What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot
Shown 27 Mar 19
This is a mockumentary, in the manner of The Office.
The main difference is that the subjects of the show are a bunch of real-life vampires.
As the first episode of the series,
this not only introduces the main characters but also sets up some of the recurring plot-lines.
The main trio of vampires are a Gothic bunch who crossed the Atlantic over a century ago,
never moved further than Staten Island – and never updated their fashion sense either.
They have a more modern, but deeply despised, flatmate …
Colin Robinson the energy vampire.
He is basically a bureaucrat who feeds by sucking the hope out of his office cow-orkers.
What makes him so unpopular is that he is the only kind of vampire
who can actually feed on other vampires.
He does not even need to touch his victims, merely be in their presence,
The vampires’ familiar is Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
), an overweight Latinx who is evidently inspired by the Mexican horror director
Guillermo Del Toro
. His job is to find the vamps their favourite food – virgins!
To do this he joins the local LARP group.
The main storyline of this episode is the arrival of another vampire -
a centuries-old sub-sucker named The Baron.
He is old-fashioned,
and will not be happy at their lack of progress
in conquering the New World and enslaving humanity.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 2]
City Council
Shown 03 Apr 19
As per the Baron’s command, the vampires have to get involved in local politics.
Luckily, Colin is an expert. He loves the bureaucracy it involves,
which depresses the hell out of everyone else (and makes them easier for him to feed on).
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) and Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) decide to try influencing rival members of the local council.
Nadja feels sorry for one of the LARP group,
Vicki the virgin, and decides to turn her into a vampire.
This storyline will be played out in a later episode.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Werewolf Feud
Shown 10 Apr 19
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) is upset to discover that one of the local werewolves has broken the secret peace deal
by urinating in his garden, specifically on his topiary sculptures.
Things escalate quickly, and the werewolf pack comes calling.
They look like a mixed-race street gang from the 1980s.
Meanwhile, Colin Robinson gets his own subplot.
This show might be inspired by The Office,
but this is the one episode where it really goes back to his roots.
Colin’s workplace in the corporate bureaucracy is invaded by a
deadly rival – an Emotional Vampire.
If he does not fight to protect his feeding ground,
he may find himself pushed out and starving to death.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Manhattan Night Club
Shown 17 Apr 19
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) decides to strengthen his group’s position by making an alliance with the Manhattan vamps,
who are led by a night-club owner named Simon the Devious (Nick Kroll -
). The Staten Island vamps head over to the night club, dressed in their dated Goth garb.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) wears his favourite hat, made from the skin of witches.
Apparently the hat is cursed, which Laszlo refuses to accept,
and he chooses to ignore all the terrible accidents which ensue.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Animal Control
Shown 24 Apr 19
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) gets knocked unconscious while in his bat form,
and gets locked up by the local dog warden.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) tries to break into the pound and ave him.
Unfortunately, as it has already been established
government employees are practically impossible to hypnotise
because they are already dead on the inside.
Luckily Colin Robinson is around to indirectly save the day.
Nadja the female vamp finally gets a chance to date her soulmate Gregor (Jake McDormand -
Limitless
) again.
The first episode introduced him,
but this storyline has been ignored until now.
Basically he reappears in her life every few decades,
until he eventually gets decapitated and then reincarnated again.
For the date they go to a carnival fun-fair,
where she discovers that his new incarnation is incredibly boring
and lacks ambition of any kind.
Since vampires who live for centuries have a very low threshold for boredom,
this is not a good thing in any way.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Baron's Night Out
Shown 01 May 19
The Baron insists the others take him out for a night on the town.
Of course, he cannot consume human food without projectile vomiting -
but this does not stop him from trying the local pizza.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 8]
Citizenship
Shown 15 May 19
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) wants to get US citizenship.
He arranges the necessary appointments,
but the interview section itself lets him down quite badly.
Vicki the virgin has become a vampire, and Nadja brings her home to be mentored.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is less than pleased, because he has been working his ass off for a decade
and now even strangers are being given the gift of eternal life.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 9]
The Orgy
Shown 22 May 19
Nadja wants to host the greatest orgy in the vampire community.
Since they are a species of immortal blood-drinkers,
the annual orgy is the most important thing in their social calendar.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) turns out to have starred in dozens of crappy porno films,
and wants to show them at the orgy.
