Worth Watching: Vampires Back in the 'Shadows,' ...What We Do in the Shadows (10/9c, FX): Time to get familiar again with the funniest TV vampires since Grandpa Munster, in FX's adaptation of the cult movie, now in its second season of supernatural hilarity. The hapless Staten Island vamps are under siege by assassins from the Vampire Council, but only Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), the underappreciated "familiar" – i.e., servant/would-be vampire in training — is aware of the threat, keeping his dim-witted master Nandor (Kayvan Novak) and married ghouls Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Laszlo (Matt Berry) in the dark. Adding to poor Guillermo's woes: an arrogant new familiar (Haley Joel Osment) who does none of the work but seeks all of the credit. In the second episode (10:30/9:30c), Nadja conducts a séance to rid their rotting mansion of ghosts, but only makes matters worse by conjuring new and familiar spirits, all needing to tend to unfinished business before they can move on. Not since
Dark Shadows have I enjoyed the company of the undead more.
And again a reference to DS - but I suppose that's natural given 1) the subject of this show, and 2) Matt Roush is a huge DS fan.
