Review: What We Do in the Shadows, “The Promotion” | Season 6, Episode 10
The series’ penultimate episode wraps up the Cannon Capital Strategies storyline and sets up the finale
One of the big reasons why “creatures of the night interact with the human world” has been a reliable source of comedy across all six seasons of What We Do in the Shadows is that those scenes so savagely spoof how mundane and predictable we all are. Heck, even Cravensworth’s Monster can pass as “normal,” just by mastering the meaningless chit-chat that defines so much of our daily existence. The Monster knows Latin, is a tireless dance machine, and can (mostly) recite a long string of digits in pi. But his most essential skill is that when bunch of humans grouse at him about the hassle of having kids, the Monster is able to grunt back, to approving chuckles, “What… am… I… made… of… money?”
On the other hand, as Nandor and Nadja in particular have learned across the centuries, humans can mess with a murderous fiend’s self-esteem just as easily as they can pump it up. In this week’s episode, when the pressure of making Laszlo proud becomes too overwhelming at a Cannon C…