How many times can you reanimate a corpse? During an early arc of What We Do in the Shadows Season 6, Lazlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry) discovers he can do it as many times as he likes, provided he doesn’t care about its agonized screams (he doesn’t). Still, it’s kind of astonishing how many times you can bring a mound of flesh to life, only to destroy it again and repeat the cycle.
It’s a fate that could’ve easily befallen FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, the spinoff of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s 2014 vampire mockumentary film. After all, how much comedy can you mine from the premise of a group of eccentric vampire roommates in Staten Island? The miracle of What We Do in the Shadows is that the answer has been a lot.
