

You don’t want to be eliminating good ideas just because they’re not in the book. I love the collaborative nature of television, so in concert with writers in the writers room you start working on stories and other ideas come up. I think it’s the best season of the show and pretty engaging.”Ĭarlton Cuse: “My style as a showrunner is a very organic one. It was the first time I’ve ever directed. Can the humans fight the Strigoi out of New York? And as New York goes, so goes the world. And the season’s really about full-tilt war. Sort of like smoking…everybody realizes now that smoking is bad. There’s no denial anymore that it’s a threat. Season three there’s really no doubt that there’s Strigoi out there. I think the show needs to be kinetic and this season is definitely kinetic. I think moving to a 10 episode model is much better for this show. It just felt like in season two that it was hard to sustain 13 episodes as well as we wanted. What can you tease about the upcoming season and how it differs from the first two?Ĭarlton Cuse: “I think one of the big differences is we’re only doing 10 episodes this season by design, and so the narrative velocity is much faster.

Without giving away any real spoilers, Cuse did say he believes this third season is the show’s best season yet. Hogan and showrunner Carlton Cuse provided a little insight into the upcoming season three, which is set to debut on FX on August 28, 2016, during our roundtable interview. You’re really going to hopefully get a sense of what it’s like to be living in this plague time.” But I feel like actually in my mind there’s a little bit of looseness in this season. I don’t know if it’s darker…there are dark things in it as there have been from the first minute of the show, so it’s hard to get darker.

“It’s great to come here and say we’re getting better every season,” said Hogan during our interview at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. The Strain writer/executive producer Chuck Hogan says season three of the FX horror series isn’t necessarily darker in tone than the first two seasons, but it is much more expansive than seasons one and two. Ruta Gedmintas, Chuck Hogan, Richard Sammel, Miguel Gomez, Kevin Durand, and Carlton Cuse from ‘The Strain’ at Comic Con 2016 (Photo © Richard Chavez / Showbiz Junkies)
