What We Do in the Shadows (TV) main character POLL

it's not bad, i guess? it's just purposely self-referential, self-congratulatory, high drama nerdery and full-time situational world building and rebuilding. Construct, tear down, etc.

the last episode features nadja hosting youtube panel conversations with famous dead people (don't ask, doesn't matter) and the joke is that Gandhi has to read and ad that sells steaks for Blue Apron. that's more or less where we're at now.

first half of this season was not great, but it improved a lot with the wedding etc

the mistake is the worldbuilding and getting so far outside the dynamic between the main characters that it becomes reliant on just incongruity which isn’t enough

like the pinebarrens ep was great because it hinged more on nandor & lazlo beefing
and not just “what if camping”

S4 had some high points (night market, wedding ep) but the season finale was a huge bummer with few lols, guys this is supposed to make us laugh not want to off ourselves

Spent far too long chuckling at all Lazlo's vampire band names: Gloria Estefang, Bat Stevens, Batboy Slim, Hall & Throats etc

yeah the finale was pretty underwhelming. the whole nightclub plot felt like a waste of 2 funny actresses and I don't really care what happens to Guillermo anymore. the Colin Robinson stuff was good though. I'd say like....half the episodes this season were really funny.

I'm on ep8 of the new season and it's great, pleased to report that you're all wrong.

(even if the finale is not great, I'm still in)

Finally caught up with this now, Season 4 was definitely the weakest one but still had some amazing highs.

I've taken to using Nandor's "this fuck-king guy" to ease my exasperation when I see a driver do something stupid.

New season starts next month

Glad they got another one in pre-writer's strike tbh

I haven't seen anything about it, weirdly, but I'm extremely glad to have new episodes of this again.

Ok they're dropping classics, so far this is the best the show has been in a few years.

I'm waiting for it to begin on Disney+

I thought it couldn’t get any more cringe at the end of the episode and then that mid-credits scene popped in

lmaooo oh god that mid credit scene - it took me a minute to realize what i was looking at and then i was like nooooooo

once Colin Robinson started listing movie years I was like "ok that has to be an On Cinema reference" and then look who showed up. plus wasn't that other lady the woman from Joe Pera Talks to You??

but yeah the show is definitely very good again, I was worried it was gonna turn into an Arrested Development type situation but thus far this is probably the funniest season yet

Nandor DeLaurentiis

Is there a running list of which episodes have mid credit sequences? I think I've seen the first two episodes of the current season but never thought to wait around.

"Local News" maybe the best episode of the series yet, both the opening and closing scenes were probably the funniest the show's ever been. and the stuff with Guillermo's family was legitimately tense!

I was dying when his mom was like "this is the third time he's given me this talk this month"

Nandor going to outer space was Jackie Daytona-level for me, really enjoying this season so far

xp they know something's up. seems clear they don't buy his "railroad" story and with his mom feeling his back like that, I think she knows

Man I started losing interest last season, sounds like I'm going to have to catch up now (and re-watch the Jackie Daytona episode).

I like the implication that Guillermo is becoming more narcissistic as part of his vampire transition, or maybe it's always been that way from his family's pov.

Love this season so far.

(Sally Rhubarb, lol)

apropos of nothing I just remembered one of my favorite lines in the show, Nadja talking about Colin Robinson: "he's not a wild card, he's the card at the top of the deck with all the rules on it that you just throw away"

loved last season w/ creepy child Colin and Laszlo becoming a father

The Local News episode is easily one of my favorites of the series

the way Nandor panics and runs away from the camera after the newslady jokes "guess we found out the secret to eternal life" is so funny

obviously the show's entire universe is pretty untenable - it's never really explained why the city isn't in a constant panic over the fact that people are consistently being mysteriously murdered and drained of all their blood - but I like the implication that Staten Island is so full of freaks and weirdos that nobody really notices a bunch of vampires walking around in plain sight

I so now want them to do an episode where Nandor learns how to drive and goes to the license branch and his license reads.

Nandor DeLaurentiis

every single line reading by Matt Berry seems like he's trying to get the other actors to laugh

also - pretty deep Happy Mondays cut in the credits this week :)

Oh Jesus the Guillermo plot is fucked up this week

At first I thought why hadn't they learned into Doctor Moreau more then I remembered in the Pride episode Laszlo smothered himself in thick white cream made from Guillermo's sweat and swanned around looking like Brando in the Richard Stanley version.

last two eps were pretty good though you can really feel the tension between what a drama wants to do and what a sitcom wants to do. still it's nice they at least revealed the reason why Nandor hadn't turned Guillermo

Really enjoyed all the Guillermo/Nandor/Laszlo stuff with the turning and the experiments and whatnot throughout this season, but Kristen Schaal has been a total miss for me as a character. I was not happy to see her added to the main cast, and I don't think she's done the show any favours.

yeah I genuinely don't understand what the point of her character is

Probably good that they reset to the status quo at the end of the season (rather than doing a cliffhanger and resolving everything in the first few minutes of the next season, like they did that one time).

Last two eps weren't my favorites but had their moments, otherwise it was a classic season imo.

yeah I'm glad they didn't do that again. I'm curious what exactly happened there, felt clearly like they were planning to split the characters up for a bit but maybe they didn't have the budget. or maybe they thought Season 4 would be the last one at the time. idk I really doubt they wanted it to turn out the way it did

the shows pacing is overall pretty weird I think, the stuff that happens in the final episode here I think could've been like four separate episodes. this show has this tendency to just do things and then undo them. all the sudden changes of heart and solving things via making up random rules kinda makes the show feel like Power Rangers but it still is really funny and well made so I guess I don't care much

I think it's kind of funny everything goes back to relative normal. Presumably this has just been happening the entire time they've been on Staten Island. Vampire life is very mundane, then they do something dumb and there's a mild crisis, only for them to forget it within weeks. Rinse and repeat for a hundred years.

I did like the massacre in the Italian restaurant as a reminder that they do murder lots of people on the regular, when they're not sitting in their favorite chairs reading books in the parlor. Patton Oswalt cameo was a bit unnecessary but the payoff was funny, but not as funny as "PanERa bread".

the panera bit was good

The Guillermo hybrids need their own show. Always amazed at how good this half hour FX comedy looks compared to any Netflix 9 digit budget series.

a few cameras, the house set, and the clearance sale at spirit halloween every year and you're ready to go

I hated the creepy hybrids, but most everything else I've seen of this season so far has been aces.

Haven't watched the last two eps yet, but this newest season is so good.

UK people, s5 is going to be on Disney+ next week. The film is on BBC or something next week too

I binged the last season over a few days. The last episode was a real gut punch for me. Spending years aiming for something and then realizing that it's not for you, that hit home.

I don't know how they can do that in a show where all of the main characters are mass murderers, but they did it.

I don't think I've ever laughed harder than at the moment in the S5 local news episode where Colin Robinson is trying to be the weatherman and there is blood smeared all over the weather wall from Kristen Schaal munching on the real weatherman in the corner of the shot.

The local news episode is one of the funniest eps of the entire series

it’s an incredible episode lol