What We Do in the Shadows season 4 goes all in on a vampire nightclub

polygon.com:

Season 3 of What We Do in the Shadowsended with a tantalizing cliffhanger. Of all the things that could have happened, Laszlo (Matt Berry) pushing Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) into a coffin bound for London with nothing but Oreos and Pedialyte was something that nobody saw coming.

It was an act that caused nearly every member of our main cast to be suddenly isolated from one another, right on the precipice of taking on a new challenge. Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and an unwilling Guillermo were shipped off to London, Nandor (Kayvan Novak) set off on a solo trip to find himself, and Laszlo opted to stay alone at the house to take care of Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), who had recently been reborn as a baby.

The finale left fans screaming and shaking in its wake, and there was speculation aplenty about how the following season might resolve all of these individual storylines. Season 4, however, neatly sidesteps all the would-be theories by opening on a time skip that sees Nadja, Guillermo, and Nandor all returning to the now-dilapidated house after a year away.

How you feel about this time skip probably depends on how invested you were in the premise that the season 3 finale set up. Personally, as someone who spent many a frenzied hour discussing what might happen in season 4, it was a bit of a disappointment. The characters of What We Do in the Shadowsfelt more clearly defined and comfortable in their roles than ever in the third season. It would have been interesting for the show to probe into how this codependent mass of vampires (and one human) would fare when out of their element and left to their own devices. Circumventing that undercuts the emotional weight of the season 3 finale; there’s little payoff to the turmoil