What We Do in the Shadows
The Campaign
TV Flash files “The Campaign” as hour 44 of 61 in the TV Flash guide — What We Do in the Shadows (2019–2024) on FX, season 5, episode 4, aired 2023-07-27, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E04: listed hour 44 of 61 in the What We Do in the Shadows guide, hour 4 of 10 in season 5. It aired 2023-07-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Pride Parade” (S05E03). Next is “Local News” (S05E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Colin runs for office, Nandor makes a new friend and Nadja reconnects with her roots.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Campaign sit in the What We Do in the Shadows guide?
S05E04 is listed hour 44 of 61 — hour 4 of 10 in season 5, season 5 episode 4.
When did What We Do in the Shadows S05E04 air?
The Campaign aired 2023-07-27 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…