'The Strain' season 2: More fun with the world's least-complicated vamps

FX's gratifyingly gross horror drama "The Strain" returns for a second season Sunday night -- and not a moment too soon, as summertime TV grapples with a serious case of the blahs.Guillermo del Toro, Carlton Cuse and Chuck Hogan's saga of New York falling prey to an epidemic of viral vampirism can't really claim much in the way of originality or artistic breakthrough, but it does have the confidence and sense of purpose that defines good, pulpy genre fiction. It is scary without being particular...