But soon he finds that he is turning into a vampire and Quinlan cuts his head off; then they bury him. Fet inherits his silver sword and they read Setrakian´s notes and the effects of a nuclear explosion in Manhattan. Dutch suggests they kidnap Sanjay to learn the location of The Master. Meanwhile The Master assigns Zach to meet Eph to learn the location of the nuclear device.

"Extraction" is another great episode of "The Strain' and the farewell to Setrakian. The show is full of action and the death of Setrakian is the sad part. The return of the despicable Zach is the annoying part of the show. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Extraction"

Goodbye Setrakian [8/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 8/10 · 31 August 2023]

Reaction / Review for The Strain Season 4 Episode 8 ''Extraction'' (S4. E8): Episode 7 was good and I gave it a rating 8.6/10. With no bridges, they had to use a boat, makes sense. Nice to see the team back together. Watching Quinlan cut Setrakians's head off made me really emotional. I will miss Setrakian, by far the best character of the series. Using a bomb to kill the Master doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Zach is willing to do anything the Master desires, it's pathetic. I hate Desai, he is such a coward, im glad they got him now. Quinlan being bad-ass as always. And the episode ends with Eph finding Zach, that's not good. My rating is... 8/10.

Worms infested the Author's Brains

[pontram · 5 September 2017]

I never took 'The Strain' serious as a show, but admittedly it has its moments, most of them with the characters of Setrakian and Quinlan, some with Palmer, Eichhorst and Fet.

In previous episodes we learned that the drug 'Warfarin', historically a rat poison, is also poisonous and lethal for the Strigoi. In Episode seven Eichhorst made the mistake to drink Setrakians blood, who took a big overdose of Warfarin before (how long does it take for that drug to be completely in the human blood stream, one had NOT to ask), and so he was weakened enough to be finally beheaded by his enemy.

That hurt the Master, because he lost his executioner, and you may NOT ask yourself, why the Master is such an idiot and had not the foresight to make some others to be second in command, but OK, the script didn't let him, so he was really stung (also strategically) by his Padawan's demise.

***Begin Spoiler*** In this episode, we expected Satrakian to be healed, but, surprisingly, he had to die. Not that it matters for the show in its final stage, with only two episodes left.

Since we already witnessed that blood thinner kills Strigoi, it is to expect that the infesting worms are at least affected by the drug that made their previous owner foam....which could give the 'White' that Eph previously made the opportunity to do its work and heal and strengthen Setrakian, or at least help him survive the Warfarin overdose.

But no, nobody in the gathered group has the idea to use an UV light for testing the victim for infestation, nor did anyone suggest to wait for the outcome. Quinlan has to do the final job of mercy, and we don't see if Setrakian was really infested by living worms. Guess why ? After that, the group argues about the deployment of the nuke, which three of them brought to NY with great efforts and in great danger. Since the nuclear winter is already here (the world = USA, as ever), induced by one or more (there would be needed hundreds for that) nukes, it would make sense to destroy the Master with one, but someone (Eph) has reservations. Dying Setrakian had revealed another ominous plan. So many people in the city (which was already nuked once). ***End Spoiler***

In this episode (along with the complete Season 4) the facepalm-moments are so frequent, one thinks the show's authors are in a race to surpass themselves for the Guiness Book of Imbecility.