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

i demand an odd couple spinoff of the baron, the sire & the hellhound

also lazlo swallowing the harmonica made me laugh so hard, it’s so dumb

i demand an odd couple spinoff of the baron, the sire & the hellhound

lol, was just going to post basically this. That last scene with them in their new home was hilarious.

seeing the baron riding the hellhound cracked me up, but later seeing him in the mini-SUV had me in tears

oh we're going to get an episode with them sooner or later; you don't build a playground and then not use it

slowly catching up, just watched the atlantic city episode.

it was a kick in the head!

omg the fake ratpack had me dying

Ok Colin Robinson dropping random movie trivia about Jaws has got to be an On Cinema reference

pleased that catherine cohen chicken siren is now canon

question where does the artwork that displays over the voiceovers come from? I know some of it is made by the show but there's so much of it and it doesn't make sense to gin up something that's on screen for like not even a full second. did they give the vampires such generic looks that it was just easy to find historical artwork that somewhat resembles them? or is it all photoshopped a little? (as I suspect). idk its one of my favorite aspects of the show

y dont i like this season? whats diff?

No Tom Scharpling, for one.

they're doing much more world building than before, which works for me but i guess i could understand if it didn't for you

I think a lot of comedies written over zoom in the last year+ are suffering from writers not having been in the room together

i am liking this season but theres definitely a danger at this point a few seasons in where theyve accumulated so many characters and running plots that actual jokes grow sparser bc they have to service all the other stuff

This series feels like it’s aware of its audience and status, whereas the first two had that “fuck around and find out” vibe where everyone was having fun making this weirdo show.

I have no issue with this season. Nadya’s doll walking on her 5 cm legs with a bindle was hilarious.

Colin Robinson is great as always but if I had one complaint it's that we haven't seen enough energy vampirism this season. Those scenes always kill me.

I think this season has been pretty good but it does kinda feel a bit like Arrested Development S3 where it's full of callbacks and increasingly bizarre plotlines. also the first 2 seasons were so over-the-top that you kinda wonder how much further the show can go. that said its still super funny and this season seems to be setting up for a good finish

The artwork in the intro was all created for the show, based on a lot of actual paintings and such:

https://imgur.com/gallery/FvkuSZ3

I imagine they spent time on it because in the streaming/Internet era they know fans will pause and scrutinize everything that gets on screen so the fact that some of it only flashes up for less than a second doesn't matter so much.

seeing the baron riding the hellhound cracked me up, but later seeing him in the mini-SUV had me in tears

great find on that thread f hazel

Yeah that was great, art department on this show does a great job

Not gonna spoil it but the end of this weeks episode made me audibly gasp. Was definitely expecting some kind of fake out

Yeah, that was, uh...pretty shocking.

I really have been hoping for a call back to the local city council. Went back and watched that one again and it cracked me up even more now and considering how nuts people have been acting at those kinda of meetings these days, it seems that is some pretty low hanging comedic fruit.

I have not read the recent posts but this is on in the UK next week - Tuesday BBC2 10.05pm

Laszlo playing the piano in the finale, especially Take My Hand when Guillermo first goes in, was my highlight.

That artwork post, wow the detail. Thanks for posting! I've been avoiding this thread cause spoilers (but now I'm almost at the end so I just won't read the most recent posts).

There's also one snapshot in the opening credits with what looks like a pubescent Laszlo with his hand in his pants and a sort of guilty but confrontational demeanor. Now I wonder if that's an allusion too.

Little boy blue?

as all over the place as this season has been I thought the last couple eps were great. not gonna spoil it but the last 5 minutes of the finale were pretty crazy, almost felt like yelling at the TV

little weird they didn't really explain what was going on with fitness vampire though

I knew that they weren't gonna get rid of Proksch that easily. And 'infant-as-energy vampire' is a solid concept, as probably anyone who's had an infant would agree.

little weird they didn't really explain what was going on with fitness vampire though

sure they did, she was grifting

y dont i like this season? whats diff?

― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, October 16, 2021 4:00 AM

No Tom Scharpling, for one.

― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Saturday, October 16, 2021 4:10 AM

season 3 was the most recent season btw!

What was it the fitness vampire said to the CCTV cam at the end? Tried a few times and can't catch it.

I thought the last episode was pretty wow.

“Back to the drawing board” essentially

thanks for reminding me there are often post credit sequences, i missed that!

thought the last couple of episodes were sort of weak? still lots of fun

one of them did contain "Hello, Guillermo...have you brought some more people to yank on my pee-pee?" which is one of the funniest lines in the show

anyway, I also figured that they weren't just gonna write Proksch out of the show like that, my guess was that one of the clones from the episode where he gets promoted to manager would show up

also Nandor quoting Half Baked was pretty awesome

i liked that this went full continuity! now we have lots of toys to play with

Just catching up with this season - I found the first two episodes a bit disappointing, somewhat hectic and overstuffed. The third episode in Atlantic City I absolutely loved. I realise I much prefer the episodes where the vampires engage with banal aspects of the modern world to the baroque vampiric council world building ones.

one real asset this show has is all four main vampires are played by people who could make you laugh just reading the phonebook

I found this whole season a real drag. It just got worse and worse as it went along. Kind of hoping it doesn't come back, tbh, and I say that as someone who absolutely adored the first two seasons.

Kind of agree - the things that were good were retreads of previous seasons, the beats that were new were not good (idg what they did with Laszlo's character at all)

i thought the ending was real dumb but i am also old enough to be triggered by anything that is even vaguely reminiscent of “the dancing baby”

it should have ended on the prev episode imo

the whole season was just so plotty

I think everyone (including tv showrunners) is just doing the best they can to navigate the pandemic and it's probably advisable not to judge any product of this accursed time too harshly. Everything is compromised as hell right now.

Like there's probably a sizable book to be written about the creative compromises people have had to make to get entertainment out into the world over the past two years.

true

I thought the show was fine this season.

I still enjoyed it but the scripts felt a lot more uh...haphazardly edited. it felt like they wrote a lot of plotlines that were later removed but still referenced here and there. the show's pacing was much less tight and the tone whipped around a lot. too much gross out humor as a whole. also their special effects budget didn't quite seem to match some of the things they were trying to do. that said it had as many laugh out loud moments as other seasons and I still looked forward to watching it every week