'The Strain' TV Series Is Much More Than Creepy Vampires; Cartoonish Characters With A Hilarious Twist Makes The Already-Compelling Show A Real Must-Watch?

"The Strain" TV series is much more than creepy vampires as the creators also populated it with cartoonish characters whose unique traits and goofiness make them just as interesting to watch. 

According to GlobalAndMail, "The Strain" TV series' creepy vampires provide a welcome addition from the uber-gorgeous, glamorous bloodsuckers that have dominated the screen, which focused on romance. 

Ephraim (Corey Stoll) spearheads the main cast line-up, along with Abraham Setrakian, a gray-haired Holocaust-survivor-cum-pawnshop-owner who keeps a live pumping heart stored in a glass jar.Globalmail.com likens his character to those featured in "Tales from the Crypt."

Going back to Ephraim, he sports a wig that could never be mistaken for real hair, with its hairline receding beyond normal on one side and with the glue showing at that. 

The four survivors featured in "The Strain" TV series also present amusing quirky traits exemplified in both their physical appearances and personalities.  One is an arrogant lawyer with a head of distinctive curls. She makes it clear to the doctor zipping her tent close that she is not an ordinary passenger. 

The other one is rock singer a-la Marilyn Manson style who wears a raven colored wig and a has a heavily scarred forearm, which he admits to be due to his fondness for cutting himself. The third character is a rat exterminator, and the fourth is the man behind the vampire outbreak himself, the immortality-hungry, sinister one-percenter who dwells in a tower right in the middle of the town. 

And lest forgotten, there are the "The Strain" TV series' creepy vampires themselves. Setting aside their obvious difference with the "Twilight" and "True Blood" versions in the good looks department, Screenrant.com aptly defined the show's vampires as macroviral agents, meaning they propagate their species by spreading a virus that infects and transforms people into one of them. 

The GlobalMail describes "The Strain" TV series as beautiful, slick and hilariously fun.