Director: Various
First aired: 2022
Contains spoilers
First aired: 2022
Contains spoilers
The fourth season of What We Do carries directly on from the events at the end of Season 3 – if you have not watched that season yet then this review will absolutely spoil season 3 and I suggest you watch it before reading. My reviews of the other seasons can be read on the following pages: Season 1, Season 2 & Season 3.
The end of Season 3 was all change for the vampire housemates living on Staten Island. Energy Vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) reached his 100th birthday and died – a fate that befalls energy vampires, it seems. A depressed Nandor (Kayvan Novak) decides to leave to see the world and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) is promoted by the Vampiric Council and given a position in England. Laszlo (Matt Berry, Snow White and the Huntsman) is meant to travel with her but in the last minute he bundles Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) into the shipping crate – meaning he misses his rendezvous with Nandor – and returns to the house, as he has found a baby that has crawled out of Colin’s chest (and has Colin’s face).
Any thought of how the show would deal with the disparate locations is soon lost as the season starts a year on and the housemates have all returned home – to a house that has fallen to wrack and ruin under the stewardship of Laszlo (the laziest vampire in the world, according to Nandor). Colin Robinson is now a toddler. This season belongs mostly to Colin and to Nadja – though all the housemates get their moments. Nandor discovers he is in possession of a Djinn (Anoop Desai) lamp, for instance, and starts using wishes to set himself up for a wedding (starting by resurrecting his human brides to see who would be best to marry again).
Nadja, frustrated by not being listened to in England – especially about starting a vampire nightclub – converts the Staten Island vampiric council chambers into a nightclub and, with the help of the Guide (Kristen Schaal, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant) and a workforce of wraiths, runs said club to various levels of success. The storyline proved the funniest and Nadja was bob on through the series. Intertwined through this is Colin Robinson becoming a child performer – apparently vampires love child performances for no explainable reason – under the tutelage of his guardian/manager Laszlo.
The Robinson storyline was fun but, more, it offered an opportunity for Mark Proksch to extend his range as the energy vampire goes through growth spurts and displays different temperaments to the energy vampire we’re familiar with. There was also scope for celebrity cameos such as Sofia Coppola, Thomas Mars and Jim Jarmusch as themselves. The issue the series is, thus far, avoiding is falling into laziness. Sometimes, as a comedy show goes on, I find that the writers fall back on gags and catchphrases that have worked previously. Some of that is unavoidable, of course, but some is lazy and just lowers the quality. WWDitS, thus far, is managing to keep itself fresh whilst keeping the characters front and centre. 7 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
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| Nandor's holiday snap |
The end of Season 3 was all change for the vampire housemates living on Staten Island. Energy Vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) reached his 100th birthday and died – a fate that befalls energy vampires, it seems. A depressed Nandor (Kayvan Novak) decides to leave to see the world and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) is promoted by the Vampiric Council and given a position in England. Laszlo (Matt Berry, Snow White and the Huntsman) is meant to travel with her but in the last minute he bundles Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) into the shipping crate – meaning he misses his rendezvous with Nandor – and returns to the house, as he has found a baby that has crawled out of Colin’s chest (and has Colin’s face).
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| the guide, Nadja and Laszlo |
Any thought of how the show would deal with the disparate locations is soon lost as the season starts a year on and the housemates have all returned home – to a house that has fallen to wrack and ruin under the stewardship of Laszlo (the laziest vampire in the world, according to Nandor). Colin Robinson is now a toddler. This season belongs mostly to Colin and to Nadja – though all the housemates get their moments. Nandor discovers he is in possession of a Djinn (Anoop Desai) lamp, for instance, and starts using wishes to set himself up for a wedding (starting by resurrecting his human brides to see who would be best to marry again).
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| Colin the child performer |
Nadja, frustrated by not being listened to in England – especially about starting a vampire nightclub – converts the Staten Island vampiric council chambers into a nightclub and, with the help of the Guide (Kristen Schaal, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant) and a workforce of wraiths, runs said club to various levels of success. The storyline proved the funniest and Nadja was bob on through the series. Intertwined through this is Colin Robinson becoming a child performer – apparently vampires love child performances for no explainable reason – under the tutelage of his guardian/manager Laszlo.
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| Matt Berry as Laszlo |
The Robinson storyline was fun but, more, it offered an opportunity for Mark Proksch to extend his range as the energy vampire goes through growth spurts and displays different temperaments to the energy vampire we’re familiar with. There was also scope for celebrity cameos such as Sofia Coppola, Thomas Mars and Jim Jarmusch as themselves. The issue the series is, thus far, avoiding is falling into laziness. Sometimes, as a comedy show goes on, I find that the writers fall back on gags and catchphrases that have worked previously. Some of that is unavoidable, of course, but some is lazy and just lowers the quality. WWDitS, thus far, is managing to keep itself fresh whilst keeping the characters front and centre. 7 out of 10.
The imdb page is here.
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