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

LazloChalos said:
Fuck! why have I kept calling him that?


That is going to be something, since Lazlo is basically "defanging" baby Colin by trying to make him interesting.
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I almost said something the first time too, but thought maybe it was a typo.

Well the baby already said his name was Colin, so it'll either wear off or he'll bounce form topic from the next, which will also tire people out.
 
Lazlo and Collin are the only reason I keep an eye out for new episodes, although the Nadja and the Guide dynamic is starting to grow on me.

Nandor's storyline feels depleted and boring, and Guillermo's "human amongst the fantastic" is running on fumes.
 
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Uncle Warren said:
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.
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People praising this show for "alphabet" representation have either never seen it, or are genuine degenerates.

Yes, two of the main male characters (Lazlo and Nandor) are "bisexual", but its depicted in the most perverted degenerate way possible.

Lazlo has sex in public, his primary seduction method is showing women his favourite pornography (also in public), he himself is addicted to pornography, his greatest regret in live is not climaxing one last time before becoming a vampire, he enjoys having sex with animals and is by all accounts a sex pest taken to an extreme so massive anyone who feels represented by him either is a sex offender or is about to be. Lazlo also does all this stuff while married (to a woman.)

Nandor is slightly better in that he doesn't fuck animals (that we know of, he does refer to his horse as "my honey, my dear", but that was before he became a degenerate so its like 99% chance it was genuine instead of sexual), but before he died was a notroious warlord (which is brought up often) and would rape and pillage all his conquests and his "bisexuality" primarily comes from the fact that his personal harem of possible sex slaves from conquests had 3 guys inbetween 30 or so women all of which were his "wives."


The characters aren't models to aspire to, but degenerates to laugh at. In hindsight considering that the alphabet community is full of degenerates it makes sense that they view these characters as "representative" instead of the assclowns they're meant to be.

"What we do in the shadows" is in many ways like "Its always sunny in philadelphia".

The characters are so inhumanely monstrous they loop back around to being funny and likable, but if anyone said "Wow, dennis is literally me" we'd call the police on them, and its the same case with the WWDITS cast.

TL;DR

The show isn't pozzed. If you like always sunny, you'll love this and vice versa.


EDIT: I may have spoken too soon.
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
I find the new season kinda boring. The last episode in the last season set up expectations that the show will change, but apparently not, we're back at the house... With the same people.

Kristen Schaal looks like she has aged 10 years.
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Yeah the new season isn't completely awful, but it isn't even remotely as good as the previous ones. Each episode feels like it ends too soon and they've basically dropped the three act structure previous episodes had, they just pick a concept and write jokes around it until 20 minutes are up which doesn't have the same punch as the well set up jokes previous seasons had, plus the writing has gotten a lot less mean/cynical which is what made it good in the first place.

There are also some leaks (and a line) indicating that the writers plan to turn Guillermo into a groomer which will prolly make me rescind my previous review about the show not being pozzed in this thread.
 
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They literally could not find a more hamfisted way of turning guillermo into a groomer.

He gives a big dramatic speech in front of his hardline traditional mexican family half of whom don't even speak english and the response is "We always know we love you family is family who cares" (direct quotes btw) and they all hug it out and when Nanjda erases their memory (every time the vampires have messed with people's memory in the past they've fucked it up) she makes sure to leave the fact that he's gay so all well that ends well.

When IASIP outed mac as gay they did it by having him fuck himself in the ass with a dildo bike called the ass pounder 9000 to the point where he couldn't even walk straight after making jokes about him being the most flaming faggot ever 50 times per episode in the previous seasons.

I rescind my review, the show is indeed pozzed, but seasons 1-3 are still worth watching at least once.
 
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Taika was too distracted by Thor 4 to make season 4 good it sounds like. What a shame, should have had Jemaine babysit the writers.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
Yea season 4 is lackluster.

It's like the last season of scrubs; the show should have ended last season.
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The last season of scrubs wasn't even scrubs, it was just a pilot season for another show after scrubs got unofficially cancelled that just so happened to feature the same characters.

Anyway, as for what we do in the shadows itself, it has been already paid for a couple more seasons (5 or 6 I think), but judging by the ratings going down season by season with 4 being the worst one yet, paired with the decline in writing quality I don't think its gonna get another renewal.

If you're curious you can check ratings here.

tvseriesfinale.com

What We Do in the Shadows: Season Four Ratings

We don't have to wonder if What We Do in the Shadows will be cancelled right now. The FX show has already been renewed for a fifth and a sixth season.
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Legend of korra did this as well, turn a main character (or two) into groomers in an attempt to salvage bad ratings. Bold move, didn't work back then, but who knows, maybe it will now, doubt it tho, the groomer episode has the second worst ratings of the shows entire 4 year run.

Plus it (combined with the general decline) is a good red flag that the writers have officially stopped giving a shit so everyone who was skittish about jumping ship can comfortably do it now. I know I'm not gonna bother with the rest of the season.
 
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This last episode I think has ended the show for me. What started out as an interesting & promising premise ended with the same dumb joke and bad characters from the worst episodes.

