THE LAST SEASON OF WHAT WE Do In The Shadows was a carnival of the bizarre: vampire nightclubbing, supernatural night markets, home renovation and energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch’s) bizarre cycle of regeneration from Baby Colin back to his beige, adult self. But perhaps the craziest thing yet opens the fifth season: Nandor (Kayvan Novak’s) long-suffering human familiar, Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén), getting the spotlight.
The last we saw Guillermo, he was so fed up at being eternally fang-blocked bythe season premiere picks up the story two weeks later. “The big question is: What’s happened with Guillermo?” she teases. “Is he or isn’t he [a vampire]? And how is that potentially going to play out and impact the house and the dynamics?”