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

It's tough to pick a favorite, since this is one of those ensembles that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Nandor would seem like the weakest link, but he's arguably the straight man to the other, weirder vampires, and the dynamic needs him (Guillermo is something else--part audience surrogate, part Charlie Brown). That having been said, I'd go with Najda or Colin Robinson.

I love Nandor! The accent, the ridiculous name, the fact that an Ottoman warlord is the cosiest and most straight-laced character.

I'm torn between him and Colin Robinson.

No option for Nadja’s ghost doll? I’d have voted for her.

I thought about it but concluded she was an extension of Nadja.

This show is a highlight of my week. It's not about singling out one of them (but it's Nadja).

No Jackie Daytona, no credibility

the finest human bartender there is

in the absence of jackie daytona, i am forced to vote for laszlo cravensworth, for his bombastic stupidity

chap, why do you think this season has been a step down? I think they’ve done a great job of expanding the world and adding some actual stakes with guillermo’s arc

I thought the first episode of s2 was weak but everything else has been good to great, esp Superb Owl

the first episode with zombie joel osment? I though that was hilarious

I love this show so much. "Bat!"

"Human form!"

I felt dumb but I didn't realize that was Mark Hamill until the end.

Huge Mark Ptroksch fan here, so it's a shoe-in for Collin.

Nandor, with Colin a close second.

voted Colin Robinson but of the three main vampires it’s gotta be Nadja

Her victim Jenna is great too

In a year in which two entire elaborately-costumed single-camera sitcoms were (partially) designed to let Matt Berry do his Matt Berry thing, the one in which he was not the lead somehow managed to showcase him better. All of them are magnificent, and the ensemble allows everyone a chance to show different sides in group and solo dynamics, but I'm voting Laszlo.

Easy vote for Nandor for me - the idea of an Ottoman warlord vampire who is shy and awkward and needy is just so funny to me, and his performance is great. Guillermo on the other hand I dont think I've ever laughed at once, show could lose him entirely imo.

The Jackie Daytona ep might be the hardest Ive laughed at anything this year, I was crying. I think 'arcs' are overrated when it comes to comedy shows, I much prefer episodes like that, surreal self-contained stories with their own internal logic.

Agreed Guillermo is the only one I definitely wouldn't vote for. I've laughed plenty at the vampires being mean to him, but never at anything he's done. I guess his vampire hunter self hatred is kind of funny.

I love how impenetrable the main 3’s accents get sometimes

I love how impenetrable the main 3’s accents get sometimes

I love how impenetrable the main 3s accents get sometimes

Wow ok

Guillermo’s hapless aptitude for vampire slaying has been a very funny upgrade to his servility this year

A vote for Nadja counts as a vote for Nadja's doll

Speaking of accents I love the relish with which Matt Berry weirdly varies his intonation of "My darling".

Guillermo I think is needed as a foil, especially for a show where one of the vampires is himself already sort of a straight man (Colin Robinson). I agree Guillermo isn't funny, but for the format he's needed to provide the rhythmic beat of someone slowly glancing at the camera and shaking their head or grimacing or whatever a la every fake reality show/doc.

Also, Lazlo calling him Gizmo is pretty funny.

mildly spicy take but Colin Robinson is basically a one-joke character. it's a really good joke, don't get me wrong, but there's not a whole lot there.

i voted Laszlo but already regretting that, should've picked Nadja.

if Colin wasn't played by Mark Proksch I would probably enjoy it much less

He is worth it as a character for those glimmers of devilish glee when you realize his behavior is intentional. Like, he'll just be droning on stupidly until someone leaves or falls asleep or dies, and then his eyes will sparkle and he'll grin.

The episode where he starts to go super saiyan when he gets a promotion is amazing

That's my favourite one of the season so far.

I'm very happy this thread has proved quite busy, nice to know others love the show as much as me.

It fits that we're also talking about Key and Peele right now, cause they're linked in my min for how they throw in great effects and production design to help sell the jokes

nice to know others love the show as much as me.

this has to be the best film-to-tv translation ever, right?

(don't @l@n@ld@ me.)

Buffy?

Fargo?

The individual character-focused eps have been really good (Colin in the office, Jackie Daytona). Was the 'ghosts' one supposed to have been Nadja's? And I don't think Nandor has had one, maybe that's still coming?

Only three more left. :( On the other hand, three more left!

Good answers, but I was thinking in terms of a TV show that successfully transfers the concepts and/or spirit of a movie into the small/serial format.

(The Buffy movie has its charms, but the TV show is a massive improvement in every way, not just in repairing/restoring Whedon's supposed original tone. The Fargo TV shows are excellent, but don't actually bring anything from the movie beyond "crime story with character actors in" - the tone is complementary to the film, but the writing doesn't approach character or humour in the same way as the Coens.)

Make that sympathetic character - Hawley's villains and heavies are charming, sketched grotesqueries in a way that fits with Fargo and other Coen movies, but he appropriately uses the longer narrative and screen time to draw his chumps and protagonists with more depth.

what about MASH?

Has any other story delved into the ingenious notion that vampires, having technically died, could be haunted by their own ghosts?

Ooh, MASH. More or less same characters and, imo, better than the movie, iirc.

Friday Night Lights?

Either M*A*S*H or Jugglos

FNL fer sure.

Girlfriend Experience too

There was a scene in last week's episode when Lazlo materialised in the cursed hat and Nadja did the most amazing look to camera, it's been my highlight of the whole show.

