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The Two Nandors
The meeting between What We Do in the Shadows’s loneliest vampire and his ghost exposes the fragile bonds between heritage, language, and identity.
Maintaining a connection through language to where you’re from originally(without all the xenophobia that normally comes with that question) is a uniquely immigrant experience, explored in films like Minari, The Namesake, and Tigertail and TV series such as Fresh Off the Boat, We Are Lady Parts, Pachinko, and Little America. That synchronicity allows the actors to cheekily dig into hundreds of years of tropes and stereotypes about their cultures (with the ludicrously affected accents and vocal patterns to match) and means WWDITS can find creative comparisons between the undead experience and those of exodus and diaspora. Nandor so craves love and friendship that in the seasons to come, he joins a wellness cult and willingly pulls out his fangs to remain part of that community, commands a genie to bring his 37 wives back from the dead, and regularly defies vampiric tribalism to defend Guillermo despite the familiar’s Van Helsing heritage.
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