This post contains spoilers for the series finale of What We Do in the Shadows, which is now On Demand from FX and will begin streaming on Hulu tomorrow.
“Things end. And it hurts!”
This is Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) early in the series finale of What We Do in the Shadows, trying and failing to bring Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén) out of his grief from learning that the documentary crew that has been filming Nandor and his vampire housemates for years is packing up and going home.
Choosing to conclude the ribald supernatural comedy with the film crew moving away makes sense on a few levels. First, as Nandor acknowledges later in the episode, Shadows already had two different thematically perfect potential endings in previous seasons: either Guillermo finally achieving his dream of becoming a vampire, or Guillermo realizing that he would…
