"The Strain" Season 3 is rumored to be cancelled for season 4 after FX Network lessened its episode order. Aside from that, the official plot description of episode 5 'Madness' has been released, while last week's episode 4 'Gone But Not Forgotten' is provided here for fans who have missed to watch it.
Rumors have spread that "The Strain" Season 3 would serve as the farewell season of the show. Such rumors stemmed when FX Network lessen their episode order, instead of the usual 13 episodes, the current season is just a 10-episodic run.
This then ignited the cancellation rumors since a decrease in the episode order is an indication that the show is nearing its end, Movie News Guide reports.
As for the official plot synopsis of "The Strain" Season 3 episode 5, Hollywood Hills notes,"New information from the Lumen, is going to force Abraham Setrakian (David Bradley) to seek help from his lifelong nemesis, Eldritch Palmer (Jonathan Hyde). Eph's new experiments to understand strigoi communication will seemingly take him to the brink of madness while Alexei Fet (Damir Andrei) will be on a mission to discover strigoi movements across New York City.
For a quick recap of last week's episode 4 'Gone But Not Forgotten', Celebrity Dirty Laundry reported that Setrakian and Eph worried about the additional work to be done while Fet wanted to celebrate.
Elsewhere, Justine Feraldo (Samantha Mathis) drafted a reluctant army in the battlefield while Thomas Eichorst (Richard Sammel) lashed out and planned to strike back.
"The Strain" Season 3 episode 5 is entitled as "Madness". The upcoming episode is scheduled to premiere on Sunday, September 25, 2016, at 9:00 p.m. first and exclusive on FX Network.
"The Strain" is an American horror drama TV series created by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, and executively produced by Carlton Cuse.