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THE final season of American comedy horror mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows premieres on Hulu on October 22.
Based on the 2014 New Zealand film of the same name, the show follows vampires Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou), and energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) who share a home, as they clash with the modern world, each other, and other supernatural beings.
The series also tackles Nandor’s human servant Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) who attempts to balance his loyalty with his desire to become a vampire.
The beloved series is concluding and executive producer Paul Simms
revealed that it ‘felt right’.
“A little too soon and a little too late. We’ve all seen shows that tried to hang around a little too long,” Paul said in an interview.
“Also we just wanted to do a final season where we still had tonnes of funny stuff to do.
“If you’ve never seen it before, you could still tune in and understand everything that’s happening, but do something also for the hardcore fans who followed every twist and turn.
“It really is to me one of the funniest and most fun seasons we’ve done,” he added.
The series’ creator Jemaine Clement also directed and acted in the original movie alongside Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi who serves as an executive producer for the series.
After the shutting down of a piracy website in 2018, it was revealed that the mockumentary film was one of the most pirated, reaching 277,000 downloads.
The film’s success was followed by the 2018 spinoff television series Wellington Paranormal, which tackled Kyle Minogue (Mike Minogue) and Leary O’Leary (Karen O’Leary) who first appeared in the film as a pair of incurious police officers. The year after, the What We Do in the Shadows series premiered its first season, which brought back the film’s original cast in the seventh episode entitled The Trial.
The critically acclaimed series has been nominated for 29 Emmy awards including for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020, 2022 and 2024.
