This past weekend, I was enjoying my Sunday routine of relaxation and watching the latest television series from FX, The Strain. While I do thoroughly enjoy the vampire/zombie/apocalyptic mashup, some of the characters’ backgrounds feel a little forced. For example, Kevin Durand’s character, Vasiliy Fet, is a second generation Russian living in Brooklyn, NY. His occupation: exterminator for the NYC Bureau of Pest Control. Of course, like any good Russian rat-killer, viewers of the show find out that he has a difficult past with his father, a scholar of architecture. For you see, Fet had a scholarship to get his … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Watching FX No Strain on University Presses