\tSPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This post contains spoilers from Season 6, Episode 11 of \u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows,\u201d \u201cThe Finale,\u201d which premiered Monday, Dec. 16 on FX.<\/p>\n
\tThe Staten Island vampires of \u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows\u201d have closed their coffins for good.<\/p>\n
\tThe final episode of Season 6 was the series finale of the FX comedy, which was originally a spinoff of the 2014 mockumentary written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Like so many irreverent sitcoms, it ended without many lessons learned and the promise of an eternity of hijinks to come, even after the cameras are turned off. <\/p>\n
\tThe episode begins with Guillermo (Harvey Guill\u00e9n), the human familiar of the house, lamenting that the documentary team has shot enough footage and won\u2019t need to visit the vampires\u2019 home anymore. While the eternal bloodsuckers \u2014\u00a0Guillermo\u2019s master Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) and The Guide (Kristen Schaal) \u2014 couldn\u2019t care less that filming was coming to a close, Guillermo considers that it might be time for him to move on from serving Nandor and keeping the house clean for no reward. Although it doesn\u2019t focus on it as much as the American \u201cOffice,\u201d it\u2019s interesting to see a mockumentary series grapple with the age-old question of \u201cWhat exactly are they going to do with all of this footage?\u201d \t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \tAmazingly, it\u2019s revealed to Guillermo that this documentary isn\u2019t even the first shot in the house:\u00a0Cut to a clip from the unreleased 1958 series \u201cVampires,\u201d apparently shot by legendary duo The Maysles Brothers, in which the vampires are having the same conversation about hygiene they had minutes earlier. Ultimately, that docuseries was shelved because, per Colin Robinson, \u201cThey said, \u2018It\u2019s just a bunch of boring people doing the same old shit day after day, nothing changes, no one ever grows, it\u2019s pointless, yada yada.’\u201d It\u2019s impossible to watch that self-deprecating scene and not think of the much-maligned \u201cSeinfeld\u201d finale, where the gang is left locked up, having the same old argument about button placement on a shirt they had in the pilot, rotting away in a cell in sitcom hell. Ultimately, the vampires\u2019 eternal lives will have them bickering about the same old things until the end of time. \t<\/p>\n
\tOne of the most unique elements of the episode happens when Nadja breaks the fourth wall to hypnotize the audience to help them watch the ending they find most satisfying. We then cut to an amusing, cinematically-shot parody of the end of \u201cThe Usual Suspects,\u201d in which Schaal plays a detective and Proksch takes on \u201cVerbal\u201d Kint, Kevin Spacey\u2019s character who builds a complex web of deception by making up fake names from objects around the room. <\/p>\n
\tYet the audience soon comes back to reality to spend a few more scenes with the housemates. In the end, Guillermo announces on camera that he\u2019s going to leave the house to find himself, and Nandor allows him to call him by his name instead of \u201cmaster.\u201d Yet Guillermo goes back to see Nandor again seconds after the film crew begins to strike the set, saying he only \u201cwanted to give the documentary an ending\u201d and \u201cjust because we don\u2019t work together doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t be friends.\u201d <\/p>\n
\tFor a tart cherry on top during the credits, the vampires and Guillermo watch the first episode of the doc. \u201cSo this is a rough cut, right? You\u2019re open to notes?\u201d asks Colin Robinson, as the housemates leave in boredom, with Guillermo the only one engaged with the footage. It\u2019s self-depreciation at its finest.<\/p>\n
\tIn a television landscape saturated with complex storylines, life-changing character development and serialized moments, \u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows\u201d both existed and ended as a proudly silly and irreverent hang-out comedy. Jackie Daytona would certainly raise a glass in celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This post contains spoilers from Season 6, Episode 11 of \u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows,\u201d \u201cThe Finale,\u201d which premiered Monday, Dec. 16 on FX. The Staten Island vampires of \u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows\u201d have closed their coffins for good. The final episode of Season 6 was the series finale of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}