S06.E01: The Return of Jerry / S06.E02: Headhunting / S06.E03: Sleep Hypnosis

[Galileo908]

The Return of Jerry:

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The vampires' long lost fifth roommate returns.

Headhunting:

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Guillermo gets a new job, and Colin helps Laszlo make a new friend.

Sleep Hypnosis:

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A dispute over who gets to use the newly available empty room under the stairs gets out of control.

Airs 10/21/24

Yes, we get THREE new episodes tonight! I saw the first two at the NY Comic Con panel, and you're all in for a treat.

[Lantern7]

23 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

Yes, we get THREE new episodes tonight! I saw the first two at the NY Comic Con panel, and you're all in for a treat.

One day, we need to meet there.

[Galileo908]

The Return of Jerry:

SNL's Mike O'Brien as Jerry The Vampire! He was supposed to wake up in 1996...and of course the rest forgot. LOVED that Colin Robinson's idea to catch him up was showing him We Didn't Start The Fire (and Jerry was alive during most of it!) If he REALLY wanted to drain Jerry, he would've used Fallout Boy's version. Also liked that this was the ep that finally asked some important questions, like...why is the documentary filming them? Who's gonna see it? Since when did the house have an elevator? And how adding a new character this far into a show's run that's supposedly been there the whole time changes the group dynamic. So naturally he gets paired off with The Guide to bring back the plot of them conquering The New World.

Man, loved that Colin kept getting fat over the vamp's negative energy. Fun fact: Nandor's "can I get a beep beep?" was improvised.

Colin asking Jerry about The Dress killed at the NYCC panel.

And we have our new arcs in season 6: Laszlo reanimating human life (NOT like Frankenstein), Nadja wanting a human job, and Gizmo living in Laszlo's whack shack (for $350 a week. That's NY for ya) and making his way back into normal life.

Headhunting:

Gizmo finally has a real job: working up the corporate ladder with a little help from Nadja and Nandor. And Tim Heidecker was his boss! So convenient that they do business in Asia, so they have to work nights, it's perfect for vampires. Nadja's Working Girl/9 to 5 look was killing. I was cackling at Nandor cleaning stains with the whole paper towel roll. 

Laszlo is certainly in his Dr. Frankenfurter phase. I mean, his first choice of head was Rock Hudson's, you'd expect him to sleep with it. 

"Another scientist inspired. First Mr. Oppenheimer, now Colin Robinson." Why am I not surprised that Colin had to build his first friend? But he honestly made a connection with Monster! His head loved Latin Jazz, so that's how you get through to him.

The props on this show continue to kill. Love the 100 year old raccoon operated jack off machine.

OF COURSE Colin is an uber driver! Kinda wish we saw more of that beyond the montage of kicking out all the duds. 

Sleep Hypnosis:

Laszlo turned Gizmo's space into a gym! I'm dead. Speaking of, LOVED Nandor getting sleep hypnotized into being Richard Nixon. 

Speaking of group dynamics, Colin's worried about being kicked out of the house thanks to the new balance of power. Love that he has a giant poster of David Schwimmer and puts on his winter clothes just to go over to Gizmo's shed. Didn't he come with the house? Why is he so worried? I do like the development he's been getting in these eps. He's my favorite, so I've been eating well tonight.

It was great seeing Baron again! He got healed by Gizmo's frog monster babies weird spit. Loved that he kept hypnotizing himself, and how everyone's minds got completely wiped by it. Of course they still fight over the space. And then The Guide shows up to reset it immediately. Oh no, Gizmo reset himself! Oh thank god Nandor felt bad about keeping him in default mode and hit the rest button on that, too rather than get their familiar back. That's character development right there.

[Lantern7]

Like @Galileo908 noted, the first two episodes were screened at New York Comic Con, and they were well-received. In other news, I hope Kayvan Novak finds a new role soon, because it is really trippy to hear him not talk like Nandor. He did do the voice a few times in the panel. Needless to say, it killed.

I did feel a tiny bit of nausea seeing Tim Heidecker's name in the credits. I subjected myself to some of what he and Eric (not bothering to look up the last name) did on Adult Swim, and it mostly sucked ass. Mostly two chimps flinging shit on a wall and watching it slide down. But I can live with him playing a recurring character. Maybe Nadja will kill him.

