Those who know of What We Do in the Shadows probably think of the 2014 cult hit mockumentary about a brood of oddball vampires wrestling with typical roommate drama like who should do the dishes and how to gobble down human blood without making a mess in the living room. Ten years before that, it was a short film that Jemaine Clement claims was made for about $200.Before that, as Clement and his co-creator Taika Waititi revealed today at New York Comic Con 2018, the idea was born as a stand up comedy routine in which one of them told bad vampire jokes (`I just flew in from Transylvania and boy are my arms tired!`) and the other heckled him, also as a vampire, until they recognized one another as centuries-long rivals. Now, it`s FX`s latest comedy show, and based on the pilot episode--which screened exclusively during NYCC on Sunday--What We Do in the Shadows is perfect for fans.(Disclaimer: The pilot episode screened at NYCC was reportedly unfinished, and this is not a review of the final program.)The new What We Do in the Shadows follows a similar formula to the original. Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Laszlo (Matt Berry) are vampire roommates, this time in New York City`s Staten Island rather than the original`s New Zealand. But their dynamic, and the humor it enables, is similar. When Nandor, who was once a `ferocious` soldier in the Ottoman Empire, calls a flat meeting in the library, he and Laszlo (Berry, giving off similar vibes to Jemaine Clement`s character in the original movie) nearly come to blows over the bad habit of leaving half-drained humans around the house. They bare their teeth and hiss like feral cats before Nadja, Laszlo`s partner and the series` first female vampire, defuses the situation.As any normal roommates would, the three resolve to mark their human prey with their names and dates of consumption from now on to avoid the problem in the future. Nandor adds `buy markers` to the list of chores for his hapless famil ...
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