What We Do in the Shadows
Pilot
TV Flash files “Pilot” as a desk essential hour — What We Do in the Shadows (2019–2024) on FX, season 1, episode 1, aired 2019-03-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 61 in the What We Do in the Shadows guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2019-03-27 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “City Council” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pilot”. The pilot as roommate contract: Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja, and poor Guillermo, mockumentary vampires already treating the running gag as blood sport.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The vampires prepare for a visit from Baron Afanas from the Old World, and Guillermo assumes that his 10th anniversary celebration as a familiar is part of the party. Nadja believes that a modern man is the incarnation of her decapitated lover Gregor.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pilot sit in the What We Do in the Shadows guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 61 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did What We Do in the Shadows S01E01 air?
Pilot aired 2019-03-27 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need the Taika Waititi film first?
Helpful for the mockumentary vampire joke, not required. Clement's series is Staten Island roommates — Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja, Guillermo, Colin — as the actual show.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Mockumentary vampires as roommates, and the running gag as blood sport. Nandor, Laszlo, Nadja, and poor Guillermo turn Staten Island immortality into the peak ensemble comedy of the cable-streaming hybrid years. Watch for improv-adjacent timing that never winks itself to death, and for a finale that knew when the coffin lid should close.
The silhouette is immortality as roommate couture: Kayvan Novak's Nandor, Matt Berry's Laszlo, Natasia Demetriou's Nadja, Harvey Guillén's poor Guillermo, Mark Proksch's Colin Robinson — Staten Island residence, documentary crew as the fifth roommate, running gag as blood sport. Jemaine Clement's FX mockumentary, 2019–2024, sixty-one episodes, six seasons, made the peak ensemble comedy of the cable-streaming hybrid years. Roommate immortality, improv-adjacent timing that never winks itself to death. A finale that…
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- Kayvan Novak as Nandor
Kayvan Novak's Nandor turned What We Do in the Shadows into Staten Island immortality as roommate farce — mockumentary vampires, running gag as blood sport, improv-adjacent timing that refuses to wink itself to death. TV Flash tracks him…
- Matt Berry as Laszlo
Matt Berry roared the basement as Laszlo on What We Do in the Shadows — mockumentary vampires as roommates, running gag as blood sport, Staten Island immortality as peak ensemble comedy of the cable-streaming hybrid years. Improv-adjacent…
- Natasia Demetriou as Nadja
Natasia Demetriou’s Nadja turned Staten Island immortality into blood-sport banter on What We Do in the Shadows — 2020s mockumentary vampires as roommates, Nandor, Laszlo, poor Guillermo, peak ensemble comedy of the cable-streaming hybrid…
- Harvey Guillén as Guillermo
Harvey Guillén's Guillermo is the familiar who makes What We Do in the Shadows a workplace — mockumentary vampires as roommates, Nandor and Laszlo and Nadja, Staten Island immortality as peak ensemble comedy. Running gag as blood sport.…
- Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson
Mark Proksch drained the room as Colin Robinson on What We Do in the Shadows — mockumentary vampires as roommates, running gag as blood sport, Staten Island immortality as peak ensemble comedy of the cable-streaming hybrid years. The…