All episodes Season 2 S02E01 2020-04-15 30 min 2020s FX

What We Do in the Shadows

Resurrection

TV Flash files “Resurrection” as a desk essential hour — What We Do in the Shadows (2019–2024) on FX, season 2, episode 1, aired 2020-04-15, 30 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 11 of 61 in the What We Do in the Shadows guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 2020-04-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Ancestry” (S01E10). Next is “Ghosts” (S02E02).

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Resurrection”. Resurrection as season-two launch: the dead joking their way back, still Staten Island, still the documentary crew as the fifth roommate.

What We Do in the Shadows — Resurrection (S02E01)

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Nadja and Laszlo's new familiar poses problems for an increasingly anxious Guillermo, and the vampires enlist the services of a local necromancer.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Resurrection sit in the What We Do in the Shadows guide?

S02E01 is listed hour 11 of 61 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.

When did What We Do in the Shadows S02E01 air?

Resurrection aired 2020-04-15 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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