What We Do in the Shadows - American tv series inspired by Kiwi* movie

[gaystoner]

Now on season 3!

I honestly thought I would get tired of the comedy and it lulls slightly in season 2 but then it picks up steam and I'm enjoying the intro to season 3

Kino Intro song:

 

[Cool Username]

Holy shit there's a tv series?! How come I didn't know before! I have to watch it omg. That movie (which, by the way, isn't british but kiwi) is one of my favorites, I've watched it at least ten times. It's awesome, Taika Waititi is a great director.
I think the show isn't available in my country, I'll have to watch it on a pirate site or something.

 

[Uncle Warren]

The movie was good, but I was avoiding the show because people wouldn't stop screaming about "muh queer diversity" and I took that as the show was pozzed.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

This is the only mainstream show I watch anymore. Season one is peak, but its still good. Although I hate what they've done with Guillermo.

The movie was good, but I was avoiding the show because people wouldn't stop screaming about "muh queer diversity" and I took that as the show was pozzed.

Lazlo is a degenerate sex pervert. I don't know if he's really the kind of character upon which you want to fly a fucking queer banner. Every other character is straight.

 

[Uncle Warren]

Lazlo is a degenerate sex pervert. I don't know if he's really the kind of character upon which you want to fly a fucking queer banner. Every other character is straight.

I believe it was more within the story, but knowing LGBT they probably held Lazlo up as an icon. I HAVE seen a couple bits here and there and thought the series hadn't lost any of the charm from the movie though.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

I believe it was more within the story, but knowing LGBT they probably held Lazlo up as an icon. I HAVE seen a couple bits here and there and thought the series hadn't lost any of the charm from the movie though.

If I had to guess, the gay projection is centered on Nandor and his manservant Guillermo. Nandor is mincing and soft-spoken. Guillermo is awkward and loyal. A perfect slash pairing for gay fanfics writers on twitter (think Frodo and Sam from LotR). However, both characters are portrayed as straight on the show. Nandor, painfully so. But internet gays are gonna project their gayness onto everything.

 

[Lake]

I think the movie was (appropriately enough) made by Kiwis, not Brits.

The show is great! Don't let the Twitter Alphabet Collective convince you otherwise.

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

one of the few funny shows currently on TV

 

[FreedomMussel]

I like the show because it brings back the suite of SFX-heavy superpowers that a lot of vampire media has dispensed with for some reason, runs partly on Discworld-style vampire logic, and includes references to a lot of different vampire media.

E.g. one of the episodes establishes that every vampire has a unique power, which is likely a reference to the From Dusk Til Dawn tv show which did the same thing (and is the only prior vampire media I’m aware of that does).

The show isn’t really all that queer. The vampires are all bisexual as a parody of Anne Rice, but otherwise the show has nothing to do with queer culture. The vampires are quite frankly horrible representation because in any non-comedic setting they’d be villains. They leave piles of bodies in their wake!

 

[gaystoner]

Season 3 is fucking hilarious. No spoilers but the end of season 2 leaves a major plot unresolved but is quickly explained.

Spoiler: dont click

Then it becomes council of old people vs zoomer council in ep2. its fucking hilarious.

 

[Death Grip]

"We are going to see the Superb Owl"

 

[Johnny Treason]

It is surprisingly good for a current-year comedy; it helps that the main cast is good enough to elevate the weaker material, and a horror comedy is always a welcome break form Suburban Family Sitcom #379-b and Thirty-something Friends Hooking Up With Each Other #271.

 

[gaystoner]

I like the show because it brings back the suite of SFX-heavy superpowers that a lot of vampire media has dispensed with for some reason, runs partly on Discworld-style vampire logic, and includes references to a lot of different vampire media.

E.g. one of the episodes establishes that every vampire has a unique power, which is likely a reference to the From Dusk Til Dawn tv show which did the same thing (and is the only prior vampire media I’m aware of that does).

The show isn’t really all that queer. The vampires are all bisexual as a parody of Anne Rice, but otherwise the show has nothing to do with queer culture. The vampires are quite frankly horrible representation because in any non-comedic setting they’d be villains. They leave piles of bodies in their wake!

 

[Lake]

Glad to see the thread title's been amended. That was a real regular human chap thing to do.

 

[FreedomMussel]

It’s way more kafkaesque comedy than horror. In the abstract it is quite horrifying because the main cast are serial killers and their constant idiocy leads to all kinds of horrible suffering for innocent people.

 

[Fatafata v2]

There's actually another spinoff called Wellington Paranormal if you can handle nasally kiwi accents and $500 budgets.

For the yanks it streams on CW and is also up to season 3.

 

[Free the Pedos]

I was concerned about the quality of this season after it was announced that some of the major showrunners were leaving, but it may be the strongest one yet. My favorite episode thus far was the Casino one.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

I love the show and now I have something to replace It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I saw the film, too, but I like the TV show better, especially because of Colin.

 

[Racist Trash]

Yeah it's a great show, BBC runs it over here which is great, apparently they will show season 3 once the US has finished the season so not much longer now. One of my favourite quotes is in the citizenship episode with

Spoiler

"who should I pick alt-right or antifa"

Spoiler

and the nazi Germany Olympic song

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Welp, that is one way to end an episode.

Also, lol at Guillermo

Spoiler

serving the shittiest-looking chicken nuggets possible to that broad.