(It’s actually a Super Bowl party, but the vampires refuse to listen to Guillermo’s clarification.) “You are all such strong, beautiful, vicious, vibrant women,” Nadja marvels at the wives huddled in the kitchen. What We Do in the Shadows settles back into its familiar rhythms by the third episode, when the bloodsuckers attend a Superb Owl party at the house next door. It’s the most we learn about the vampires in a while - and might mean a new long-term resident in the house. (Hilariously, most of the vampires profess that they don’t believe in poltergeists until they’re confronted with incontrovertible proof.) In the second episode (the best of this batch), Nandor, Laszlo and Nadja summon the wraith versions of themselves to see if they have any unfinished business they can help wrap up. After giving us its version of the rivalry between vamps and werewolves last year, the sophomore season broaches zombies, Bloody Mary and, most interestingly, ghosts. Season two also expands the What We Do in the Shadows world in a sillier, if just as genre-savvy, way: by introducing bloodsuckers’ relationships to other supernatural beings.
Even by the standards of the undead, it’s pretty bleak.
But in a short period of time, Nandor and company catastrophically, irretrievably and unnecessarily screw up the lives of a pair of individuals out of minor convenience. Killing people is at least a matter of survival for vampires. Perhaps most unexpectedly, Guillermo gains something of a conscience, as he sees the havoc his masters are able to wreak from the vampire hunters’ point of view.
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