What We Write in the Shadows
In both Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and the vampire sitcom "What We Do in the Shadows," confessionals allow the uncanny and the mundane to collide.
Two vampires sit before their interviewer. The camera is rolling.
“I was the most handsome man in our village,” the man begins.
His wife gives the camera a knowing look. “His village was very badly affected by leprosy and the plague.”
“That’s true,” he concedes. “And I myself did contract leprosy, but I was quite lucky because it couldn’t be seen. It was only one part of my anatomy—”
“Well, I can see it.”
“Anyway, one night, I was awoken by this horrible clawing at the window, and I thought, ‘Who the hell is that?’ because I live on the third floor.” He holds up three fingers in demonstration.
His wife smiles. This is the story of how Laszlo and Nadja, two of the protagonists on FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, began their romance many centuries ago.
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