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Because Vampires are gay.
What We Do in the Shadows - American tv series inspired by Kiwi* movie
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I finished Season five. It had some good moments but was mostly forgettable. It seems like they crammed most of the shoehorned gay shit into the Pride Parade episode so there was a more focus on interesting content. The FX were really good this season but the writing has really fizzled. I still think they should have stopped somewhere between seasons one and two. Maybe switch it up with a new group every season like a "Real World" type thing. Or just put a stake in it and be done.
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The first 3 seasons are all great, its season 4 where it goes downhill imo.
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There are ways to mix drama with comedy and wwdis has done it before. Lazlo's speech on why he hates england, Lazlo being heartbroken over baby colin essentially dying, Lazlo's letter on deciding to stay back behind to take care of baby colin, were all good moments that capped the comedy with the drama and felt like genuine and real reactions from the characters.
But season 5 seems to have completely lost the ability to do that. The baron finds out the truth and for a second things get serious and intimidating then they just resolve it in five minutes by tying a rope around him, then shit gets real again with the second burn and then they resolve it in another five minutes by just telling the baron to get over it, so what was even the point of that?
They spent the whole season setting up how Nandor is going to be dealt the ultimate absolute humiliation and Nandor gets pure unfiltered blood rage to muder gizmo and after killing patton oswald that's also resolved in 5 minutes, so wtf was the point of hyping it up for 10 episodes if you're gonna make nothing of it?
Gizmo gets one of his friends killed in a serious dramatic moment and then they make a joke out of it with the necromancer the next.
The tonal whiplash is just too much. Again you can make tragedy and comedy at the same time, literally this very show has done the exact same thing before, but the way they handled it here doesn't feel natural.
It feels like actors following a script instead of characters organically responding to the world around them; characters change their minds way too fast on stuff they were absolutely determined on and as a result they don't feel like real people anymore, and the fact that they've been flanderized to hell and back doesn't help.
Nandor is basically a bumbling retard now and Nadja has regressed into a dumb child.
Collin went from the extreme straight man who derived comedy from his plainness to just another wacky dipshit. The guy who's entire character, personality and joke setup was that he was so vanilla and boring, his 23 and me results literally said he was just "white" was actually davy crocket's secret boyfriend all along.
Someone looked at Collin and thought he was too plain, so they have him emote a lot more in season 5 and have him act wacky and stupid when his entire point was being the straight man to the point of absurdity as a contrast to the vampires.
Why the fuck was he acting like a clown in the local news episode? He should have been the voice of reason, he knows how the real world works, he literally does taxes, pays the bills and spends most of his time blending into the human world, he would not have been freaking out, if anything he should have just been laughing at the other 3 idiots.
Gizmo was the writer's pet for seasons 3 and (most of) 4 and after Nandor buckbroke him at the end of s4 he's been left completely unmotivated and directionless for season 5 so all he does is look sad and whine a lot.
Lazlo is the only character that's somehow become more nuanced with time.
Part of why the comedy works so well in s1 and s2 is the consistency and realistic reactions of the characters, as absurd as they may be. There's no consequences for anything anymore so all the comedy that relies on stakes doesn't work either.
Gizmo's season long arc about secretly becoming a vampire is basically resolved in 5 minutes and his entire series long arc about wanting to becoming a vampire is ALSO resolved in 5 minutes.
And also the whole "If the vampired who sired you dies you age back to your normal age" is a huge plothole because
A.) Petyr
B.) The gang was planning to kill the baron in what? Episode 1-2?
The quality of the show started spiraling in season 3 and now season 4 and 5 feel like a loose collection of vampire themed family guy cutaway gags.
In earlier seasons the jokes were focused around sitiuational comedy and predicaments, now their brand of comedy is just loud, wacky, and random. I see people defend it by going "its a comedy" and just fuck off with that honestly, you can say the same thing about family guy and adam sandler movies.
Since when does something being a comedy mean that it also has to be retarded? Comedy can be smart and insightful.
Nobody who has ever watched original futurama has ever gone "Yeah, I know this show is smart and insightful while also being funny and clever, but I feel it would be considerably improved if we turned it into a series of contextless cutaway gags with no continuity or consistency."
