WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS is bat… I mean, back! And it’s just as relevant, funny, and outrageously violent after fifty-plus episodes. At this point, the ensemble is “familiar.” However, this show’s “acquired taste” will be missed when it departs our TV screens after the sixth season. I’m sad to see it go, yet I’m also excited for it to go out on its own terms. This group of lovable characters didn’t start the fire, but the show’s style will surely entertain audiences and “burn on, and on, and on” when it’s gone.
Check out the final season review from Aaron and Jami, guest-starring on the finale E11. 🦇
S6E1-E3 🤩
“WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS has returned from its “super slumber” just in time to fill homes with Halloween-worthy laughs.”
S6E4 RAILROAD 🤩
“RAILROAD “kills two cats with one arrow” as it takes the ensemble cast and splits them into two hilarious stories his week. The first involves Nandor and Guillermo. Their power play is flipped on its head as we see their dynamic change via their workplace comedy roles. Elsewhere, Colin and Lazlo’s dynamic continues to be a weekly highlight. They create a railroad scheme with some of the best one-liners in E4.“
S6E5 NANDOR’S ARMY 😊
“Nandor’s “SHUTTER ISLAND” ARMY might lack the comedy punch of last week’s RAILROAD, but it makes up for it via emotional payoffs for our lead characters. Furthermore, seeing The Baron back is fantastic (even if only for a few minutes).”
S6E6 LAZLO’S FATHER 🤩
“Steve Coogan is an actor who can improve any TV show or movie, and he does just that, playing Lazlo’s father in the latest WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. That combination of witty banter and homages to REAR WINDOW and GHOSTBUSTERS makes E6 a hilarious addition to this already funny series.“
S6E7 MARCH MADNESS 😊
“The MVP this week is easily Lazlo. Despite the seriousness of mortality, his character has one funny piece of dialogue after the next about demons and March Madness (don’t ask).“
S6E8 P.I. UNDERCOVER: NEW YORK 😊
“P.I. UNDERCOVER has a lot of fun as a film crew visits everyone’s favorite vampires of Staten Island. This week’s MVP is the paring of Collin with Nadja. The two of them go on a double date, which is a ton of fun. It’s also a blast getting to see all the “in-jokes” as Nandor explores video village and the film set (at the cost of only a few PAs).“
S6E9 COME OUT AND PLAY 🤩
“WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS delivers one of the best episodes in the series, spoofing THE WARRIORS and other movies and TV shows. As predicted, the series wisely returns to moving the story forward with a slew of reveals and one “truly bloody” vampire guest star.“
S6E10 THE PROMOTION 😊
“Everything’s coming up, Guillermo” in the penultimate episode of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. While most series have their second to last episode as the biggest bang for the audience’s buck, WWDITS does the opposite. The creators do what they do every season and reset the stakes for all that has come before to start over. Yet, this time, we won’t have it start over in an additional season, and it will simply be one final episode with our favorite vampires.“
S6E11 THE FINALE 🤩
“THE FINALE won me over by playing perfectly on how I feel about the show. Its ending feels a bit out of left field. Can’t this hilarious, unique show go on forever? And then fits exactly into a story that knows it’s time to move on. What’s changed? Nothing and everything. How can you end a nearly perfect show with an ending that satisfies everyone? WWDITS knows you can’t appease everyone, but it still drops some incredibly meta-moments for a series that was all along about a show within a show – the vampires and those around them being documented by a team of filmmakers making their own series about everything we’re watching as the viewers at home.“
– Jami
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Some final thoughts courtesy of Jami on what this show and final season means to her:
The time has come to bid farewell to our favorite TV vampires, Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, and Colin Robinson, and their trusty familiar/sidekick/friend Guillermo, and I, for one, am sad. Based on the 2014 film of the same name written and directed by Jermaine Clement (FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS) and Taika Waititi (THOR: RAGNORAK, JOJO RABBIT), WWDITS, for short, kicked off way back in 2019, about a goofy group of vampires living “the life” in Staten Island, New York. 2019 feels like a million years ago and last year at the same time. Covid and the related stay-at-home period have messed with my perception of time. Throughout it all, there’s been one constant: WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS.
This was a fantastic final season. Episodes 9 & 10 this year are some of my favorites of the entire run. I enjoyed every season, but seasons 3 & 4 are my least favorite, especially after Guillermo’s big reveal that ended S2. There are still some incredibly funny episodes in those seasons (S3’S THE ESCAPE, S4’S PRIVATE SCHOOL), but suddenly Guillermo got less interesting when the show didn’t seem to know what to do with his character. The biggest reveal about him was mostly scrapped for the remainder of the series but thankfully resurrected in S6’s E9. One could say the writers of THE FINALE even knew this by joking that Guillermo never really matured as a person.
Then there are the absolute best-of episodes, including S1’s BARON’S NIGHT OUT, BRAIN SCRAMBLES, and THE TRIAL, everything in S2 that had to do with Haley Joel Osment’s guest turn as Topher plus GHOSTS, COLIN’S PROMOTION, and ON THE RUN, the S3 & 4 episodes mentioned above, and S5’s PRIDE PARADE, to just name a few. Looking back at this, S2 was probably the best overall. The irony isn’t lost on me that Rotten Tomatoes had my least favorite seasons at 100% on their Tomatometer. Throughout the series, every character had their moment to be “my favorite,” depending on what was happening to them in the story. Now that all is said and done, I think Nandor (Kayvan Novak) is my overall favorite. I also spent weeks at a time loving Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), Laszlo (Matt Berry, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch). Then there’s the rotating supporting cast, including the likes of Doug Jones as the Baron, Kristen Schaal as The Guide, Nick Kroll as Simon, and countless other comedians and surprise guests. Dare I say one of the greatest comedic ensembles of all time?
My hope now that WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS has ended is that this entire cast goes on to do more greatness should they want to. Kristen Schaal pops up in a lot of other shows, and Matt Berry has 3 big movies out in 2025, but I’d love to see all of them, everywhere. One day, maybe one day very soon, I’ll kick back and binge the entire series again.
The entire series is available on Hulu FX.
