'What We Do in the Shadows' is again for Season 4, and Colin Robinson's untimely Season 3 death has a weird way of fitting into the story.
Nailing a horror comedy is now not a very easy task, but go away it as much as Taika Waititi (Our Flag Means Death) and Jemaine Clement (Moana) to create a bloody masterpiece in 2014. Their ridiculous vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows is a masterclass in taste and camp, and it's considered one of the most quotable movies in fresh years. "Werewolves not swearwolves" and "Shut up, Nick! You're not Twilight," are just a few tidbits of hilarity sprinkled during the film.
With a deserved Rotten Tomatoes score of 96 percent, fanatics were able to take a bite out of any other helping of What We Do in the Shadows. In 2019, FX gave the kids what they wanted, as the cult favourite horror comedy used to be adapted into a comedy series. From author Jemaine Clement, the adaptation of the identical name follows a new set of vamps residing in Staten Island, N.Y. — which is hilarious in and of itself.
The vampires include Ottoman Empire warrior Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), the British Laszlo (Matt Berry) and his sultry sex pot partner Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and insufferable but hilarious energy vampire/day-walker Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch). There's additionally Nandor's trusty acquainted, Guillermo (Harvey Guillen), who's wonderfully awkward. But energy-sucking Colin saw a sophisticated death close to the end of Season 3. What does this mean for his Season 4 persona?
How Did Colin Robinson Become a man-baby in 'What We Do in the Shadows'?
We know, that's reasonably the query. Well, during the penultimate episode in Season 3 — aptly titled “A Farewell" — Colin celebrated his 100th birthday, only to suddenly die. As sad as it is when a series kills off a beloved regular character (no matter how unbearably mundane that character may be), the mourning didn't last that long.
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a bizarre thing crawled out of Colin's dead body. As you do. This creature looks like a baby with Colin's head screwed on it. So Colin is sort of dead, but with death came new life.
Is Colin Robinson immortal in 'What We Do in the Shadows'?
Colin Robinson isn't exactly immortal, as Laszlo detailed that energy vampires can only live up to a century, which is why Colin died on his 100th birthday. So while actor Mark Proksch (Decker) is very much still a regular in What We Do in the Shadows, it's no longer as the Colin we all knew and loved. He now lives as some unsettling being that Laszlo calls "Boy." Season 4 — which premiered on July 12, 2022 — is going to be weird, y'all.
Even Mark Proksch was freaked out by his new man-baby character.
Mark Proksch told Vanity Fair he was "disturbed, obviously" by his new Franken-baby character. “It was very off-putting for me, as has been watching myself in some of these rough cuts of Season 4. I don’t know if people understand how creepy it’s going to look.”
He found out about Colin's initial "death" during a table read, which was for sure a shocking moment.
"We have been doing the desk reads over Zoom, and [showrunner] Paul Simms known as me and said, 'Obviously, you’re now not useless—you’re going to come back again as a child.' At first, whilst you listen you’re going to be a youngster, you straight away turn into terrified, because so many characters have long past off the rails on displays when they try to do one thing this large. But I had confidence in Paul and the writers, and if any individual may just pull off a story like this, it would be them. So the anxiousness and worry quickly went away."
If seasoned comedy star Mark Proksch has faith in the idea, then so do we.
Season 4 episodes of What We do in the Shadows air Tuesdays 10 p.m. EST on FX and can be streamed on Hulu the subsequent day.
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