What We Do in the Shadows (TV Series) Sunrise, Sunset (2022) User Reviews

If I may say so, it was a sweet ending.

[iggles36 · 9/10 · 8 September 2022]

It may not be what you expect to hear about a silly vampire documentary comedy show, but when did you ever think the combination of those words would ever exist. With this season's storylines coming to a close the way they did, it DOES make me wonder what they will do next season. Pretty much everything is back where it was at the beginning. The last minute of the show is about the only potential twist, and even that has been an ongoing plot point since the beginning. Maybe they will focus on how Nandor will handle it?

This season, with all its missteps, still wound up being pretty solid in the end. The song at the end was touching to say the least. Lazslo's 💔 made me cry. But it's just a silly vampire documentary comedy. How can it make you care like that? Well, for me at least, it did. See you next season.

I hope that season 5 can live up to this.

[JohnIRTMAN · 9/10 · 8 September 2022]

I find that I am still very mixed on this season. It definitely had some so-so episodes, but it also had some really good ones. I'm happy to say that, in my opinion, this is best episode of the season. I really liked how they wrapped up the baby Colin Robinson story. They were able to play it comedically, while also giving some genuine emotion through Lazlo's reaction. The Nadja story was weaker, but still okay.

I think the episode's ending was really good, and has the potential to really progress the shows overarching story...if they follow through with it. That was the biggest problem of the season. I enjoyed season 4 a lot, but the missed potential infuriates me. Season 3 set up different storylines for all the characters, and instead of playing that out, season 4 dropped it immediately and brought all the characters back to the same exact spot. If they do that for season 5 it'll be so annoying. It ended with Guillermo talking about how nothing ever changes, and he is right. They are 4 seasons into the show, it is okay to make Guillermo a vampire at this point, it'll help keep the show fresh.

Overall this is one of my favorite episodes of the show. I think Colin Robinson's story was the highlight of the season, in part because it is the only real storyline carried over from the season 3 finale. Season 5 has a lot of potential with how they ended this season, so I hope they don't mess it up.

It suddenly got real

[royareyhaneh · 9/10 · 8 September 2022]

I genuinely was surprised when I watched this whole season... Cause I expected it to be the same goofy kinda show which it wasn't! And frankly that is the same thing that I LOVED about these 10 episodes. They got that goofy material and made it important, realistic and overwhelming. Yeah it got bitter at some point, but what kind of story is Not bitter after all?!

And also I noticed that all the characters faced some issues in this season that made them grow and earn some experience. At the end I reviewed the whole story and I found out the true greatness of every single character's unique path.

I've always loved the show... But now I love it even more :)

And... we are back on track!

[tiny_Snail · 9/10 · 8 September 2022]

After last week's complete flounder, I was relieved to see this show feeling a little more like itself and make a strong return for the season finale. Even if last episode was an unexpected disappointment, this was still an overall excellent season.

This final episode was very funny and tastefully bitter-sweet, the comedy was well-placed and well-paced and the flow of the events on screen felt right. It reminded me of how much I like these characters and why.

The episode ends on a cliffhanger but it's a good kind of cliffhanger that will leave you excited for next season without leaving you in pain.

I keep 1 star for myself because Nadja's subplot this episode was rather repetitive and I feel like the end of her arc could've been handled in a more interesting manner.

Vulgarity & Hilarity - S04 Review

[JoshuaMercott · 8/10 · 2 October 2022]

A mansion in shambles, a vampire nightclub dream-project, a secret supernatural Night Market, Nandor finally tying the knot, and Baby Colin. These were some of the highlights that made watching "What We Do in the Shadows" season 4 a treat.

Directing this laugh-fest were Yana Gorskaya, Kyle Newacheck, Tig Fong, and DJ Stipsen. Each of them did great work in S04. Writers Stefani Robinson, Paul Simms, Wally Baram, Aasia LaShay Bullock, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, William Meny, Ayo Edebiri, Shana Gohd, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Marika Sawyer, Jake Bender, and Zach Dunn typed up amazing screenplays.

Memorable work all round by the production design, musical scoring, and cinematography teams. Sound editing, set decoration, and costume design were exemplary. Hair-makeup and VFX were great.

Kayvan Novak's Nandor continued to impress. His natural performance was laudable. Matt Berry's Laszlo Cravensworth was a lesson in comedic genius. Natasia Demetriou's Nadja was unforgettable. She grabbed the spotlight in nearly every scene she featured.

Harvey Guillén's Guillermo de la Cruz was great. Plenty of story arcs hinged on his performance this season, and he delivered. Mark Proksch's Colin Robinson, particularly as Baby Colin, gave a new and nuanced performance this season.