Nadja is not so keen on the idea.
Naturally Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) gets lumbered with all the chores to do.
The most important thing is to supply a tasty virgin for the meal.
It turns out that he might actually have to feed his own best friend to the vamps.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 10]
Ancestry
Shown 29 May 19
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) gives everyone DNA tests.
His own test results turn out to reveal some strange family secrets.
Despite being a Latino, he is somehow descended from a certain Dutch family
with a very ominous and familiar name.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) visits a distant descendant of his.
Well, it is already established that he lived before the year 1401 and had three dozen wives,
so he had hundreds of thousands of descendants.
Gregor (Jake McDormand -
Limitless
) breaks out of the asylum, and tries to visit Nadja.
Will he get decapitated yet again?
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 1]
Resurrection
Shown 15th April 2020
This is set a few months after the events of the previous Season.
Over the Summer break, Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) and Nadja have hired and lost half a dozen familiars.
Their newest one, Topher (Haley Joel Osment -
Futureman
), is also killed.
The good news is that Nadja is friends with a Necromancer (Benedict Wong -
Dr Strange
) who tries to bring Topher back.
The bad news is that he comes back as a zombie.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 2]
Ghosts
Shown 15th April 2020
The house turns out the be haunted.
The vamps do not believe in ghosts at first,
but eventually conduct a seance.
It turns out that Gregor (Jake McDormand -
Limitless
) is haunting Nadja because he has unfinished business with her.
The vamps conduct a second seance, and discover that they have ghosts of themselves.
Yes, when their bodies were killed and converted into vampires
their souls became ghosts with unfinished business.
Nandor's ghost only speaks his own langage,
which is extinct - and even Nandor has forgotten how to speak it.
Laszlo's ghost has been suffering centuries of sexual frustration.
Nadja's ghost decides to possess her doll, like
Annabelle
.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 3]
Brain Scramblies
Shown 22nd April 2020
The vampires visit their next-door neighbours
for the annual Superb Owl party.
Unfortunately the neighbour jokes that they might be vampires.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) try to hypnotise him at the same time,
which results in the man getting the Brain Scramblies.
This is not a good thing ... or is it?
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is out, searching for a new supply of virgins.
He attends a meeting for a nerdy club, run by Craig Robinson (
Hot Tub Time Machine
). Unfortunately the nerds are not actually obsessed with mosquitos.
They are hunting a different kind of flying blood-sucker!
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 4]
The Curse
Shown 29th April 2020
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) checks his email for the first time in a decade,
and discovers an old-fashioned chain email.
Being superstitious when the plot requires it,
he and the others assume the curse is real.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) has taken the evening off,
so he can meet up with Craig Robinson (
Hot Tub Time Machine
) and his other new friends in the Vamp Hunter club.
Unfortunately the hunters have decided to go on a mission.
With the bare minimum of training and preparation,
and no real plan of action,
they intend to attack a nearby house filled with vampires.
Yes, it looks like Guillermo is being forced to attack the friendly vamps.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 5]
Colin's Promotion
Shown 06 May 20
This is the Season's Colin Robinson episode,
so it is a lot more like The Office than the main storyline.
The Energy Vampire gets promoted at work,
which means he has unlimited feeding potential -
so his powers grow exponentially.
His hair grows back, he learns how to fly ...
and he can duplicate himself through supernatural mitosis.
The other vamps try redecorating,
and Colin selects a picture of Nadja's home village.
The picture depicts the day, two hundred years before Nadja's time,
when it was burned and pillaged by an army of unknown invaders.
Now she finally discovers what Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) was doing at that time.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 6]
The Retrurn
Shown 13 May 20
Nadja and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) meet Simon the Devious (Nick Kroll -
), last seen in
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 1, Episode 4] Manhattan Night Club
. Now he lives in the sewers, with a greatly reduced crew.
Colin Robinson has started feeding online by trolling people.
Unfortunately he runs into a much bigger troll.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 7]
On The Run
Shown 20 May 20
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) is confronted by his arch-enemy, Jim the Vampire (Mark Hamill -
Star Wars
). He flees to Pennsylvania,
because it sounds like Transylvania,
and becomes a roadhouse owner named Jackie Daytona.
The local girls' volleyball team needs funding for their tournamnet fees,
so he steps in to help with the crowdfunding.
