Spoilers

“Pilot”

After adding The Leftovers to the watchlist at EYG, I came across What We Do in the Shadows on Disney +. I loved the Taika Waititi written/directed movie that this was based on, and it was another show that I have heard many praises about, so I decided to add this to The Leftovers and The X-Files rotation.

What We Do in the Shadows currently has six season and 61 episodes.

What a hoot this show was. The story is there are four vampires living together in Staten Island and there is a documentary crew filming their every day lives. The vampires are Nandor the Relentless, Lazlo and Nadja, who are married, and Colin Robinson, the energy vampire. There is also Nandor’s familiar, Guillermo, who served Nandor for ten years.

The writing of the dialogue of this pilot episode was fantastic, with such a clever spin on the idea of vampires and building upon the movie. It was a hilarious episode, where I laughed out loud multiple times. You can definitely feel the Taika Waititi flavor of the show, as he did direct the episode. The pilot was written by Jemaine Clement, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the original movie with Taika Waititi.

I am curious to see if this series can maintain this level of humor and creativity over a long run of episodes. I can see this being a show where the story runs dry after awhile. It is an intriguing set up and I want to see where they take it from here.