WHAT TO WATCH: ..., ‘Shadows’ Has New Bite, ..."FX’s hilarious vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows is back for a fifth season."What We Do in the ShadowsFX
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The fifth season of the rollicking vampire comedy picks up some two weeks after Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), the human “familiar” who yearns to be undead, begged his vamp buddy Derek (Chris Sandiford) to turn him. Did it work? Laszlo (Matt Berry) senses something’s off in “Gizmo,” but he, Nandor (Kayvan Novak), and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) still find it too silly to imagine their meek slave could ever rise to their level. Besides, the consequences of a familiar turning to a vampire who’s not his master would be dire indeed. Gulp. While that intrigue swirls, the vamps enjoy an outing to a Staten Island mall, and in the second episode, the guys paint the town red — not in that way — with their human buddy Sean (Anthony Atamanuik), who wonders why they don’t drink like everyone else. Back at home, Nadja discovers a hex could be responsible for her recent streak of bad luck — including the sorry state of her alter-ego dolly.