His plan is to run a talent show contest,
and charge five dollars a head entry fee.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 8]
Collaboration
Shown 27 May 20
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) discovers that many songs he wrote are now major hits
that have been attributed to other people.
Somehow he avoided hearing any popular music in the previous fifty years,
but giving the vampires' archaic lifestyle that is not necessarily a stretch.
Colin Robinson advises Laszlo and Nadja to perform at a local Open Mic night.
If they want to get an emotional high by performing,
he will get satisfaction by feeding on their audience.
Nandor's old familiar from the 1970s returns,
and demands Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) make good on his promise to make him a vampire.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
), the current familiar,
realises he will probably be treated similarly
and decides to look for a better master.
He joins up with a girl at the monthly Familiars' Mixer,
although her promises seem too good to be true.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 2, Episode 10]
Nouveu Theatre Des vampires
Shown 10 Jun 20
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
), Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) and Nadja are invited to a prestigious event
for leading members of the local vampire community.
This appeals to their vanity, so they decide to go along.
They forget, of course,
that the Vampire Council sentenced them to death last year.
They would be better off keeping a low profile.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is the only one who can save them.
Unfortunately he has quit and gone home.
Worse, none of the vamps can remember his surname.
This is exactly the kind of thing that the vampire hunters would be useful at.
Unfortunately Craig Robinson (
Hot Tub Time Machine
) and the gang are nowhere to be seen.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 1]
The Prisoner
Shown 2nd Sept 2021
This is set a month after the events of the previous episode.
The vampires have locked Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) in a cage in the basement.
They do not seem too upset that he killed thirty-seven vampires,
and more that he might kill them.
The fact that he could have slaughtered them at any time in the last two years,
and only killed the other vamps in order to save his friends,
is not mentioned.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) wants to follow the warrior's code and save Guillermo,
while the others are a lot happier at the thought of killing their familiar.
In all honesty, they would have no idea of how to survive
of they did not have Guillermo to do everything for them.
Thanks to a cameo by Viago (Taika Waititi -
Thor: Ragnarok
), the team are offered a way out of their situation.
Although they broke the rules by having a vampire slayer as their servant,
they actually appear to be very good at getting stuff done.
In reality it is Guillermo who gets everything done.
Anyway, with the local vampiric council now final-deathed
there are a few vacancies available.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 2]
The Cloak of Duplication
Shown 2nd Sept 2021
The group are given a tour of the Vampire Council's HQ.
This includes the massive library filled with vampire lore.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is banned, but he manages to sneak around in the air ducts instead.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Nadia are fighting over who will be the leader.
They decide to track down a group of younger vampires
who have gone rogue, and neglected to pay membership dues.
While Nandor is away, he delegates an important matter to Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
). Naturally Laszlo delegates it to Colin Robinson.
The mission is to use a cloak of magical disguise to impersonate Nandor,
and seduce a woman at the local gymn on his behalf.
Of course, they are quite incompetent at it.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 3]
Gail
Shown 9th Sept 2021
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) has been hooking up with his ex-girlfriend, Grace.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) and Nadia both realise this is a bad idea,
and it will not end well.
Especially when the local werewolf clan get involved.
Back at the Vampire Council's library,
Colin is hard at work trying to discover the history of the Energy Vampires.
He gets distracted trying to help Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) recover his old car,
a 1900s jalopy that was confiscated by the old Council a century ago.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 4]
The Casino
Shown 16th Sept 2021
The Vamps have a lot of work to do for the Vampiric Council.
Instead they decide to take the weekend off,
so they can join their human neighbours on a party weekend at Atlantic City.
Colin Robinson and Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) are invited as well.
The Vamps have to bring a bag of their native soil with them,
or they will lose their powers and begin to fade away..
Unfortunately the room service maid vacuums their rooms,
and the soil gets sucked away.
Guillermo is sent to Europe to collect more soil samples.
The climax is an Oceans Eleven style heist storyline,
as the Vamps have to get enough money to pay back their hosts.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 5]
The Chamber of Judgement
Shown 23rd Sept 2021
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Nadia hold the first session of the new Vampiric Council of Staten Island.
Luckily Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is around to stop them from fighting
over who gets to sit on the throne.
Unfortunately one of the Vampire criminals who must be judged
is one of Guillermo's friends from the vampire slayer club.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) takes Colin Robinson to a Boys Night with the neighbour.