Jerry also feels like an acquired taste. Great concept: the vampires forgot all about their friend, letting him sleep almost three decades longer than he had planned. On the bright side, sometimes you need to be reminded that these guys are vampires, capable of being much more than their mundane selves. But we need them to be idiots because it's funnier that way. It's also funny to see the gang doubt themselves. Colin Robinson getting huge from all the negative energy was a nice touch.

"Sleep Hypnosis" was a bit one-note, but still pretty good. Also, you get Kayvan doing Richard Nixon because Colin Robinson decided to throw that in. Hilarious, as was the ensuing chaos from each character coming to identical realizations about sleep hypnosis. The bit about Guillermo accidentally hypnotizing himself and coming to apply to for the familiar position was sweet . . . as long as you don't question where he was coming from before he reached the mansion. Did he start from Laszlo's old jack-off shed? Eh, never mind.

I guess that we still have The Guide as the misfit tag-along vampire forever following the other misfit vampires. At least her scenes didn't feel that tacked on. Maybe she'll hook up with Jerry . . . but my money is on her running off with the monster. It would feel fitting and break Colin Robinson's heart.

[libgirl2]

I only managed to stay awake for the first two episodes (I'm a very early sleeper) and had such a great time. I missed this show. 

I loved Colin in the scooter, Nandor the "not so nice guy", the Uber driving and of course Guillermo getting a good job. 

So much fun in 2 episodes. 

 

Edited October 22 by libgirl2

[Starchild]

I usually LOL (literally) several to many times per episode with this show, but the first two episodes only garnered a few smiles, and I was getting a little worried about the writing for season 6.

Thank goodness ep 3 we were back to form, that was hilarious.

[StatisticalOutlier]

16 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

But we need them to be idiots because it's funnier that way.

I can't remember what I was referring to from last night's first episode, but I said, "Those dumb vampires."  Not a sentence I had ever predicted saying.

I love spending time with these folks.

[SeanBug]

I think I laughed the hardest at Nandor doing Nixon. 

I'm kinda sad that when Guillermo visited The Baron and the Sire, the Hellhound aka Aspen the Golden Retriever wasn't there.

Colin Robinson using his phone to translate Nandor's Al Quolanudarese (?). 

Jerry yelling "I know what a fucking car is!!!"  

We Didn't Start the Fire...Nandor did. 

 

[Galileo908]

18 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Like @Galileo908 noted, the first two episodes were screened at New York Comic Con, and they were well-received. In other news, I hope Kayvan Novak finds a new role soon, because it is really trippy to hear him not talk like Nandor. He did do the voice a few times in the panel. Needless to say, it killed.

It's weird finding out actors notable for one voice have a completely different normal voice. See also: Dominic Purcell (Prison Break, Mick Rory on Legends of Tomorrow), and Cliff Chapin (the dub voice of Bakugou from MHA. He does NOT actually sound like that and it weirded me out)

Some nice details: Nandor giving the Checkers speech to Guillermo, who the Vamps saw more as a pet, and Colin showing Jerry The Dress in landscape mode. The original picture was in Portrait.

[SeanBug]

16 minutes ago, Galileo908 said:

Colin showing Jerry The Dress in landscape mode. The original picture was in Portrait.

OMG I died at that one. 

I need to rewatch all three episodes, I watched really early this morning and I'm sure I missed some good stuff. 

I think I'll have nightmares about the raccoon operating the jack off machine. 

[Galileo908]

12 minutes ago, SeanBug said:

I need to rewatch all three episodes, I watched really early this morning and I'm sure I missed some good stuff. 

I caught that on my THIRD viewing.

[possibilities]

I love this show so much. How do they stay so well-written after all these seasons, when many shows can't even get it right every episode of one season? They never run out of ideas! I love it. 

[peeayebee]

So great to have the show back. 

Not sure which ep I liked the most. Maybe the 3rd one. I will admit that I didn't get what was going on with the Baron repeating himself until Guillermo said something like, "Oh I see what's happening."

Nandor as Nixon was so good. 

Loved everyone saying about sleep hypnosis, "Can such a thing be done?" or whatever exactly they said.

Everyone on the show is excellent, but I really get a thrill when The Baron shows up. Glad the skin-care regimen is working for him.

[thuganomics85]

What We Do In the Shadows is back for its final season and they kick things off with THREE episodes!  Talk about spoiling us!