Kristen Schaal as the Guide was great. Baron Afanas, played by Doug Jones, was captivating in the few scenes he featured. All other cast and crew were good in "What We Do in the Shadows" S04 now streaming on Hulu.

This season was all about reclaiming what was lost. The dysfunctional vampires at the heart (pun intended) of this misadventure experienced new moments and had to build back what was broken, starting with their mansion followed by their dignity.

Love was also in the air, not to forget a hilarious healing of old wounds. Nandor's wedding and Nadja's vampire nightclub goals were both equally entertaining sequences. Not a single scene featuring Laszlo was dull.

This show - rather, mockumentary - was intended to be clichéd and corny. They blended horror and fantasy in captivating comedic ways, particularly with their documentary-style captures. How they managed to balance it all in such a way as to give fans four great seasons that evoked belly-laughter is beyond me.

"What We Do in the Shadows" S04, and the ones that preceded it, are Canada's love-letter to comedy. This season particularly contained more than a few vulgar moments amidst a sea of hilarious ones. I enjoyed sitting through all ten episodes in S04. Keep the seasons coming, this show never gets old - barefaced vampire pun intended.

I know I should've anticipated that ending a mile away, and yet it took me by surprise. Let's just say, season 5 "What We Do in the Shadows" is going to be fascinating.

OMG what an episode it could have been

[nikitkas · 9/10 · 19 February 2023]

When Laszlo was looking at the racing bed and Colin Robinson was not remembering any of his childhood memories over the past year that they shared - it was such a sad and profound moment that any parent could relate to... BUT it could've been so much more! The audience was already so emotionally there. It could've gone through a history montage of all the sweet moments they shared. It could have been such an epic emotional climax moment of the entire season. But instead it simply moved on from the sad Laszlo on the bed straight to the next scene. It could've been something so much more. Still good though.

finally the pain is ending...

[nerrdrage · 8/10 · 9 August 2023]

This show has always had a thin premise, good for 2-3 seasons max. They've done an admirable job drawing out every last bit of comedy potential but Guillermo was speaking for the audience when he complained that nothing ever happens and it's time for him to do something about it.

Colin's story went nowhere in the end. I was hoping the secret room would lead to the bowels of hell or someplace more interesting than his notebook collection. Oh well. Colin's story is just something I get thru to get to Guillermo's story, which at this point is really the backbone of this series.

I'm watching this on Hulu playing catchup and I am very grateful I didn't need to wait a year between this episode and the premiere of S5 to confirm whether the writers had the guts to change things up and save the show.

Season Four Review

[southdavid · 7/10 · 24 March 2023]

Once a few shaky episodes at the start were out of the way, I've really enjoyed "What We Do In The Shadows". The third season promised a few shake ups to the format, that, perhaps unfortunately, Season four works reasonably hard to reset. Ultimately though, this was another good run of the show.

The vampires reconvene on their Staten Island home after a year of travelling. They discover that Laszlo (Matt Berry) has been raising the child that burst out of the body of Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as his son and that the boys' destructive tendencies have severely damaged the house. To raise money for repairs, Nadia (Natasha Demetriou) plans to turn the vampiric council offices into a trendy nightclub. Nandor (Kayvan Novak) decides to fill the emptiness in his heart by finding a wife, he asks Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) to be his best man, which is nice, but still not what he wants from his master.

Whilst I wouldn't suggest that "WWDITS" is a total laugh riot, the show has been consistently amusing across the majority of it's run. It helps that I will always find Matt Berry's delivery funny and often that alone is enough to make a scene for me. The three big storylines for the season have an unfortunate tendency to keep the characters apart from each other, but each plotline is good. I think that the nightclub storyline was perhaps my favourite of the three, and utilised the three main cameos of the season, from Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch and Thomas Mars. The Colin Robinson one runs its course across this season, it makes sense to resolve in the way it does, even if it's a case of things coming back to how they were, rather than progressing.

I'll certainly be back for the fifth season, even if I'm perhaps slightly disappointed about the lack of progression in this run.

Episode 410

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 15 September 2022]

This has been a pretty good season of What We Do in the Shadows. Like so many seasons before it there were episodes that worked and episodes that didn't, but they had a few long-running arcs and we got a resolution to most of them here.

I don't understand why it is now Colin Robinson again and not Colin Robinson the 30th or something like that, but I'll let the slide. The character is awful in the adult stage, but the child one made a good foil for Laszlo.

As for Guillermo, they tease the being a vampire thing every season. We know his friend is not going to help him, so I guess that the journey of trying once again to get it done will be where the humor comes from in the next few episodes of Season 5. I doubt there is any surefire humor there, but we'll see.

Oh well, I'll miss not having this show on anymore for the next 9 months.