It turns out that the neighbour has followed his Atlantic City screw-ups
with a bad investment in a pyramid scheme of expensive pillows.
The bad news is that the creditor is taking him to the small claims court.
The good news is that Laszlo was a lawyer in England.
The bad news is that his last case was three centuries ago.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 6]
The Escape
Shown 30th Sept 2021
In the first episode of the Season,
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Nadja were given the responsibility of feeding the Sire.
Predictably, they forgot -
and the Sire got so hungry that he tunnelled out of his cell.
Now he has run wild on the streets of Staten Island.
Worse, the vamps follow the rule of
Vampire Diaries
, that when a vampire dies then everyone they have sired also dies.
Therefore, if The Sire - the oldest in the world -
gets killed, then every other vampire will also die.
Colin Robinson does not care,
because he assumes the Energy Vampires have a different bloodline.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) just does not believe in the rule,
because Guillermo's first kill in Season One was the Baron -
who sired Nadja, who sired Laszlo himself.
So either the rule is wrong, or the Baron somehow survived ...
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 7]
The Siren
Shown 7th October 2021
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) hijacks a speedboat and takes Colin Robinson out on a trip.
Their plan is to visit Plum Island,
rumoured to be the home of the Energy Vampires.
Unfortunately they are taken off-course by the song of the Siren.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 8]
The Wellness Center
Shown 14th October 2021
It is the seven hundredth anniversary of Nandor's ascension day.
Unfortunately this leads on to a midlife crisis,
and a severe bout of depression.
In an attempt to distract Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) from his depression,
and to avoid doing any work herself,
Nadia sends Nandor off to collect overdue membership fees
from a Wellness guru (
Cree Summer
). Unfortunately, in his vulnerable state Nandor gets inducted into the cult.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 9]
A Farewell
Shown 21st October 2021
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) is still brainwashed.
If anything, this is at least keeping his depression at bay.
He decides to go into Super-Slumber for the next hundred years.
The World Vampiric Council sends a committee to inspect the local Committee,
and see what kind of mess Nandor and Nadia have made of things.
The VIPs include the Contessa (
Khandi Alexander
) and Donal Logue (
Blade
).
It is Colin Robinson's hundredth birthday.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) seems especially keen to give Colin a good party.
At the end, we learn why Laszlo has been spending so much time with Colin this Season.
It is not just a screenwriting convenience,
like in Friends.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 3, Episode 10]
The Portrait
Shown 28th October 2021
After the death in the previous episode,
the survivors try to move on by having a new group portrait painted.
Luckily Donal Logue (
Blade
) is available, and he is an experienced hobbyist painter.
Viago (Taika Waititi -
Thor: Ragnarok
) messages Nadia on behalf of the World Vampiric Council,
offering her a job in England.
The immortal vamps hate waiting,
so they want her to immediately snail-mail them a VHS tape by reply.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 1]
Reunited
Shown 12 Jul 22
It has been a year since the end of the previous Season.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) has been trying to run the house while the others were away.
Unfortunately Colin Robinson looked after the finances,
and since Colin has been replaced by the creepy little child
the place has fallen apart.
However, now Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is back they might get some cleaning done.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 2]
The Lamp
Shown 12 Jul 22
Nadja wants to transform the vampire HQ into a vampire nightclub, like in
Blade
. Unfortunately the custodian (
Kristen Schaal
) objects. Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) uses his skills in the new science of psychiatry
in an attempt to control her subconscious.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) gives up his search for a new wife,
and instead decides to choose one of his previous 37 wives.
His treasure includes a djinn lamp,
and the genie gives him 52 wishes.
His second wish is to have all the wives back at once,
so he can work his way through them and decide which one is the keeper.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 3]
The Grand Opening
Shown 19 Jul 22
Nadja conducts the grand opening of her new vampire nightclub.
She has invited the top vampire rap artist,
but he is trapped in a suffocating relationship with his familiar.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) wants to please his new fiance.
He decides to use the genie's wishes to give himself the world's largest penis.
Luckily Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is around to stop him from making a wish
that the genie can subvert in a hilariously ironic way.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) tries to teach Colin about art and culture.
Unfortunately Colin only cares about show-tunes.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 4]
The Night Market
Shown 26 Jul 22
Nadja has problems with the wraith workers in the night-club.