Thought all of the episodes had their moments, but I think I personally preferred "Sleep Hypnosis" since it had more laugh out loud moments, the cast mainly played off one another and weren't paired off, and it ended on a touching note.  Plus, Nandor/Kayvan Novak busted out a surprisingly good Richard Nixon imitation.  Guy is talented (as is everyone in the cast.)

One thing I found interesting throughout all three episodes was that they took even more time than normal to highlight the film crew and the gang interacting with them.  They even had some of them wondering what this is exactly being filmed for.  I'm curious about that myself.  I have to imagine with this being the last season, we might get a resolution over how this documentary came to be and if there is another purpose besides just watching three wacky vampires, an energy-draining vampire, and a long-suffering familiar cause mayhem on good old Staten Island!

Some solid guest appearances from Mike O'Brien and Tim Heidecker this go around.  But my favorite was naturally Doug Jones' return as The Baron.  Love that guy!  Both the character and the actor.

The props department seemed to be having a lot of fun with all of those body parts!  Filming on this show must be wild!

A little sad that we will be saying good-bye to our gang soon, but I'm going to enjoy the ride till the end!

[SeanBug]

12 hours ago, possibilities said:

I love this show so much. How do they stay so well-written after all these seasons, when many shows can't even get it right every episode of one season? They never run out of ideas! I love it. 

I think it's a little easier with this premise (not to say that Taika, Jermaine and the writers aren't brilliant), because it's "fantasy" they can change anything or bring in new characters and story lines anytime they want.  Guillermo was a familiar, then he was a vampire killer with skills Buffy would envy, and now he's in finance on Wall Street. 

Jerry has been sleeping in the house the last five seasons. That wouldn't happen with a reality based, human character show. I mean I guess it could but it would be right up there with "Bobby dying was all a dream" on Dallas.  Showing no respect for the viewers' intelligence. 

But with this premise, we're all in with "sure, another vampire has been there the whole time".  The house is huge and these vampires are so self involved of course they would forget a friend for 30 years. 

And the Baron went from that terrifying monster from the pilot to a younger, genial vampire with a wicked sense of humor and gorgeous skin, due to the frogs that Lazlow created from whatever weird experiment he was doing. 

I am really hoping they bring back Gregor, aka Jesh, Jesk, Jetsh.  Sure he was decapitated, but he also gets reincarnated. No problem!

[libgirl2]

21 hours ago, SeanBug said:

I think I laughed the hardest at Nandor doing Nixon. 

I'm kinda sad that when Guillermo visited The Baron and the Sire, the Hellhound aka Aspen the Golden Retriever wasn't there.

Colin Robinson using his phone to translate Nandor's Al Quolanudarese (?). 

Jerry yelling "I know what a fucking car is!!!"  

We Didn't Start the Fire...Nandor did. 

 

He was doing a great Nixon! Wow! And I loved how they kept bringing things up to Jerry and how annoyed he was with that. And his reaction to the doll! 

Nandor as a janitor was fun. Nadja killing the one guy... Lazlo never hearing of Frankenstein. Colin Robinson getting a friend. 

So many fun moments on this show. 

Edited October 23 by libgirl2

[Krathoon]

I always like how the vampires have horrible memories. The human brain can't remember hundreds of years. So, certain things are forgotten. They got so used to living without Jerry that they forgot him.

[pasdetrois]

Early in the first episode, I noticed two things. Colin Robinson exclaimed "Uffda," which is a Scandinavian expression for surprise or annoyance. Heard it all the time from my Norwegian relatives while growing up. The actor is from WI, so did he sneak it in?

And there's a brief shot of Natasia Demetriou in profile, and she appears to be heavily pregnant, which she apparently confirmed in an interview.

Especially funny: Colin mimicking Lazlo's English riff on word endings; The Dress; Colin's "negative energy gain"; and Nadja's Staten Island look.

Sweet Gizmo is so delighted with his new life that we know he is headed for a fall.

 

[PurpleTentacle]

This show makes me happy. It's consistently the funniest thing on TV. Maybe ever? Sad that this is the final season. I feel they could have gone for ten seasons and a movie.

Nadja really thrives in human office culture. Laszlo's concerns very obviously unfounded and he should really apologise.

I like the guide's and Jerry's dynamic. Finally somebody who shares her ambitions to take over north america. But I don't think we'll see a lot of them, with only this season left. Though maybe that will be the ultimate end of the show, them actually succeeding? I doubt it, but it would be funny.

