Pilot2019-03-27
What We Do in the Shadows' FX series premiere transplants Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's mockumentary vampire format from New Zealand to Staten Island. The American adaptation establishes its register immediately - the Staten Island housemateship of four ancient vampires being documented by a camera crew - and proves that the premise is more elastic than its feature film origin suggested. Kayvan Novak's Nandor the Relentless and Matt Berry's Laszlo are fully formed comic instruments in the pilot.
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