What We Do in the Shadows Season 5
What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)
What We Do in the Shadows Season 4
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
501: The Mall 2023 July 13
(First watched 2025-02-11) So after some beating around the bush... Guillermo is a vampire... sort of? He's concerned that the transformation is taking longer than he expected. As viewers we don't have much of a baseline for what's considered normal, though. Back in season 1 Jenna took a few episodes for the changes to go all the way. And Guillermo is having some effects, like his eyesight seems to have been repaired.
Buuuut he also learns that a familiar getting turned into a vampire by someone other than their master is a huge insult which basically leads to murder-suicide. Once again, something that could have been brought to my attention yesterday!
502: A Night Out with the Guys 2023 July 13
(First watched 2025-02-13) For a change Sean and his human friends create the biggest craziness for most of this episode, until Nandor has to fix things by hypnotizing the cops into believing that he and Laszlo are Sully Sullenberger and Tom Selleck, respectively.
So over at the Baron's they tested "double vampiring" his neighbor, and he exploded... but didn't Derek go through the same steps as him and not explode? Sucking his blood, and having his blood sucked in return? Or is order of operations important here?
503: Pride Parade 2023 July 20
(First watched 2025-02-13) What a very silly episode. Sean's attempt to suck up to the LGBTQ community is obviously forced for votes, but feels genuine enough. Loving his "Ay, I'm Bein' Gay Ova Here!" shirt.
Laszlo trying to study Guillermo to figure out what his ~vampire deal is, and actually succeeding in using his sweat to create a sort of effective sunscreen for himself.
Nandor being jealous of Guillermo hanging out with Laszlo, and spiting them both my flying to outer space with a GoPro. Seeeeriously, what a ridiculous premise, and the camera shots were just as good.
And last but not least, Nadja and Doll Nadja trading bodies so Doll Nadja could lose her virginity... which just got even creepier by the end of the episode with Doll Nadja and Colin Robinson both in Nadja's body, with Nadja-in-Doll-Nadja's body and Laszlo in bed with them. They are all certainly very proud.
Of course for a comedy show we aren't supposed to think too hard about real fixes to their problems, but considering what a low value they place on human life (frequently killing them by sucking their blood and all), and how apparently easy it is to swap bodies... couldn't they just steal another body for Doll Nadja to keep?
504: The Campaign 2023 July 27
(First watched 2025-02-14) Energy vampires as the guardians of bureaucracy makes a lot of sense. Nice to see Gregg Turkington in the Supreme Council of Energy Vampires.
505: Local News 2023 August 3
(First watched 2025-02-14) The group overreacting to a fixable issue is generally a good time, and so it is here. Though Colin Robinson going all Rambo in booby-trapping the house felt a bit weird. Maybe the best bit was the very end when to not cause a disruption they just had to play it straight and act as news anchors for the last few minutes of the show.
Guillermo tries to have a "goodbye" dinner with his mom, but apparently he's been doing this weekly. Dude seems in a bad way. Though again we see some evidence of vampiric changes, in that wearing a crucifix necklace starts burning him.
506: Urgent Care 2023 August 10
(First watched 2025-02-14) OK, so now Guillermo can (sort of) float, too. But weirder than that, Laszlo injected his blood into frogs, which now can also fly... and have hair... and uhhh are starting to talk. What the hell? Surely other vampires' blood being injected into a frog wouldn't do that? Though I don't know who would be trying.
Colin Robinson almost dies from inadvertently being too interesting and thus unable to feed. Sure can't go very long without a meal. Also seems like a good time to go back to feeding on people online?
507: Hybrid Creatures 2023 August 17
(First watched 2025-02-15) In a totally different way, but having a bunch of... talking sentient animals imbued with your DNA is maybe the most fucked-up thing since Freddie. Binky looks much like a Seaman.
Fun seeing Nandor's lost luggage in the history museum, as well as the new version of history Colin Robinson creates for him.
Nadja still failing to make much headway on this hex thing.
508: The Roast 2023 August 24
(First watched 2025-02-15) The Baron has been so comedic in later appearances that it's weird to see him back to the threatening guy he seemed like when he first showed up... at least for a while.
The Baron thought he killed Guillermo, but it seems it was Binky? Who apparently kept evolving from a fish to a much more humanoid form! I wonder what the other mutants are like now.
I don't think I've mentioned it yet, but Schaal's addition to the opening credits this season seems a bit perfunctory. Like, they didn't want to redo the whole thing, so they just sped some bits up and spliced in a couple seconds for her credit.
At this point basically everyone knows Guillermo is a vampire except Nandor.
509: A Weekend at Morrigan Manor 2023 August 31
(First watched 2025-02-16) That it was some sort of murder mystery thing where they'd disappear one by one, easy to see. That The Guide was involved, also easy to see. But still worked well enough.
Nandor knows about Guillermo and he is PISSED.
510: Exit Interview 2023 August 31
(First watched 2025-02-17) A bit anticlimactic that after all the wondering why he hadn't fully transformed, they solve the problem then just revert Guillermo in the space of a few onscreen minutes. Well, this proves the thing about what happens to a vampire's "children" when they're killed, which some of them were doubtful about seasons back.
RIP Patton Oswalt.
Nandor is usually portrayed as quite clueless, but at least as portrayed in the latter half of this episode he displays a good understanding of Guillermo. The years-long delays of turning him into a vampire, here shown as if he realized Guillermo wasn't cut out to be a vampire. Then creating the whole fake ceremony as a way to give Guillermo an out.
Though, nobody seems to care much anymore about the rule of vampires not killing vampires, do they? Even the Baron has nothing to say about Nandor killing Derek as a matter of convenience.