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COMEDY WITH A BITE

In the pilot episode of What We Do in the Shadows—an FX comedy that centers on a vampire clan living in 21st-century Staten Island—the characters discuss the arrival of a vampiric royal named Baron Afanas (Doug Jones) to their shared home.

“A few hundred years ago, we enjoyed a very intense, very long sexual affair. It was very wild, lots of acrobatic stuff,” Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) confides to a (faux) documentary crew chronicling the lives of the immortal nightcrawlers.

“A while back, the baron and I enjoyed a very intense sex affair. Very animalistic. Acrobatic stuff, you might say,” echoes her husband, Laszlo (Matt

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