When people were praising s1-2 nobody was going "I wish it was stupider tho."
The only other shows I've seen start off with such unbelievably groundbreakingly amazing first seasons and then jump off a cliff this hard this fast is westworld and the boys.
But season 5 seems to have completely lost the ability to do that. The baron finds out the truth and for a second things get serious and intimidating then they just resolve it in five minutes by tying a rope around him, then shit gets real again with the second burn and then they resolve it in another five minutes by just telling the baron to get over it, so what was even the point of that?
They spent the whole season setting up how Nandor is going to be dealt the ultimate absolute humiliation and Nandor gets pure unfiltered blood rage to muder gizmo and after killing patton oswald that's also resolved in 5 minutes, so wtf was the point of hyping it up for 10 episodes if you're gonna make nothing of it?
Gizmo gets one of his friends killed in a serious dramatic moment and then they make a joke out of it with the necromancer the next.
The tonal whiplash is just too much. Again you can make tragedy and comedy at the same time, literally this very show has done the exact same thing before, but the way they handled it here doesn't feel natural.
It feels like actors following a script instead of characters organically responding to the world around them; characters change their minds way too fast on stuff they were absolutely determined on and as a result they don't feel like real people anymore, and the fact that they've been flanderized to hell and back doesn't help.
Nandor is basically a bumbling retard now and Nadja has regressed into a dumb child.
Collin went from the extreme straight man who derived comedy from his plainness to just another wacky dipshit. The guy who's entire character, personality and joke setup was that he was so vanilla and boring, his 23 and me results literally said he was just "white" was actually davy crocket's secret boyfriend all along.
Someone looked at Collin and thought he was too plain, so they have him emote a lot more in season 5 and have him act wacky and stupid when his entire point was being the straight man to the point of absurdity as a contrast to the vampires.
Why the fuck was he acting like a clown in the local news episode? He should have been the voice of reason, he knows how the real world works, he literally does taxes, pays the bills and spends most of his time blending into the human world, he would not have been freaking out, if anything he should have just been laughing at the other 3 idiots.
Gizmo was the writer's pet for seasons 3 and (most of) 4 and after Nandor buckbroke him at the end of s4 he's been left completely unmotivated and directionless for season 5 so all he does is look sad and whine a lot.
Lazlo is the only character that's somehow become more nuanced with time.
Part of why the comedy works so well in s1 and s2 is the consistency and realistic reactions of the characters, as absurd as they may be. There's no consequences for anything anymore so all the comedy that relies on stakes doesn't work either.
Gizmo's season long arc about secretly becoming a vampire is basically resolved in 5 minutes and his entire series long arc about wanting to becoming a vampire is ALSO resolved in 5 minutes.
And also the whole "If the vampired who sired you dies you age back to your normal age" is a huge plothole because
A.) Petyr
B.) The gang was planning to kill the baron in what? Episode 1-2?
The quality of the show started spiraling in season 3 and now season 4 and 5 feel like a loose collection of vampire themed family guy cutaway gags.
In earlier seasons the jokes were focused around sitiuational comedy and predicaments, now their brand of comedy is just loud, wacky, and random. I see people defend it by going "its a comedy" and just fuck off with that honestly, you can say the same thing about family guy and adam sandler movies.
Since when does something being a comedy mean that it also has to be retarded? Comedy can be smart and insightful.
Nobody who has ever watched original futurama has ever gone "Yeah, I know this show is smart and insightful while also being funny and clever, but I feel it would be considerably improved if we turned it into a series of contextless cutaway gags with no continuity or consistency."
When people were praising s1-2 nobody was going "I wish it was stupider tho."
The only other shows I've seen start off with such unbelievably groundbreakingly amazing first seasons and then jump off a cliff this hard this fast is westworld and the boys.
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Stab You in the Back
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The writing in the final season felt unbelievably lazy. They legit reused joke setups in back to back episodes and I knew to not bother afterwards.
Still haven't seen the last six episodes.
Still haven't seen the last six episodes.
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I thought it went out on an alright, non-disappointing note that I didn't hate. They were apparently out to troll anybody who was hoping the show would build to any kind of epic or revelatory conclusion. Season 6 may have been the most episodic, with the least actual plot.