is the sort of series that shouldn’t work at all. Based on the film of the same name written by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, the series has become one of TV’s best comedies by taking the admittedly ridiculous conceit of the original and running with it to even greater heights.
In Season 5’s initial episodes, the world of the vampires seems to steadily expand beyond both the walls of their Staten Island residence and the undead community. Andfinds plenty of fresh narrative ground to play in in the human world, inserting our faves in everything from a neighborhood pride parade to the overblown bureaucracy of local city government elections.
But the biggest question hanging over the new season is, of course, what exactly happened to Guillermo . Nandor’s loyal and eternally put-upon familiar finally reached his breaking point at the conclusion of Season 4, deciding his master was never going to follow through on his promises to turn him into a vampire and offering convenience store clerk Derek a bag of cash to do it instead.
, casting him as an audience surrogate, and frequently using Guillen’s deadpan asides and eye-rolls to the camera to undercut the most ridiculous antics of his onscreen costars. As a character, Guillermo has always straddled the two different worlds at the center of the series, a regular human who primarily exists in the increasingly bizarre realm of the supernatural, but whose humanity serves as the emotional linchpin around which the bulk of the series turns.