I stopped after episode 6. After her brother commits a school shooting, Paige moves away form her town to live a life of quiet anonymity. She returns to her old home town when she learns that one of her former best friends has passed away. Perhaps because the premise involves the tragedy of a school mass shooting, I had set myself up for hoping The Elmwood Strain had something interesting to say. But it turns out to be an empty exercise in psychedelic horror. The villains are sign posted as abusive villains and never gain any dimension. You get the sense that Paige feels guilty for what has happened to them. But what exactly does Paige owe? Is she supposed to pay for her brother's crimes that she's never condoned? That's a ridiculously unfair standard. Is she corruptible like her brother or anyone else in the town, sort of like the self destructive characters of Annihilation? Well, if this plot thread even exists, it's very well hidden. This is a chase in which one thing happens after the other, but there's nothing that connects these occurrences to mean anything.