What We Do in the Shadows‘ Most Mysterious Characters Will Emerge in Season 6

Over the past 5 seasons, we’ve learned a batch astir What We Do successful the Shadows‘ hilariously dysfunctional vampire roommates, arsenic good arsenic the almost-vampire Guillermo. But arsenic the FX amusement moves into its sixth and last season, it’s yet clip to larn much astir the astir important Shadows characters we’ve ne'er really seen: the quality camera unit that documents their each move.

At San Diego Comic-Con’s What We Do successful the Shadows panel, fans got a sneak peek astatine the play six premiere episode, which arrives connected FX October 21. There’s a infinitesimal wherever an outsider asks the roommates why, exactly, they’re allowing their traditionally top-secret vampire lives to beryllium filmed by a clump of humans. It’s startling for the characters, but besides for the audience—What We Do successful the Shadows is evidently styled arsenic a mockumentary, but it’s besides precise casual to hide that determination are unseen characters successful the premix arsenic portion of that set-up.

“There’s decidedly a dynamic [between the vampires and the movie crew] that does get opened [up more] towards the aboriginal extremity of the play successful a precise meta mode that was amusive to make,” shaper and manager Kyle Newacheck shared from the SDCC stage. “It’s a question we ever asked ourselves: what does the documentary [crew] know? How overmuch bash we cognize astir them, and whatnot? I volition accidental that that I did get to play a manager on the amusement astatine a definite constituent portion I was directing the show, which was the astir meta happening I’ve ever been a portion of. And it was it was an implicit blast.”

Added Mark Proksch, who plays Colin Robinson, “Coming from The Office, that was my archetypal role, truthful I consciousness similar I mostly movie mockumentaries [laughs]. So it conscionable feels earthy to me, having them beryllium around. And we really item the thought that it’s a documentary this twelvemonth successful a truly absorbing and amusive way. It conscionable caters to comedy.”

What We Do successful the Shadows returns October 21 for its sixth and last play connected FX.

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