Review: What We Do In The Shadows, "Private School" | Season 4, Episode 5
Review: What We Do In The Shadows, "Private School" | Season 4, Episode 5
The vampires interact with the human world…which is always comedy gold
There was some hubbub on TV Twitter last week about “bottle episodes,” after a Vanity Fair review of the Nebraska-centered Better Call Saul episode “Nippy” came right up to the brink of applying that term to an hour of TV shot in multiple locations, at a budget at least equal to or perhaps even surpassing a typical BCS episode — which, by definition, would take the “bottle” off the table. What the author really meant is that “Nippy” is a “standalone” episode, with an unusual setting and story. But ever since casual television fans, thanks in large part to Community, learned about the existence of bottle episodes, there seems to be some strange rush to tout new examples. (Case in point: The Ringer’s 2020 list of Best Bottle Episodes, which includes hours of TV that don’t really belong.)
So let me absolutely clear: This week’s What We Do in the Shadows, “Private School,” is not a bottle episode. In addition to scenes set in the Vampire Residence, it has scenes at Nadja’s club, …