The worm has been turned away.
Billboards for FX's The Strain, with creepy critters crawling out of (or perhaps boring into?) human eyeballs, are apparently too much for some folks to bear, and the cable network says it is replacing the ads in several locations—the signs have run in Los Angeles and New York—with less-upsetting imagery.
The series was hatched by director Guillermo del Toro and writer Chuck Hogan and slithers onto TV screens July 13.
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