It’s time for more undead shenanigans with What We Do in the Shadows S3

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  Human "familiar" Guillermo (Harvey Guillen) wants nothing more than to be a vampire someday. [credit: YouTube/FX ]

It's no secret that several Ars staffers are big fans of What We Do in the Shadows, FX's Emmy-nominated supernatural comedy series; S2 even made our year's best TV list last year. FX just dropped the official trailer for the eagerly awaited third season. Even better, the network has given the show an early S4 renewal, so we'll be getting plenty more undead shenanigans from our favorite band of bumbling bloodsuckers.

(Some spoilers for first two seasons below.)

As I've written previously, Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement wrote, directed, and starred in the original 2014 horror-comedy, playing vampire roommates Vladislav (Clement) and Viago (Waititi) in Wellington, New Zealand. Given their nocturnal nature, they and their vampire friends haven't adapted to modern life particularly well, and their mishaps as they struggle to navigate mundane trivialities in the 21st century are the source of much of the film's deadpan humor.

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