Taika Waititi doesn’t necessarily think there needed to be six seasons of What We Do in the Shadows.
Waititi co-directed the 2014 New Zeeland comedy What We Do in the Shadows alongside Jemaine Clement. Clement and Waititi both played characters in the movie alongside Jonathan Brugh and Cori Gonzalez-Macuer.
What We Do in the Shadows was then turned into a mockumentary television series that premiered on FX in 2019. The series is created by Clement, while Waititi serves as an executive producer. Waititi also directed a number of episodes in the series, which will conclude its sixth and final season later this month, and has cameoed in several episodes.
What did Taika Waititi say about What We Do in the Shadows?
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Waititi said that he never thought the series would last for six seasons and explained why he feels it’s now gone on “for far too long.”
“This went on for far too long, but I’m proud of it,” he said. “I thought that the movie, when we were making the movie, I said to Jemaine, ‘This feels like this is like a five-minute idea that we’re stretching out into a movie.’ Next thing, we made six seasons of the same idea.”
Waititi did praise the cast of the What We Do in the Shadows television series, which includes Kayvan Novak as Nandor the Relentless, Matt Berry as Laszlo Cravensworth, Natasia Demetriou as Nadja, Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz, and Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson.
“My favorite memory was not having to put vampire teeth in, and making other people do it,” he said. “That was probably my favorite thing. And also, just these guys were possibly funnier than us.”
The penultimate episode of What We Do in the Shadows Season 6 airs tonight, December 10, 2024, before the finale then arrives on December 16, 2024.