To placate them, she takes a trip to the Night Market
so she can barter for an item to bribe the wraiths with.
She takes her flatmates along.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) wants to leave his new fiance at home.
He decides to use one of the genie's wishes
to give himself some time alone with the guys.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) ends up getting forced into the Familiar Fights,
and has to duel Nandor.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) tries to teach Colin about literature.
Unfortunately Colin only cares about fairy-tales.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 5]
Private School
Shown 02 Aug 22
Colin Robinson hits a certain age, and becomes a rambunctious youngster.
The vampires decide to send him to a private school,
so they invite a headmaster over and attempt to impress him.
The bad news is that there are lots of holes in their story.
The good news is that Nadja can hypnotise him to forget
so they can have a do-over.
There is more than just one do-over ...
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is the book-keeper for Nadja's vampire nightclub.
He is very vague about how much money it is making,
and it turns out he is compensating himself quite well
for all the vampiric tomfoolery he has to deal with.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 6]
The Wedding
Shown 09 Aug 22
Finally it is time for Nandor's wedding.
He runs Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) ragged with his insane requests,
such as having a live Dodo bird for the wraiths to feed on.
Yes, he uses the Djinn for inconsequential things
and then orders the Familiar to perform the impossible.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 7]
Pine Barrens
Shown 16 Aug 22
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) join their neighbour in his hunting lodge in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
The neighbour wants to hunt deer,
while the vampires intend to hunt humans who are hunting deer.
The area is known for being the home of the Jersey Devil ...
Back at the mansion,
Nadja has a girls' night watching Mama Mia.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) has invited his family over,
pretending that Nadja is his girlfriend.
Unfortunately his family have the vamp-hunting bloodline too.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 8]
Go Flip Yourself
Shown 23 Aug 22
This episode is shot as a house-repair TV show named Go Flip Yourself.
Yes, nobody has attempted any repairs
since they got back at the start of the Season.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) wants a man-cave, while Nadja wants a gold toilet.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) just wants his room to become liveable.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) wants a place to store his collection of hats.
This is a sequel to
[Season 1, Episode 4] Manhattan Night Club
.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 9]
Freddie
Shown 30 Aug 22
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) invites his English boyfriend Freddie to visit.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) gets jealous, so he has the Djinn transform Marwa
into an exact duplicate of Freddie.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) wants Nadja to give Baby Colin more perks in his contract.
Nadja refuses, so Laszlo takes Colin up-state to a rival vampire nightclub.
This leaves Nadja desperate to find a replacement act,
so that human celebrities like
Sofia Coppola
and
Jim Jarmush
will continue to visit the club.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 4, Episode 10]
Sunrise, Sunset
Shown 06 Sep 22
Baby Colin is no longer a baby, and has hit puberty.
He even makes the custodian (
Kristen Schaal
) a mix CD. The only thing he still does the same
is bashing holes in the wall of his old room.
The Vampire Nighclub is out of business,
partly because the main act has gone
but also because Nadja and Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) are skimming the take.
The main income now is from kids' birthday parties,
because it can double as a haunted house.
This episode basically presses the reset button for the entire Season.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 1]
The Mall
Shown 13 Jul 23
The vampires realise that Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is acting strangely.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) thinks it is because they forgot his birthday,
so arranges a birthday dinner at the steakhouse.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) suspects there is a deeper reason for Gizmo's behaviour.
What the documentary crew know, but the vampires do not,
is that Gizmo asked another vamp to bite him.
We see the flashbacks, courtesy of CCTV footage,
of a violent metaphor for Gizmo losing his virginity.
It turns out that under vampiric law
only the Master can bite the Familiar,
so Gizmo must keep this secret on pain of death.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 2]
A Night Out with the Guys
Shown 13 Jul 23
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) have A Night Out with the Guys,
specifically the neighbour and his friends.
Of course,
the humans' drunken hijinks get them into a lot of trouble.
Laszlo mocks Nandor for relying on hypnotism all the time,
and claims that real vampires rely on wit and charm instead.
Back at the mansion,
Nadja hangs out with the custodian (
Kristen Schaal
). They discover that there is a curse on Nadja,
which explains why she has been so unlucky lately.
