‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Showrunners on Documentary Rules, the Actors’ Strengths and Baby Colin Robinson

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Kate Aurthur editor“This is all really fun,” said Stefani Robinson, reflecting back on her career. “Making vampire dick jokes, are you joking me?”The fourth season of FX’s vampire comedy “What We Do in the Shadows” will premiere on July 12, but before that, showrunners Robinson and Paul Simms delved into the characters’ Season 3 tribulations: Namely, the existential crisis faced by Nandor (Kayvan Novak), and the death and rebirth of energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch).Simms said Colin’s third-season journey began with Stefani Robinson — no relation to Colin that we know of — saying in the writers’ room, “We can’t just have Colin boring people again.”“So we were always discussing, well, how did he become an energy vampire?” Simms continued. “Where did he come from?

Was he turned into an energy vampire? Was he born that way? “And finally we said, ‘Let’s make those questions his own questions.’”The resulting storyline led to Colin Robinson “dying,” and then being reborn as baby Colin Robinson, with Laszlo (Matt Berry) discovering the infant in the finale.

That caretaking arc will continue in Season 4, with Laszlo wondering whether Colin’s destiny is inevitable, or whether he can guide him into not being an energy vampire. “Nature versus nature,” Robinson said.With the plot arc of Nandor’s season-long ennui, Robinson said: “Being a vampire, you are above it all, and you’ve had every single experience — you’ve become bored with existence because you are able to do anything.

How does that affect any mortal creature?”As Nandor looked for love in all the wrong places, the “idea was him searching for something to fill this hole,” she said.During the conversation, which was filmed for Variety’s Showrunners Sitdown With.