'The Passage' Keeps Its Viral Vamps Waiting In The Wings, For Now
This FOX series based on the Justin Cronin trilogy combines the pulpiest elements of science-gone-awry thrillers with shlocky creature-features, but — early on at least — skimps on the fun.
The bestselling trilogy of novels by Justin Cronin -- and — collectively form an epic tale, sweeping in scope. Combining apocalyptic fiction with straight-up horror, the books hop around in time — well, I say "hop" — they around in time, from the near-future, when a secret team of government scientists attempts to develop a formula that will render humanity immune to disease, to 1,000 years hence, long after bright idea has borne its inevitable, nasty, blood-sucking fruit: vampires called "virals" that have wiped out most of the world.
