The carousel of panel members continues as I (Mike) head out of town and leave the podcast in the hands of the other Strainiacs. This week David and Joe lead the charge into discussing this week’s episode titled “Quick & Painless”. I agreed with both that this week the show was a step in the right direction. I maintain that this show is its own worst enemy. The show seems to have an elastic time-slot that advances and retreats with an absurd amount of commercial breaks. The breaks in this show are killing more viewers than the vampires are killing in the show. We watch nonetheless. Always hopeful that this step in the right direction is followed by another foot. In the same direction.