What We Do in the Shadows will return for its sixth and final season this October 21—and it sounds like FX’s hit vampire comedy is going to end on a very high note.
According to showrunner Paul Simms, speaking to Entertainment Weekly, “We had a lot of conversations about how we wanted to handle it, and the main thing that we all agreed on was that we did not want to do a ‘very special,’ serious final season. We just concentrated on being funny. I finished editing three of the episodes and I think it’s one of our best seasons yet. But who wouldn’t say that in a conversation like this?”
According to an FX press release, “After a very brief stint as a full-blown vampire, Guillermo is re-evaluating his life. Who is he if not a familiar who will do anything to please his Master in hopes of one day being turned into a vampire? Meanwhile, the vampires are reevaluating, too. When their former roommate reappears after a 50-year nap, they realize how little they’ve done in half a century—not one goal accomplished, not one dream pursued, not one part of the New World conquered (except for their street and part of Ashley Street).
In the sixth and final season of the Emmy-nominated comedy, Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, Colin, and Guillermo will enter the workforce, visit New Hampshire, go to a human dinner party, fête the Baron, and conjure a demon—all while trying to find their place and their purpose in this crazy, mixed-up world.”
The workforce, you say? Apparently, Guillermo moves out of the mansion and enters the workforce by getting an office job, only to be followed by Nadja and Nandor. As Simms reveals in the EW piece, “Nadja’s always had a wish of being out among the humans more and getting to know their human ways. And in ‘helping’ Guillermo out at his new job in a regular workplace, she sort of is living her Working Girl fantasies of working in an office and dressing how she imagines a human in an office does, and making the kind of small talk she imagines that humans do.”
Another episode will see Nandor star in what sounds like his own parody of John Boorman’s Deliverance. According to Simms, “We have two episodes that are homages to our favorite movies from the 1970s, and I won’t say what one of them is, but Nandor disappears and goes basically up a river and is causing trouble. The vampires are sent on a mission to go retrieve him before he can create more problems for the vampire establishment. And I’ll leave it at that.”
Further episodes will see Laszlo hypnotize his housemates to become his personal slaves, while another is said to focus on Colin building his own friend/familiar. Simms also teases an appearance from Laszlo’s ghostly father, who will be played by a currently undisclosed actor. “In past seasons we focus so much on people who’ve played vampires before. This season, our main goal was to use our favorite, funniest people that for five years we’ve wanted to use,” Simms explains. “One such performer will play Laszlo’s father, or rather the ghost of Laszlo’s father. It’s one of our favorite guest stars of all time.”
Finally, “Nandermo” shippers have been promised some closure before the series’ ends. As Simms states, “To me, Nandermo has been happening for six seasons. The love they have is so deep and powerful. It doesn’t necessarily need to be consummated in a pornographic scene that some people on the internet seem to wish for.”
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for some exclusive photos of the gang before their final season kicks off, appropriately enough, at the height of spooky season: October 21 on FX.
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