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

maybe I'm just not feeling it but this season hasn't been as good

the actors seem to mostly be trying to work with what they've been given, but it's too little

Yeah it’s not as good as it used to be but seeing Mark Proksch’s face on a little kid’s body is hilarious/unnerving.

watching this season, everything just moves so fast, they hurry through every scene, its edited within an inch of its life and feels like theyre just constantly rushing to get to the next plot beat. even scenes that are just two people talking look like a michael bay movie sometimes with the avalanche of shots and fast cuts. a lot of the jokes seem like they're overdubbed in at the very last moment before a change to a new scene. theres very little room for performance and delivery which imho is the shows main comedic strength. the stuff with nandor negotiating his penis wish with the djinn was one of the few times i've really laughed this season, mostly bc its just a really funny idea for a scene and seeing those three actors all play it straight was really fun to watch. but there are just so many plots and little stories going on for every character in every episode simultaneously that they just have way too much narrative business to get through in 22 minutes.

they had a whole setup that had been carefully constructed last season with room for each of them to explore their own character, new connections, new storylines. then they said nope, threw all that out and had nadja open a vampire club. show has gotten bad.

I wonder if the budget got squashed or the real life set conditions made them throw the whole gang back together in the house immediately. I figure we’d get a few episodes of solo nonsense, maybe a Jackie Daytona type of thing, and instead we got flooded basement

only watched the first two and yeah it's super weird they ended on such a wild cliffhanger only to go "eh, never mind" within 5 minutes

episode #2 was really good though, Nandor resurrecting all his dead wives was hilarious and the accountant genie was great

I did laugh at the entire “yes, some of my wives are men” moment

yeah all the stuff with nandor is the only stuff that is working for me this season comedy-wise. all the business with nadja, lazlo, kristen schaal, and guillermo has fallen flat for me and seemed like busywork w/not a lot of jokes. even with baby colin robinson, the visual of mark proksch's head on a childs body is very funny but they havent really delivered on the premise very much imho

ok, the night market episode was a little rushed at the beginning but I thought it was funny. the wraith negotiation scene!

first episode was shaky but #2-4 had a lot of funny scenes. the MC for the familiar fights was really funny. the thing with this show is that you kinda have to watch it with captions - Natasia Demetriou and Kristin Schaal lay on such thick accents that I can't tell what they're saying half the time. and when the captions are on you see a bunch of lines that are pretty funny but are basically inaudible.

kristen schaal has been very funny this season, i'm glad she's getting more to do.

don't think the show is bad per se, but it's definitely not delivering the laughs as regularly. i did crack up every time i heard the name "richie suck"

it's only taken me a week to realise that the reason I don't recognise any of these plot lines is you're all talking about a brand new season.

I was looking up something about the show the other day and was reminded of the fact that someone had to re-edit Natasia Demetriou's wikipedia page to adhere to the guidelines, because she uploaded her own wiki picture

It's a very good picture
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Natasia_Demetriou,_What_We_Do_in_The_Shadows,_2019.jpg

Watching now, and Nandor’s face lift is just getting better and better!

Lmao @ Nandor “I have not slept for a week because I keep thinking of ideas for the perfect wedding”

**Cut to Nandor in his coffin writing “WEDING CAKE” in a notebook**

The episodes from the night market on have been much better. I like all the legalistic stuff with the djinn and I really enjoyed Nadja trying to be friends with Gizmo's family. Still not as good as it used to be, but at the end of the last season I was only watching out of habit, and now I'm actively enjoying it again.

hat’s still cursed

I just heard "Emotional Rescue" on the radio, and now I'm dying to hear Jagger's monologue at the end performed by Nandor.

Good little piece by Harvey Guillén who plays Guillermo:

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a40907282/harvey-guillen-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-coming-out/

Matt Berry did a What's In My Bag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HuNNPoAGvQ

ILX may be interested to know that the last record he picks is Cluster II. "It sounds like electronic nightmares. I highly recommend it."

“Go Flip Yourself” maybe my favorite episode of the series so far, I loved the final twist and how hard this show leans into its own ridiculousness

wejust watched the pine barrens ep - the new jersey devil sequence was hysterical omg

Go Flip Yourself is one of the best episodes ever of the whole series, I Ioled many times.

definitely rewound this bit several times

perhaps matt berry's greatest line delivery yet pic.twitter.com/1wxm64GQsK

— jackie daytona (@gentlydirks) August 24, 2022

nyew hyork citayyy

I gotta know if that was ad libbed

as opposed to it being in the script as

nyew hyork citayyy

just watched it again and lmao I totally missed the joke with Nandor testing out the bar in the "man cave"

Just a tiny bit in an episode packed with lots of material, but I appreciated how every attempt by Nadja to perform on stage ended with her falling into the drum set

Nandor: "Stop listing the things that I did!"

I'm only a few episodes into season 4 but I was finding the flanderization of Laszlo annoying in season 3 where literally every line he had seemed to be sex / porn / masturbation related, and so far it feels like he is finally starting to do SOME things that are not about sex.

yeesh, this show has become a totally different animal. went from being something to enjoy to standard trashwatching.
suddenly it has the same general plotting, delivery and setpieces as family guy/rick and morty/every other 2020s carbon copy animation.

agree cant hang

Damn

(still haven't seen any of the new season, will probably re-up on Hulu for the winter or whenever the next season of The Great comes out)

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