‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Once Again Ends On A Cliffhanger That Could! Change! EVERYTHING!

FX’s What We Do In The Shadows, a sitcom sequel to the 2014 film of the same name, portrays the lives of housemates who’re additionally vampires; whereas the movie was set in Wellington, New Zealand, the sitcom introduces us to a vampiric shared-house residing scenario on Staten Island, New York’s least glamorous borough. (A earlier spinoff sequence, Wellington Paranormal, follows the exploits of two cop characters from the movie as they’re recruited right into a unit investigating unexplained phenomena; within the U.S., it airs on The CW and streams on HBO Max.) The Staten Island vampires have, over time, handled zombies, werewolves, witches, newbie vampire hunters, cooler vampires who stay within the metropolis, and dangerously pleasant human neighbors. However this third season has discovered the crew coping with a few of their hardest challenges but — and as soon as once more leaves us on a cliffhanger that would! change! EVERYTHING! Let’s assess the Shadows TV characters’ journey up to now, and ponder what may very well be subsequent.

When the Staten Islanders are, within the Season 2 finale, lured to a theatre and ambushed with accusations of getting killed dozens of vampires, we know the precise killer is Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), devoted acquainted to his vampire grasp, Nandor The Relentless (Kayvan Novak). Having briefly gone house to kind by means of his emotions, Guillermo comes out of retirement to slaughter everybody within the theatre. Guillermo ultimately will get a promotion, of kinds, to bodyguard — however not so promoted that he doesn’t nonetheless additionally should do house responsibilities.

A lot of the vampires of the area having been killed within the theatre, The Information (Kristen Schaal) approaches the few survivors about taking on management of the Vampiric Council. When Nandor and his housemate Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) resolve to share the publish, the viewer learns that vampiric authorities companies have simply as a lot pointless forms as human ones; they simply additionally include impossibly huge libraries and cages filled with ghouls.

Not like Nadja and her husband Laszlo (Matt Berry), who’ve been collectively since she turned him centuries in the past, Nandor has actually grappled with loneliness this season. Hell, even power vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) discovered an actual reference to Sheila the siren (Catherine Cohen), remaining ensorcelled when she shat on his footwear. As Nandor confronts the fact of everlasting life as a singleton, and the ethics of imposing such an existence on one other, the potential for his turning Guillermo grows ever extra distant.

The final two episodes perform as a two-parter, because the true arc of the season turns into seen. Colin Robinson is happy to have fun his hundredth birthday…and he’s just about the one one, since Nandor and Nadja have been tasked to placed on a blood feast for a bunch of visiting vampire dignitaries. The one certainly one of Colin’s housemates who desires to heart his birthday is Laszlo, for causes he solely belatedly tells Nadja: whereas Colin has been making an attempt to grasp the place he got here from and the way power vampires work, Laszlo was the one to discover a ebook within the Vampiric Council’s library indicating that power vampires expire at their centennials. Nandor is pissed off to be roused from his “tremendous slumber” to say goodbye, not even believing Colin goes to die till he punches straight by means of Colin’s newly brittle head. 

Within the finale, Guillermo unsuccessfully tries to get everybody to speak by means of their grieving, however all of them have their very own concepts. Nandor, for one, desires to go away Staten Island. When Guillermo confronts him about his plans, the convenience with which Guillermo defends himself within the bodily battle that ensues convinces Nandor that Guillermo is lastly able to be a vampire; he’ll carry Guillermo with him on his journey and switch Guillermo after they return to Nandor’s ancestral land. Nadja’s going to take an enormous promotion on the Council headquarters in England, bringing Laszlo together with her. Besides: his information of Colin’s imminent dying wasn’t the one secret Laszlo’s been retaining. A child with Colin’s head has burrowed its means out of Colin’s corpse, so Laszlo’s going to remain and take care of him, tricking Guillermo right into a coffin to make the passage to England and be her acquainted there; in the meantime, a bereft Nandor stops ready for Guillermo on the station and boards a prepare, alone, to who is aware of the place.

This units up so many thrilling prospects for the present’s fourth season!

• The Guillermo/Nadja relationship is one which hasn’t been explored a lot so far. How will they get alongside? Can she bond with him the best way she has with the doll possessed by the ghost of human Nadja’s spirit? Will Nadja lastly flip Guillermo, since Nandor isn’t there to maintain his promise?
• I didn’t at all times suppose the office comedy surrounding the Vampiric Council was profitable this season, maybe as a result of it largely nonetheless concerned solely Nadja and Nandor (and The Information). However transporting Nadja to a higher-pressure office surroundings in England, and introducing new characters who additionally work there, may assist higher outline the Council plotlines, and likewise make clear what Nadja’s profession development would entail.
• We already received to see slightly of Laszlo’s loving take care of Colin Robinson after they have been each adults. Recontextualizing Laszlo as, primarily, Colin’s father looks as if it is going to essentially change their relationship without end. Even when Colin grows up rapidly — and there may be precedent for this in popular culture vampire lore! — will Laszlo proceed to think about Colin as his quasi-son?
• On his personal, will Nandor discover love? Or will he work out that he at all times had it proper in entrance of him, in Guillermo?

The producers of What We Do In The Shadows have, in every season, written themselves right into a seemingly unattainable scenario after which written themselves out in a very unpredictable method. The Season 3 finale might have arrange the most traps for all of the characters within the forged, and I’m not positive how we’ll all wait till subsequent 12 months to see how they free themselves.

Tv With out Pity, Fametracker, and Beforehand.TV co-founder Tara Ariano has had bylines in The New York Occasions Journal, Self-importance Truthful, Vulture, Slate, Salon, Mel Journal, Collider, and The Axe, amongst others. She co-hosts the podcasts Additional Sizzling Nice, Once more With This (a compulsively detailed episode-by-episode breakdown of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place), Hear To Sassy, and The Candy Scent Of Succession. She’s additionally the co-author, with Sarah D. Bunting, of A Very Special 90210 Book: 93 Absolutely Essential Episodes From TV’s Most Notorious Zip Code (Abrams 2020). She lives in Austin.

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