Colin also reveals that there is a local community
descended from immigrants from Nadja's homeland.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 3]
Pride Parade
Shown 20 Jul 23
The neighbour is running for election
as Comptroller of Staten Island.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) volunteers to run the Gay Pride Parade.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) claims he can fly so high
that he has gone into outer space many times.
Nobody believes him, so he decides to prove it.
Nadja agrees to do a
Freaky Friday
soul-swap with her dolly,
so the dolly can lose her virginity.
They mess up a speed-dating event,
and then shift their focus to Colin Robinson.
This ends in the strangest three-way in television history.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 4]
The Campaign
Shown 27 Jul 23
The neighbour has dropped out of running for election
as Comptroller of Staten Island.
Colin Robinson takes over, so he can drain the electorate.
He teams up with his ex-girlfriend, an emotional vampire.
They get conscripted by the Council for Energy Vampires,
who want to prevent the Comptroller from reducing bureaucracy.
After all, Energy Vamps need bureaucracy
or they would find it difficult to feed on humans.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) feels lonely since Gizmo is avoiding him.
He goes to the gymn, and looks to make a new friend.
Nadja hangs out with her Greek community
in the hope of getting her hex lifted.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) tries to ingratiate himself with them,
but his efforts predictably backfire.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 5]
Local News
Shown 03 Aug 23
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) gets interviewed by a local TV reporter,
and thinks he inadvertently revealed he was a vampire.
Nadja prepares to flee.
Colin Robinson boobytraps the house
so the vampires can make their last stand there.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) wants to kidnap the TV reporter.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) should be the voice of sanity.
He has gone to his mother's birthday party,
so he can say goodbye to her before he becomes a full vampire.
However, he has to watch the vampires antics on the TV news.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 6]
Urgent Care
Shown 10 Aug 23
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) has been secretly experimenting
to see why Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is only a half-vampire.
This has resulted in some hairy frogs that can fly.
Gizmo tries flying, and ends up breaking his ankle.
Nadja takes him to the doctor - well, a vampire veterinarian
who wants to put down all the familiars.
Colin Robinson has a black eye.
The worst thing is not the injury,
it is because it was indirectly caused by Blue Ice.
This makes him interesting,
which is the worst thing that can happen to an energy vampire.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) tries to help him feed again.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 7]
Hybrid Creatures
Shown 17 Aug 23
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) has been secretly experimenting
to see why Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is only a half-vampire.
This has resulted in some more half-human hybrids.
Now Laszlo orders Gizmo to kill them.
Nadja runs a nightclass for her Greek community
in the hope of getting her hex lifted.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) tags along for moral support,
while Colin Robinson sees it as an opportunity to feed.
When Nadja gets lured away by an old woman
who claims to have magical powers,
Nandor takes the class to the museum, and discovers that
some of his personal belongings are on display there.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 8]
The Roast
Shown 24 Aug 23
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) seems depressed to the point of distraction.
They decide to hold a comedy roast for him,
and invite their local vampire friends.
This includes the Baron.
The custodian (
Kristen Schaal
) lets slip that Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is the one who almost killed the Baron.
Now the Baron hunts Gizmo down to return the favour.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 9]
A Weekend at Morrigan Manor
Shown 31 Aug 23
The custodian (
Kristen Schaal
) is holding an art exhibition,
but none of the vamps shows her any support.
Instead they want to attend a mysterious gathering
at the remote mansion home of a famous vampire.
The mansion seems abandoned,
but the owner has left a note
telling the visitors to make themselves comfortable.
The letter is reminiscent of the intro spiels from the
Saw
series.
Soon the story turns into a take on
And Then There Were None
. But who is the supervillain behind this?
This episode ties up a few plot threads
that have been running through the Season.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 5, Episode 10]
Exit Interview
Shown 31 Aug 23
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) has found out the secret that Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) was keeping from him,
and is searching the city for his former familiar.
Instead he finds the actor Patton Oswalt (
Agents of Shield
).
The final scene shows the reappearance of Topher (Haley Joel Osment -
Futureman
) and the Necromancer (Benedict Wong -
Dr Strange
), in a nice callback to Season Two.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 1]
The Return of Jerry
Shown 21st October 2024
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) now lives in the garden shed.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) awakens Jerry, the fifth flatmate
who has been in Deep Sleep since the 1960s.
They were meant to wake him up in 1996, but they forgot.