Will Nandor and Guillermo finally bone and get it out of their systems and/or get together? They can't keep blueballing me till the end, can they? It's certainly complicated after we established that Guillermo isn't suited to be a Vampire, although I still think that was a bit of stretch. We saw again in one of these episodes how very much not effected he is by humans around him being murdered. I think he would have gotten over doing the murdering himself pretty quickly...

Speaking of Nandor, Kayvan Novak shirtless is always a treat.

Funny that the only thing keeping Laszlo from creating life was him being too impatient and abandoning the project at the first sign of problems, but that very much tracks. I wonder if Vampires have some inherent magic, apart from hypnosis, transforming and flying, that they just don't know about. That would explain how that monster, that is most certainly not inspired by the work of Victor Frankenstein, ever came to life in the first place. Because it certainly wasn't the "science" Laszlo was using.

I'm excited for the rest of the season!

[tennisgurl]

This show is so much fun, I'm thrilled that its back but also sad that we're almost done. I respect the show wanting to go out on its own terms, but its so consistently good, I feel like they have a few more seasons in them. I just want more!

I thought that all three episodes were hilarious, although Jerry the Vampire might have been my favorite. Colin Robinson immediately trying to show him the color dress about killed me, as was everyone acting like Jerry had been sleeping for hundreds of years and not since the mid 90s. He knows what a fucking car is! 

Not surprised at all that the vampires don't know what to do without Guillermo around and that he's struggling a bit to adjust to having a regular human life again, its been a very long, very co-dependent relationship. Its really sweet in a weird way how much Nandor The Sort of Nice Guy misses Guillermo, even if he has trouble admitting it. 

Say what you will about Jerry, he's asking some very good questions. Why are the vampires allowing a human camera crew to film them all of the time? Who is going to watch this? What even is this documentary? Its interesting that all three episodes called more attention than usual to the camera crew, it makes me think/hope that there is going to be a huge payoff at the end of the show with the documentary. 

Is the fact that Guillermo's new job mostly operating at night just a slight contrivance to allow the vampires to hang around "helping" Guillermo, or is there more to it? Will we find out that his boss is actually a vampire? 

[Ohiopirate02]

13 hours ago, pasdetrois said:

Early in the first episode, I noticed two things. Colin Robinson exclaimed "Uffda," which is a Scandinavian expression for surprise or annoyance. Heard it all the time from my Norwegian relatives while growing up. The actor is from WI, so did he sneak it in?

 

 

Many people from Wisconsin (also Minnesota) have Scandinavian heritage and Uffda is a part of their lexicon.

[Red Bridey]

I will not be surprised if that finance company is aligned with vampires or some other demonic entities. I figured when Guillermo was recruited by the mail room guy, he was recruited as a potential vampire meal. Or replacing someone who has been a vampire meal. We shall see!

I loved the convo between a memory wiped Guillermo and Nandor, it was so touching.

I am so impressed with the plotting of this show. I love how I never can figure out where the story is going. And I can't wait to see how the conquest of the New World goes. Better than the cola wars, I hope.

[libgirl2]

On 10/24/2024 at 5:15 AM, pasdetrois said:

And there's a brief shot of Natasia Demetriou in profile, and she appears to be heavily pregnant, which she apparently confirmed in an interview.

 

 

I didn't see her confirm it but I was sure she was watching the show. A few times she was hiding behind things. 

[iMonrey]

On 10/21/2024 at 10:45 PM, Galileo908 said:

It was great seeing Baron again! He got healed by Gizmo's frog monster babies weird spit.

It's from their milk. The camera panned over to The Sire milking the frogs. They all had little suction cups on their chests. OMG.

On 10/22/2024 at 9:07 PM, peeayebee said:

I will admit that I didn't get what was going on with the Baron repeating himself until Guillermo said something like, "Oh I see what's happening."

I thought my DVR was glitching!

By far my favorite was the monster. But we didn't see him in the third episode and Laszlo was still working on the experiment, so where did the monster go? 

[ItCouldBeWorse]

On 10/24/2024 at 6:15 AM, pasdetrois said:

And there's a brief shot of Natasia Demetriou in profile, and she appears to be heavily pregnant, which she apparently confirmed in an interview.

https://people.com/how-natasia-demetriou-hid-pregnancy-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-6-8732995

 

[Jordan61]

When Nadja and Laszlo asked Colin Robinson if he remembered what they were fighting about all those years ago and he said, Laszlo said you couldn't get a job because it was too dangerous-ah, I was dying.