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

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

It’s a wonder that Guillermo has been able to survive this long, with Nandor irresponsibly talking loudly about how his familiar could beat any of the others in the death fights at the night market and then eagerly volunteering him up for some fatal combat. Guillermo did accomplish quite a bit by just standing there and refusing to fight, and the announcer and onlookers were not rooting for any humans to make it out alive. Nandor was annoyed that Guillermo was embarrassing him but fortunately they were able to figure out a way to stage his death so that they could both escape untouched. Though Baby Colin does have talent on stage, his boring personality is threatening to overwhelm that and cause him to forget the words, and Laszlo is making it his number one priority to ensure that he’s at least somewhat better off than the dead corpse that birthed him. Telling him the real versions of stories and how adults make up lies for truths that are either too scary or too boring isn’t likely to ultimately help, since it’s just going to make him less optimistic about the state of the world and eager to drain others’ enthusiasm as well. Nadja may go about things in a roundabout way, but she does know how to keep the people she needs on her side there through just the right amount of attention and bribery. The vampire nightclub may not be a long-running success, but she’s going to try her hardest to keep it going.