Johnny Ringo said:

Just got back into it. It's good fun but the pacing is very slow and a lot of the story progression requires characters to be complete morons some of the time.

Funny, that's been my experience with THE STRAIN so far. Also based on a book.

Edit: Just saw this week's episode. While the idiotic tendencies of characters was toned down it was still there somewhat.

On the plus side, the pacing seemed improved and it looks like things are about to get a whole lot more interesting.