the strain is a television series in the horror drama genres
the strain is an american horror drama television series that premiered on fx on july 13  2014
it is this narrower sense that the film and television industries  along with film studies  adopted to describe  drama  as a genre within their respective media
horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to  or has the capacity to frighten  scare  disgust  or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror