, FX’s vampire mockumentary from the mind of Jemaine Clement, is still one of TV’s best comedies. Through the first four episodes of the new season for review, the show effortlessly flexes and reframes its scope, tightly following its protagonists on their shared journey.
picks up after a one-year gap. Lazlo is in Staten Island letting the manor fall apart while raising the energy vampire child who burst from the chest of Colin Robinson , who he calls “Boy” in hopes of distinguishing him from his late friend. Lazlo wants him to be a much more interesting man, perhaps forgetting how energy vampires operate .
Meanwhile, despite gaps in his emotional intelligence and general reasoning, Nandor is pursuing romance while showing more appreciation for his vampire hunter-descended familiar, who is again the only reason the whole household doesn’t physically and logistically collapse. The Guide has become a series regular, accompanied by her wraiths as she navigates her own psychology with Lazlo and workplace labor issues with Nadja.
The series continues to include other non-vampiric monsters integrated into hidden alcoves and enclaves in modern society, such as an lawyerly/accountant-likethat Nandor discovers in a lamp among his treasures, and the myriad and sundry bartering mythical creatures at the Night Market.subtly builds out a dark fantasy world intersecting with the main characters’ misadventures with mundanity.
It might have been nice to see the vampires split among their travels—in Europe, the Middle East, and Staten Island—for a brief period, but the show succeeds while reuniting them. And the tools used to tell the stories of the storyline gap between seasons are funny and evocative.