It’s kind of fantastical that Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s “What We Do in the Shadows” has held up as long as it has. It sure seemed like all the gory laughs possible from a quite specific, vampire mockumentary concept were drained by the movie that started the franchise in 2014.
A decade later, though, we’re at the sixth and final season of FX’s series adaptation. If the five previous runs are any indication, this kind of comedy can never die.
Things may be getting a bit anemic, though. The network only provided critics with the first three of Season 6’s 10 episodes, and while they scare up gasps and absurdity with rewarding regularity, nothing yet reaches the brilliant heights of Season 4’s meta reality TV satire “Go Flip Yourself” or the horny hilarity of the “Pride Parade” episode from last year.