What We Do in the Shadows, Season 4

Available on Disney+

WWDITS has long been shaping into a modern-day comedy classic, though this latest season does little to add to its legacy.

While there is still plenty of laughs to be had at the expense of the Staten Island dwelling vampires at its core, the fourth instalment of this small-screen adaptation does little to progress the arc of its central characters.

The hedonistic Laszlo, played by the ever-delightful Matt Berry, is still as sexually compromised as he’s always been, and his spouse Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) foregoes the biggest development in her character to date in favour of opening a vampire nightclub that only ever serves as a side plot to the show’s main goings-on.

Nandor (Kayvan Novak) spends most of this season looking for a wife and while this undoubtedly throws up some laughs, it’s not really anything we haven’t seen from him before. His long-suffering familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) is even more muted, doing very little up until a climatic and promising finale.

Perhaps the most surprising character development is that of the deceased Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), who spends most of the show as a toddler that crawled out of his cavity and has an unusual penchant for musicals. If that sounds absurd, it’s because WWDITS is a completely absurdist show and that, along with its leading cast, is unquestionably its USP.

Even when this series feels familiar, there are still some stellar episodes to enjoy – none more so than a DIY caper that underpins the showrunner’s ability to effortlessly toy with multiple televisual genres. This ultimately makes the show worthwhile and goes a long way to explaining why it has already been commissioned for another two seasons.