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

Racist Trash said:
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
"who should I pick alt-right or antifa"
and the nazi Germany Olympic song
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The politics quip was hysterical. the best part about this show is there are such 'current' era jokes that do not take away from the overall vibe. Behind the scenes must be amazing.

 
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Honestly, it is better than I thought it would be.

I enjoyed the movie and I am glad the show stayed true to its spirit, the show is almost a "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" but with vampires.

I am surprised it has gone on for three seasons and they haven't shoehorned any woke bullshit into it.
 
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I was worried going in for the same reasons many were but I was pleasantly surprised by how faithful it was to the tone of the movie. As a lover of vampire movies and whatnot this show, and the movie as well, parody the tropes in such a unique and hilarious way that I found myself binging the first and second seasons. Though the second get's a little weak toward the end, the series is overall pretty good and I recommend it to people who liked the movie. I have yet to watch season 3 but I'm pleased to hear good things about it.
 
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The ending of season 3 was really fantastic. Leaves you wanting season 4 and actually felt like a rollercoaster where you don't know how it's going to end. Really great...emotional...funny and felt like there was closure but plenty of open endedness that implies another season.
 
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I did not know Mark Hamill, Haley Joel Osment and Scott Bakula was in the second and third season respectively.

Even the first season had the likes of Wesley Snipes, Tilda Swinton, Danny Trejo and Dave Bautista for some reason.

 
Did the Nadja actress get pregnant? The costumes hide a lot but her face keeps swelling as the seasons progressed.
 
LazloChalos said:
Did the Nadja actress get pregnant? The costumes hide a lot but her face keeps swelling as the seasons progressed.
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I heard a rumor about that, but if she were pregnant during filming she would’ve had the kid by now, right?
 
FreedomMussel said:
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!
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Late as fuck, but that shit originated in Twilight, where everyone of the characters had a unique X-Man power for some reason.
 
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FreedomMussel said:
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!
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It would also make sense for vampires - whose reproduction does not depend on the sex of their victim - to not have a biologically-hardwired attraction to the opposite sex.
 
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It would also make sense for vampires - whose reproduction does not depend on the sex of their victim - to not have a biologically-hardwired attraction to the opposite sex.
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Nor to the same sex, or any sex considering they’re walking corpses. Vampirism here is basically conversion therapy that converts straights and gays into bis, which makes about as much sense as walking corpses having sex drives in the first place.

I don’t think it makes sense to invoke science to explain what is clearly 1) magic and 2) fictional.
 
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Got around to watching season 3 and really enjoyed it, loved the ending. Also I don't think we will see much woke shit considering Matt Berry tends to be from the older class of British comedian where anything and everything goes same with the guy who plays Nandor who used to have a show called Fonejacker where he had a bunch of characters who would prank call people including blackface in a sequel series called Facejacker and hell Taika Waititi recently did a whole movie dressed as Hitler.
I loved the Big Bang Theory machine episode including the bit where the show is on in the background as just a constantly looping laugh track and makes me wonder if they just saw that machine in the casino and just went with it
 
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I don't care when it's premiering, just happy we're getting another season. I really wanna see where it goes after the season 3 finale.
 
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The first two episodes are available and they are somewhat bland

I can't put my finger on it, maybe its the expectation of each season having to be better than the last, but I get the feeling it has something to do with the pacing, plus I am getting fed up with doll Nadja.

Or maybe it's just me preferring self contained episodes similar to "Its always sunny in Philadelphia"

Now it has already been established that vampires are a depraved bunch, but I believe the alphabet pandering will start to drastically escalate in the show, and I don't mean Sandor's harem.
 
LazloChalos said:
The first two episodes are available and they are somewhat bland

I can't put my finger on it, maybe its the expectation of each season having to be better than the last, but I get the feeling it has something to do with the pacing, plus I am getting fed up with doll Nadja.

Or maybe it's just me preferring self contained episodes similar to "Its always sunny in Philadelphia"

Now it has already been established that vampires are a depraved bunch, but I believe the alphabet pandering will start to drastically escalate in the show, and I don't mean Sandor's harem.
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I found the second episode funnier than the first. Doll Nadja was barely in the last season, but I also love her and wanted more of her.

It is a mockumentary, there's going to be some continuity. But all the commercials I saw for it made it seem like the vampire nightclub was going to be an early episode, not a season long story.

It's reached a fourth season without it, I don't think it's going to happen now, they've shown no hints of it and it's usually Nadja and Lazlo boning. Kristen Schaal's character only seemed interested in men.
 
cactus said:
I found the second episode funnier than the first. Doll Nadja was barely in the last season, but I also love her and wanted more of her.

It is a mockumentary, there's going to be some continuity. But all the commercials I saw for it made it seem like the vampire nightclub was going to be an early episode, not a season long story.

It's reached a fourth season without it, I don't think it's going to happen now, they've shown no hints of it and it's usually Nadja and Lazlo boning. Kristen Schaal's character only seemed interested in men.
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I know continuity is inevitable, but I hope it is handled like the Baron crisis, he pops in but for the most part he is just a background motivator while the group deals with a multitude of other things.

As for the pandering, let me clarify, I am not talking about fucking, their preferences, their escapades or innuendos, Nadja's and Lazlo's back-to-back recollection of their relationships with the Baron (accompanied by the illustrations) was very funny as was Sandor's attempts to romance a lesbian.

I am talking about that moment in series where the writers feel the need to pander and use a show as a soapbox to rail against hastag issues and politics. I really enjoy that none of that has happened yet.
 
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I know continuity is inevitable, but I hope it is handled like the Baron crisis, he pops in but for the most part he is just a background motivator while the group deals with a multitude of other things.

As for the pandering, let me clarify, I am not talking about fucking, their preferences, their escapades or innuendos, Nadja's and Lazlo's back-to-back recollection of their relationships with the Baron (accompanied by the illustrations) was very funny as was Sandor's attempts to romance a lesbian.

I am talking about that moment in series where the writers feel the need to pander and use a show as a soapbox to rail against hastag issues and politics. I really enjoy that none of that has happened yet.
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Oh, so that's what you meant by it going woke. The show is still kinda out of the limelight, so it may escape any pandering. But we'll see, considering Taika saying Thor 4 was "queer" despite it not really having any gay anything in it. I don't know Jemaine's thoughts on that, but I haven't seen him endorse woke shit (I don't go on Twitter).

I'm hoping the nightclub episode is only a couple episodes away, besides like the Baron and Nadja's relationship with her lover who keeps reincarnating, the continuity I care about is how Lazlo is going to shape baby Colin.

And it's Nandor, not Sandor.
 
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