Jerry inspires Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) to go back to his old hobby of building and reanimating dead bodies.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 2]
Headhunting
Shown 21st October 2024
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) now works in an office job.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Nadja start hanging out there to help him out.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) has gone back to his old hobby of building and reanimating dead bodies.
Colin Robinson helps out, in the hope of making a friend - literally.
They need a head from a living victim.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 3]
Sleep Hypnosis
Shown 21st October 2024
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) are still arguing over who gets the room under the stairs,
since Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) now lives in the garden shed.
Colin Robinson stirs things up,
so the others do not gang up on him.
The vamps spend the episode performing sleep hypnosis on each other.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 4]
The Railroad
Shown 28th October 2024
Colin and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) are still pretending to work for the railroad.
Shaun the neighbour asks them to set up a job interview for him.
They rent out a fake office,
and get the Monster to pose as the boss.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) gets tested by his new boss.
He has to fire Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) from his job as janitor.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 5]
Nandor's Army
Shown 4th November 2024
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) has gone MIA ever since Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) fired him.
In fact, he has become Colonel Kurtz.
The Baron gives the other housemates a mission.
They must travel to Nandor's new base,
and stop him before he can draw too much attention
to the existence of vampires.
Even the show's theme-song has been altered
into something reminiscent of Apocalypse Now (1979).
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 6]
Laszlo's Father
Shown 11th November 2024
Laszlo's Father, Lord Roderick Cravensworth (Steve Coogan -
), is a ghost.
He starts haunting the house,
and everyone takes a liking to him.
Everyone except Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
), who insists his father is up to no good.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Nadja discover there is a house next to theirs.
They think the inhabitants are shape-shifters,
although Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) explains that the house is just an AirBNB.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 7]
March Madness
Shown 18th November 2024
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) gets help from Colin Robinson.
Somehow, Gizmo's vampire-fighting skills have abandoned him.
Either that or his skills are not effective against energy vampires.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) visit their neighbour Shaun.
He has become obsessed with college basketball,
which seems to be a symptom of demonic possession.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 8]
P.I. Undercover: New York
Shown 25th November 2024
A Copaganda show is filming an episode
on the street outside the house.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) and Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) feel besieged, so try to sabotage the TV crew.
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) is the chairman of the show's fan-club,
and spends the episode trying to get an autography from Kevin Pollock (
End of Days
).
Colin Robinson has dinner with his friends from his old office job.
This seems to be an in-joke reference to The Office (USA).
Nadja tags along to practice interacting with humans.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 9]
Come Out and Play
Shown 2nd December 2024
The family attend a vampire gathering in honour of The Baron.
Jerry the ex-flatmate takes the opportunity to intervene,
trying to depose the old leadership
and institute his plans to conquer the New World.
Nadja and Cravensworth's Monster get involved,
and things go from bad to worse.
Previously this Season had a parody of Apocalypse Now (1979).
Now the family have to get across the city in
a parody of The Warriors (1979).
The celebrity cameo of the week
is a random unnamed vampire (Alexander Skarsgard -
True Blood
).
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 10]
The Promotion
Shown 9th December 2024
Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) gets a promotion at work,
and there is a party held in his honour.
The vampires go along for their own reasons.
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) takes the Monster, to help him become more human.
Nadja has gotten a better job offer elsewhere,
so she decides to burn all her bridges at work.
Nandor is protective of his former familiar.
What We Do In The Shadows (2019) [Season 6, Episode 11]
The Finale
Shown 16th December 2024
Laszlo (Matt Berry -
Garth Morenghi’s Darkplace
) and Colin have to make a bride for the Monster,
because it is becoming uncontrollably horny.
Nandor (Kayvan Novak -
Prevenge (2017)
) is obsessed with creating an underground lair
so he can become a superpowered vigilante.
He wants Guillermo (Harvey Guillen -
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
) to be his sidekick.
The documentary crew have enough footage,
so the show is coming to an end.
Nadja wants it to end like the Newhart show,
which makes no sense if you do not understand the reference.
Guillermo spends the rest of the episode saying goodbye to Nandor.
This is a mockumentary about a subculture living in Wellington, New Zealand.
Viago (Taika Waititi -
Thor: Ragnarok
) and Vladislav (Jerome Clement -
Legion
) live as vampires.
As the story takes a step from comedy into horror,
it turns out that they are not mere cosplayers.
They are actual blood-suckers!
