What We Do within the Shadows stars Matt Berry, Mark Prokesh, Kristen Schaal, Kayvan Novak (by way of Zoom), govt producer and showrunner Paul Sims, and director Kay Newacheck appeared in Corridor H at San Diego Comedian-Con on Thursday to preview (and rejoice) the sixth and ultimate season of the Emmy-nominated FX comedy.
Video clips: Previous to the panel, FX aired the complete first episode of season six, which launched Michael Patrick O’Brien (“Saturday Night time Stay”) as Jerry. Who’s Jerry, you ask? He’s the previous roommate of Nandor (Novak), Laszlo (Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Prokesh) , all of them fondly bear in mind him as “the vampire’s vampire”—till they notice they’ve all forgotten.
Jerry’s return throws everybody into an existential disaster as he upends the vampires’ relationships by reminding them of who they as soon as have been. In the meantime, we study the place Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) has been residing since breaking away from the vampires and changing into Nando’s acquainted, and the vampires start to query why they agreed to let a human movie crew observe them for thus lengthy.
What we realized: Sims stated that after they realized that season six could be the sequence finale, they determined to desert most of the tropes that the present had adopted throughout its dash.
“We’re simply attempting to make a very enjoyable season that is not too sentimental and would not attempt to tie too many threads collectively,” he stated, earlier than instantly backtracking. “I imply, for tremendous followers such as you, all of the threads are going to be tied up.”
Sims additionally teased that the season will function a number of main visitor appearances from “individuals we love and assume are tremendous humorous” — together with casting O’Brien as Jerry.
Much like the way in which the documentary crew turned extra built-in into the present throughout The Workplace’s ultimate season, Newacek additionally teased that the documentary facet of the present “actually opened up in a really meta method in direction of the tip of the season.” “
He added, “I’ll say that at one level in my time directing the present, I did play a director on the present, and it was probably the most meta factor I’ve ever been part of. So guys, keep tuned. It will be Get loopy and peculiar.
Funniest second: Unable to attend in individual, Novak appeared on the panel by way of Zoom, enjoying the function of Nandor the Relentless, a vampire-toothed man with a drawing of Nandor within the background. Portrait of Nandor. When requested if Guillermo would ever kind out his emotions for Nandor, Novak’s Nandor defined that Guillermo continues to be residing with him, with the identical feelings one would count on within the present of pleasant vulgarity.
“I needed to decrease my voice as a result of Guillermo was within the subsequent room, masturbating on his pillow,” he stated, then acted as if Guillermo had simply stepped off digicam. “What? No, I am not speaking about you. Shut the fuck up!”
