‘All vampire, no bullshit’: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ is still sharp in final season
Does anyone drop an f-bomb better than Matt Berry? PLUS: ‘Blade’ gets pulled from the calendar, Holland joins Nolan’s latest, and Iger will leave in 2026. Seriously this time.
Welcome to an almost-Halloween edition of Popculturology! (Are you planning on giving out less chocolate this year?) Today we’re celebrating the birthdays of two of two major celebrities: Bluey’s Bandit Heeler and Yankees star outfielder Juan Soto. (Oh, it’s also my birthday too.)
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“What the dick is he saying?”
What We Do in the Shadows returned for its sixth and final season this week. The first three episodes are already available on Hulu, and you’re absolutely correct if you guessed that I’ve already watched them.
Is there a show that has continued to be as sharp as What We Do in the Shadows while still finding new ways to reinvent itself after six seasons? I guess it’s easier when you’re only producing ten episodes per season (eleven in Season 6’s case), but that’s still a lot of time to keep up the level of quality that we’ve gotten from Shadows.
The first three episodes of Season 6 did a fantastic job (no, I’m not going to write fang-tastic) of shining the spotlight on the show’s major characters while introducing Mike O’Brien’s Jerry the Vampire and Tim Heidecker as Guillermo’s finance bro boss. (Do we think he can get into Club Aqua?)
If the f-word is a paintbrush, What We Do in the Shadows is TV’s Vincent Van Gogh. No one nails a “fuck” like Matt Berry, and I think we got to hear him do so in these three episodes at a higher rate than normal.
If you’re not already watching What We Do in the Shadows, this is your chance to get into the show before it ends in December.
