'The Passage' season 1: In a sea of bloodsuckers and power-hungry fools, Brad and Amy are the only hope for humanity
This may contain spoilers for The Passage season 1 episode 5: How Are You Gonna Outrun the World?
Fox's ongoing show 'The Passage' brought Justin Cronin's trilogy of the same name to life on the TV screen and has so far done a pretty neat job with paced out action and simplistic storytelling. But while the show mingles three different burning genres of supernatural, sci-fi, and dystopia, it has also managed to portray a clear distinction between monsters and ambitious fools, and their more humanized counterparts. With most of the show's characters falling into the first two categories, the last one has spots reserved by the two protagonists - Amy Bellafonte and her savior, Brad Wolgast.
Talking about monsters with superhuman strengths, 'The Passage' revolves around the story of a medical trial gone wrong in the attempt of seeking a cure for all of humanity's diseases. Called Project NOAH, the trial involved 12 subjects who were injected with a virus from a South American bat that's also believed to be the origins of the vampire legend. While this virus did manage to provide superhuman abilities to the subjects, the power came in the form of immense strength and vampiric bloodthirst, turning these 'virals' into scientifically created 'vampires' of sorts.
