What I’m Watching: What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3, Episode 4 “The Casino” (B+)

It’s often agonizing to watch this show and its characters because of their unending stupidity, but that’s obviously part of the appeal, and we have Guillermo to stand in for the audience and shake his head in shame every time they do something where they absolutely should have known better. Nadja thinking she was seeing the real Rat Pack again and trying to repeatedly remind them who she was before sticking them up for cash was one such instance, and somehow all of the other people there didn’t catch on to the fact that she was completely clueless (a needed suspension of disbelief, I understand). Laszlo’s surprise at being able to just get his best bud to give him his credit card without an explanation and, more importantly, without any hypnosis, was entertaining, and I like that it spurred him into action to help him, even if that ended up resulting in a boxer punching the head off his opponent, which was surely bloodier and more fatal than they intended. Colin getting caught up in his “binge-watching” and not noticing that housekeeping vacuumed all their ancestral soil led to quite the international mission for Guillermo, who was able to get into numerous countries on short notice without much trouble. Colin forcing the teller to stay with him as he counted the money was miserable, and he also got Nandor to a very dark place as he contemplated, for the first time, just how small he was in the grand scheme of the universe.