What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Episode 8 Review: Collaboration – Den of Geek UK

Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), his wife and lives-long spiritual mate, usually wrote the lyrics for the duo Nadja & Laszlo. This was probably an improvement over Laszlos verse, which sometimes rhymed words with themselves. Given Nadjas proclivity for candid sexual expression, it is not surprising that most of their tunes are bawdy songs. The tunes are all very familiar, Row, Row, Row Your Boat and For Hes a Jolly Good Fellow, one of which was tamed down from a masturbatory ode and the other a narcissistic anthem, but still a good melody is a good melody. Viewers may see them as their generations Rodgers and Hammerstein or Bacharach and David, but they would be wrong. Nadja & Laszlo are closer to Marty and Bobbi Culp, the middle school music teachers Ana Gasteyer and Will Ferrell played on Saturday Night Live.

Laszlo also plays an impressive array of musical instruments. While its no surprise someone can master so many in even one lifetime, much less the 300 years Laszlo has been tooling around, it is extraordinary how he consistently misnames them, like calling an accordion a chimp-grinders wind piano. Some of their songs havent aged so well, like a Nazi-era Olympics piece which addresses Hitler himself. At one point Nadja sings the lyric Documentary crew, I want to eat you oh so bad. She performs this directly to the documentary crew, which has seen its share of perils. What We Do in the Shadows continues to pick at its own scabs for laughs.

Colin Robinsons (Mark Proksch) offer to get gigs for Nadja & Laszlo can be seen as very subtle commentary on the music industry. All personal managers and agents have a bit of vampire in them. Last week, it was revealed that Elvis Presley was kept alive as a vampire. But it was his manager who was the vampire. Colonel Parker sucked the lifeblood out of his client, and made him his familiar.

Benji, who did time as Nandors familiar until he got too vocal about wanting to be turned into a vampire, is quite a nice old man. Hes not very bright, although that may be because all his memories were burned out until he got rekindled by a brain game app. The vintage photos from the seventies are very funny, if you believe a vampires image can be captured on film. We see Nandor and Benji endorsing a Nixon/Agnew ticket, flashing peace signs, and sporting Conehead heads, all things we associate with 70s vampires. Guillermo (Harvey Guilln) has a wonderful aside, however, breaking to look at the camera crew when Benji says he was high on drugs and talking ragtime when the woman who became his wife found him and saved him.

After his memories come back, Benji wants Nandor to fulfill his promise. He wants to be a vampire. He is still very nostalgic about the closet he used to sleep in and pillow he jerked off in, and Guillermo takes him to a Familiars Mixer to catch up with old friends. Benji remembers Colin Robinson as that Dilbert-looking Guy. At the mixer, former-familiar and newly-turned vampire Celeste (Greta Lee) remembers Guillermo as Elmo. This is a step up from Gizmo, the Muppet name Laszlo calls Nandors familiar, but only because Celeste is a step closer to fulfilling Guillermos dream. He also wants to be a vampire, and would kill for a pull on Celestes blood-vape.

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What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Episode 8 Review: Collaboration - Den of Geek UK

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero