Five years after it started and six seasons later, “What We Do In The Shadows” comes to an end this October. A spin-off series based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, “What We Do in the Shadows,” as most fans already know, is a mockumentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who’ve “lived” together for hundreds of years in Staten Island.
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“What We Do In The Shadows” originally started documenting the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island. With the help of the former familiar and current human friend, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), ‘Shadows’ expanded to include the vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, The Guide (Kristen Schaal).
Season six also picks up where the previous season ended, with Guillermo briefly becoming a vampire and now trying to figure out the future of his life. “What We Do In The Shadows” and its final season introduces old housemate Jerry the vampire (“Saturday Night Live” alum Mike O’Brien), who has been in a “super-slumber” for five decades because Laszlo and the group forgot to wake him up on New Year’s Eve 1996.
Here’s the official synopsis:
After a very brief stint as a full-blown vampire, Guillermo is re-evaluating his life. Who is he, if not a familiar, who will do anything to please his Master in hopes of one day being turned into a vampire? Meanwhile, the vampires are re-evaluating, too. When their former roommate reappears after a 50-year nap, they realize how little they’ve done in half a century — not one goal accomplished, not one dream pursued, not one part of the New World conquered (except for their street and part of Ashley Street).
In the sixth and final season of the Emmy-nominated comedy, Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, Colin, and Guillermo will enter the workforce, visit New Hampshire, go to a human dinner party, fête The Baron, and conjure a demon — all while trying to find their place and their purpose in this crazy, mixed-up world.
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Longtime series directors Kyle Newacheck and Yana Gorskaya, along with one of the main writers, Paul Simms, and a large writer’s room.
The series’ executive producers are Paul Simms, Jemaine Clement, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Yana Gorskaya, Kyle Newacheck, Taika Waititi, Garrett Basch, and Eli Bush. What We Do in the Shadows is produced by FX Productions.
“What We Do In The Shadows” premieres October 21 on FX and streams the same day on Hulu. Watch the first trailer below.