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Thanks to eternal life, vampires never fundamentally change, and yet What We Do in the Shadows’ immortals nonetheless seem to be in a constant state of transformation—a fact most hilariously proven by last season’s running storyline about energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) being resurrected as a weirdo CGI-enhanced child. In the series’ new season, it’s not Colin but human Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) who’s the one mutating into something new—or, at least, striving to. The trouble it causes confirms, once again, that FX’s hit comedy hinges on the push-pull between its protagonists’ desire to evolve and their wholesale inability to be anything other than their clownish selves.
(Warning: Some spoilers ahead.)
At the conclusion of Season 4, Guillermo—the flesh-and-blood “familiar” (i.e., servant) of ancient Iranian creature of the night Nandor (Kayvan Novak)—had finally become fed up with his master’s refusal to make him a vampire, and enlisted his convenience store clerk buddy Derek (Chris Sandiford) to perform the neck-chomping deed.