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What We Do in the Shadows Season-Premiere Recap: Mama’s Go-Go Juice


We begin saying good-bye to our beloved vampires by introducing a new roommate, who reminds the gang they were supposed to conquer the world.

Neither of them is a functional “human,” as demonstrated in a funny sequence in the Cannon Capital Strategies break room where Nadja pours coffee down a glass wall, and Nandor uses an entire roll of paper towels to lightly dab at the puddle. Yes, he can be a lazy bastard — excuse me, a scholar — who can pass years’ worth of time studying the collected works of Guccione and Flynt (founders of pornography magazines Penthouse and Hustler, for our younger readers). • Mike O’Brien, who guest stars in season opener “The Return of Jerry,” has experience doing comedy in tight spaces: His YouTube series 7 Minutes in Heaven, in which he interviewed comedians in closets, ran off and on throughout the 2010s.

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