EPISODE
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
6 November 1953, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
14 October 1972, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
26 January 1984, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
4 August 1968, Pusan, South Korea
19 June 1972, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
20 February 1966, Terceira, Açores, Portugal
13 April 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
25 January 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
20 June 1989, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
1951, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
16 December 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
5 June 1966, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
31 March 1974, Wrexham, North Wales, UK
25 January 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 04, 2020
The four-hour miniseries about a mysterious plague is light on moving personal drama and heavy on complicated science theories involving bacteria, binary codes and worm holes. Unfortunately, it is short on suspense until the final 30 minutes.March 04, 2020
The result is smart, taut and visually compelling.March 04, 2020
For about three hours and 40 minutes, the mini-series rockets along, an exciting pile of preposterousness with conspiratorial overtones. Then it fizzles, with stuff you've seen 1,000 times before, and irritating loose ends.March 04, 2020
This production ramps up the cheesiness and soap-opera hysterics along with the improved special effects.March 04, 2020
This version of the story is paced well; it gives Crichton's story a hint of blandness, but it also marches through the plot with no-nonsense efficiency.March 04, 2020
What starts out as a serviceable disease thriller descends into a preposterous and dreary mess that bogs down in one boring and meaningless expository chat fest after another.March 04, 2020
There is WAY more backstory laid with the characters than we even remotely need.March 04, 2020
The effects are sometimes too obviously computerized, the back stories of family and romance unnecessary. But overall, it's quite an entertaining piece of high-velocity intrigue.March 04, 2020
The production does have its heart-stopping moments, just not enough to support a four-hour investment.March 04, 2020
From the opening I was gripped, and even the presence of Benjamin Bratt wasn't enough to hinder my enjoyment.March 04, 2020
Eminent producing brothers Ridley and Tony Scott have prolonged the flick to miniseries length. Truly awful acting and often silly dialogue botch any tension.March 04, 2020
Tapping into 21st-century paranoia, the latest "Strain" cultivated from Michael Crichton's novel combines a messy hodge-podge of elements, each of them pallid compared with that earlier go-round.