But it's Colin Robertson for me. I loved a couple of weeks ago when somebody just called him Colin and he corrected them to Colin Robertson, because that's what his actual name is and not a combination of Colin and Robertson.

yeah didn't they have Wesley Snipes as an actual vampire albeit a very unpopular one because he played a vampire killer in the Blade movies

2 more! 11 eps this year

hell yeah

xp yeah, they just said he was Wesley Snipes. It's a good bit

Very funny and exciting to see a whole sequence filmed in one of my favourite cafes, Propeller (the exterior shot was fake, but it’s actually called propeller, and they kept some of their IRL branding intact). I’ve probably spent hundreds of hours there over the last ten years, it’s the closest I’ll get to seeing a fav detective show filmed next to my house.

There have been a lot of movie riffs this season, but this Warriors one was pretty funny, especially with Colin Robinson lampshading at the beginning by referencing the Warriors.

Incredible episode, even if for nothing else than getting to hear Matt Berry pronounce “Patrick Swayze”

Well this might be one of the strangest series finales I’ve ever seen

there are 3 different "hypnosis" segments and they switched them around when it aired on live TV.

might've been a bit too meta but I would've loved it had the series ended like that

that was a good finale, i liked the hypnosis-es-es

that whole scene where guillermo gives his meaningful speech while the monster fucked the bear statue was hilar

rosemary’s baby one ruled

i also liked the rosemary’s baby ending, but am kinda glad i didn’t see it the first time i watched lol

Wait can someone explain the 3 segment thing? We can only see this show by sailing the seas so all we saw was a pisstake Bobby from Dallas waking up segment.

How does seeing different ones even work!?

depending on how you watched it (FX, Hulu, Hulu Live, etc) there were different hypnosis scenes shown, or you can watch them as extras on Hulu or Disney+ or what have you (and on Youtube now, I'm sure)... Newhart, Usual Suspects, or Rosemary's Baby

ohh right yes the "extra hypnosis" thing I guess we have some additional sailing to do.

it’s just like alternative emdings - there’s a Usual Suspects ending, and a Rosemary’s Baby

and it was Newhart ending if it was them waking up in bed, not Dallas

xp
On streaming there is an extras tab that shows the two not in the episode. On broadcast TV they aired the episode 3 times with a different segment each time.

and it's not Dallas which was Pamela waking up and seeing bobby in the shower. it's Newhart where he woke up with his wife from a previous show.

honestly you aren't missing much!

Colin Robinson was really good this season but overall it was kind of dud

Oh I've never heard of Newhart even though I'm a genxer, mustve been more of a US show I guess.

the 80s series finale is famous among US sitcoms for the callback to the 70s series, as parodied in WWDITS (which I found odd, as it feels like most viewers will be too young to catch the reference)

LOST did this too (at 4:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKyjeRodd4

I also sailed the seas Trayce to watch weekly but all of the season is now on Disney+ in the UK and the other hypnosis endings are under the Extras tab xps

Eh we only sub to netflix and Youtube, I never bothered with disney (I think I tried to once and I couldnt sign up for some reason haha).

(which I found odd, as it feels like most viewers will be too young to catch the reference)

I definitely got the impression that a bunch of the actors and writers had pet references they wanted to use in the show and this season they just let them do 'em all

best joke in the episode was the crew member who looked like nandor

Wonder if that's his stunt double or something? I liked it, glad I heard about the alternate hypnoses, RIP WWDitS. Still hoping for We're Wolves.

I do find it impressive they were able to out-meta the Curb finale, which is an entire show built on such things

https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/matt-berry-favourite-music-albums/

Fav-o-rite museeeeq al bums sounds like something Laszlo would say.

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Just finished binging this season, I thought it was fantastic. All the cast on top form, loved colin robinson doing the clapping push ups, going ham on gizmo. I dug every time a character would give a side glance to the camera with an annoyed or disgusted or wtf expression - multiple times every episode.

one of our favourite moments was the monster having the look of disgust when they were watching the historic footage of laszlo's earlier unsuccessful experiments

Monster had some great moments, incl ripping his own dick off multiple times. Really happy with how the season turned out, one of the funniest imo, very little "plot" & complicated lore & side characters, just lots & lots of goofy shit

after the disappointment of the guide character fizzling out we thought the monster was a great new addition and really paid off - we're just sad we won't see the character anymore. maybe we can get a spinoff with the baron, the sire, the hellhound and the monster. and the various guillermo clones.

The mobster's best ep was Guillermo's Promotion imo.

*monster's*

The monster as the railroad CEO killed me

"shut fuck up" became a popular expression in this household

just finished and everyone otm, very much a season of leaning into strengths

I kept forgetting that I forgot to watch the series finale, but I finally did, and it was pretty good!

omg the Rosemary's Baby one, hadn't seen that until now

ignoring the thread so far...
this is on BBC 2 starting Weds 12th March. Finally!

u lucky duck

wait I'm an idiot. sorry UK people. it says series 5. series 6 is the new one? yet I think s5 hasn't been on BBC2 before?

Yeah think it's just Disney that has the final season on the UK atm

ok I demand to know if there are any other shorts I've missed like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNPcUg7SCU

i think that's just a clip from the show? 5th season, forget which episode

Season 1 shorts
Vampires Define Things
Energy Vampire Bedtime Stories
Brief History of Snug Harbor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxtr1CYuJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICh8A1PdXF4

well those links didn't work. just search youtube for "a shadows short" for season 1, and the other titles for the rest.

ty!

Just getting around to the final season and Tim Heidecker's speech at the celebratory company dinner is so good.

"[Gets serious.] I don't bring up my wife and kids very often here. [Yells] But fuck 'em, you're my family!" is one of the highlights of the show.