The Finale

After a shaky first few episodes "What we Do In The Shadows" has been one of the best sitcoms of recent times. This sixth season, whilst still good, perhaps shows that it's time for the series to end before it's forced into repeating itself.

Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) leaves Nandor's (Kayvan Novak) service and goes to work at Cannon Capital Strategies, a finance company led by Jordan (Tim Heidecker) who has similar traits to Nandor. Both Nandor and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) join the company at similar times, though keep their connections to Guillermo and each other secret. Laszlo (Matt Berry) taking no inspiration from any gothic novels, resurrects a man made of various dead humans sewn together. He quickly tires of his monster though with Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) picking up the slack.

Again, generally I thought this season was good. I enjoyed the cameos particularly from Steve Coogan as Laszlo's long dead father Roderick and from Kevin Pollack as the star of a long running cop show that ends up filming in the area.

I wasn't wild about either the office or the Frankenstein storylines though. Nurturing Laszlo does appear to be a recurrence of a previous plot and office politics has been done in a number of shows. They were fine, but it's well covered ground. It still made me laugh regularly, all of that cast can just make me chuckle on line delivery alone so it's still somewhat said to see the show end, even if I can see that it's probably the right time.

When I started the series, I couldn't have hoped that it was going to end up being as good as it was and I'm sad to see it end, but excited for whatever the cast decide to do next.

It makes sense that a documentary just ends, and it is funny, but I don't know... I think that in the last seasons they relied to heavily on the "it's always the same day" kinda thing (Sunrise, Sunset) which I love but then they stopped doing action and I kinda miss when some epic moments would happen (also, Guillermo changing his mind about being a vampire was also really anti-climatic, him finally turning into a vampire should have been the series finale, or the final season focusing on it), still, the laughter in every episode never stopped happening and another cute moments, I'm really gonna miss this. I hope they make a sequel series or more movies but if this is it, thanks for one of the best shows I've ever seen and loved, I'm sure we'll meet again 💜

I'm gonna go see how I fill this void now, good night everyone :)

It seems that a constant problem for any show-runner is how they end a show. This is no exception.

The normal insanity of WWDITS is lost a little with some attempt at finalising six seasons of brilliant mad-cap writing.

Yes, there's allusions to Cravensworth's Monster and his anatomical detachment, but it's incidental. There's no oomph deserving of the wonderful vampires (and whatshisname) that inhabit their soon to be conquered Staten Island.

I loved this show so much -- I think it's my favourite comedy of all time -- so this was a bit of a let down.

But, that doesn't change the fact that the show -- on the whole -- is brilliant.

I'll miss it.

Well they made it to the end and that's something. And they at least attempted to do something original or clever to get them there, points for that too.

What was clear over this last season is they'd lost their way, and they even acknowledged that as an insider joke in this episode although that didn't really excuse the end result. Knowing you're off course and not fixing it doesn't really make it better.

The writing definitely drifted in the last few seasons. More brutality where there used to be understated charm, more pushing for shock value instead of intelligent comedy.

The best things we're left with from the show are the characters who were always the core of the show, and making them jump through writers 'whim hoops' is what damaged it at the end. The corporate shades hurt some of the characters, even though the set up was promising, it didn't really deliver.

The higher budget sets and staging looked impressive but didn't help the core of the show, the characters.

Laszlo's monster, or more specifically his libido, is causing problems in the vampire house leading to some extreme solutions being planned. Nandor wants to build a lair under the house and become a crime fighter. These issues all become meaningless when the household receives some big news.

The show ends. I want to say sadly but it is ending at the right time.

For five seasons it was brilliant. Most importantly, for five seasons the the quality and freshness of the show did not waiver showing that the writers hadn't run out of ideas.

However, Season 6 did feel a bit stale and didn't quite have the zip of the previous seasons. It's still great but just not in the same league as what came before. A good thing then that it ended as otherwise it would definitely have overstayed its welcome. Kudos to the producers for pulling the plug when they realised that the show had run its course.

This, the finale, is consistent with the standard of S6 with an episode that is hardly a bang but is not a whimper either. There's still some good comedy, some interesting character-based sub-plots and, befitting a finale, a tying up of loose ends and closure to the series.

Farewell.