I don't care about Guillermo being gay. They've been insinuating he's in love with Nandor from the beginning and his character is anything but masculine. And the reveal was 15, admittedly lame and ham handed, minutes of one episode.

I do care that the show isn't funny anymore and the dialog is cringy at best. They keep rehashing the same jokes and the same situations. I don't want to ever see that fucking witches hat ever again. It wasn't that funny the first time and it's boring now. Child Colin Robinson is dull, I feel like one of his previous incarnation's victims when he's on screen. How many times do we need to see Guillermo cleaning up dead bodies?

I also really don't like the other vampire interactions. Not that there isn't potential, but those episodes end up being the worst and it's the same vampires with the same gimmicks and the same lines. I was really looking forward to seeing them split up after last years finale and it would have been cool to see them interact with new vampires. Too bad that didn't happen and we instead have smaller sets in the same increasingly smaller world.

The best episodes of the show are when the vampires are out in the world or interacting with normal humans trying (and failing, mostly) to fit in. It's the same thing that made the original Addams Family so good. Weirdos trying to interact with confused and horrified regular people. Jackie Daytona, Atlantic City, the college kids, and even the nerd vampire hunters were all great. I get that it's expensive to do that. But I'd rather have fewer episodes that are funny or at least watchable than a glut of them stuck in the house or some small set like the club.
 
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duckbutter&toejamsandwich said:
I do care that the show isn't funny anymore and the dialog is cringy at best. They keep rehashing the same jokes and the same situations. I don't want to ever see that fucking witches hat ever again. It wasn't that funny the first time and it's boring now. Child Colin Robinson is dull, I feel like one of his previous incarnation's victims when he's on screen. How many times do we need to see Guillermo cleaning up dead bodies?
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My main issue with season 4 is that most of the jokes have devolved into family guy tier gags at best. One off jokes that have no setup, no payoff, and don't lead anywhere. Other than "lol so random"

Chief example, the "jersey devil". Nandor and Lazlo spent half of the episode in a cabin bickering, then the jersey devil appears, then they kill it.

What's the punchline? That a supernatural creature in a show that has repeatedly shown us that all supernatural creatures are real, is in fact real?

A lot of episodes seem to have just given up on setup, payoff or punchlines, the night market had the potential to be one of the best episodes because it went back to the docummentary roots, but then they spent half the episode on nandor and guiremo dueling while bickering like an old couple, a joke that has been beaten to death at this point that ends without no joke and no punchline.

The only joke this season that even attempted to do setup and pay was the striking wraith one with the nile lilly, but it was mediocre at best and they hinged the entire episode on that one joke.

Married with children did the same joke in chicago shoe exchange but actually bothered giving it a payoff because they commited to the "barter" theme.

In general it feels like they've given up on the 3 act structure, they just toss vaguely funny stuff at the screen until the runtime is up, every single episode that has ended I was left feeling with "that's it?"
 
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Yeah, I don't like some of the character changes they've been making these last two seasons. Nadja is almost a completely different character. And all the vampires turned from out-of-touch and passively ignorant of what's going on around them, to modern-conscious and actively malicious towards the people around them. I wish they'd do something with Marwah.

Baby Colin does make me laugh, though. I just wish they wouldn't have his boring-ness be the solution to their problems. It kinda ruins the joke to celebrate that aspect of the character.
 
duckbutter&toejamsandwich said:
The best episodes of the show are when the vampires are out in the world or interacting with normal humans trying (and failing, mostly) to fit in.
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And Guillermo failing at pleasing the vampires, failing at becoming a vampire and constantly facing the reality that his main strength is being an efficient (but underappreciated) servant was something that defined the character.

I know the novelty wears off, but I always liked the intervew parts of the show where the vampires talk about their previous experiences, often accompanied with odd art and shoops, and delve into the absurd. The writers really seemed to have fun with those.

Nandor was great at first, but his story arc is garbage.
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
I've stopped watching, can you elaborate? I know this week is the guillermo's "boyfriend" episode.

If nandor did something based like killing him I might consider starting watching again.
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If only. He turns his wife into an exact replica of Guillermo's boyfriend so the he can fuck him.
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
I've stopped watching, can you elaborate? I know this week is the guillermo's "boyfriend" episode.

If nandor did something based like killing him I might consider starting watching again.
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So Guillermo's boyfriend, Fred, comes to visit from England. He's a twinky, cringy nerd, but Guillermo adores him and is excited to see him. Nandor meets him and falls for his autistic level of conversation and asks the Genie (I thought he was out of wishes?) to turn Marwa into an exact copy of Fred. Nandoe & Fred2 copy all the stuff Guillermo & Fred1 do out on the town. While Nandor and his Fred (Fred2) are having sex, Guillermo and Fred 1 walk in and freak out. Nanador makes the Freds cool with each other. Then Fred 1 leaves to go back to England. Nandor then puts his Fred2 on a train to be "free to see the world" in a brief moment of guilt. Guillermo goes to England to visit Fred1 only to see him in love with Fred2. Side plots are Baby Colin becomes a teenager and Nadja's club can't survive without him. Jokes are as lame and predictable as possible

I am too autistic to leave a season unfinished, but this is fucking torture.
 
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