What We Do in the Shadows season 5 episode 5 highlights: Local News

On the fifth episode in the fifth season of the award-winning vampire mockumetary series What We Do in the Shadows, a Staten Island water main break near the vampire residence brings unwanted attention to our gang of bloodsuckers.

What We Do in the Shadows season 5 episode 5 highlights: Nandor De Laurentiis

Local New York state station WXYK’s evening news is covering the break of a water main in Staten Island. Unfortunately it’s within throwing distance of the vampire house, in the neighborhood of West New Brighton.

The streets flooding has gotten somewhat under control and a news anchor is on the scene taking man-on-the-street color reactions. Unfortunately, Nandor has been roped into an interview.

He’s even been misnamed as Nandor De Laruentiis. And since Nandor is a doofus, he just confesses to the reporter that he and his friends have been living there since the 1890s, then corrects it to the 1990s, and then he gets caught up covering his lies.

Finally, he just panics and runs away.

Back at the house, Nandor tells his friends about his blunder and they all have different reactions and ideas about what to do about this breach in their vampiric omerta.

What We Do in the Shadows season 5 episode 5 highlights: Is it game over?

Colin Robinson wants to stand and fight the proverbial villagers coming with their pitchforks. Nadja has declare game over and wants to run away to another continent. Laszlo proposes they kill the reporter, Joanna Roscoe. While Nandor just keeps on screaming for Guillermo.

Guillermo meantime is visiting his mom, to say a last goodbye and retreat from his mortal life as he becomes more fully a bloodsucker. With everything that’s been happening though he has apparently forgotten his own mother’s birthday.

Which is tonight and something he’s just walked into. Which would explain all the food, décor, relatives, and gifts. Guillermo plops on the couch and sees Nandor on the news, trying to hypnotize everyone into forgetting but he gets cut off by the main anchors for a weather bulletin before he even gets started.

He tries to call the house but all the vamps are busy trying to execute their own plans. Without any consensus this has become chaos.

What We Do in the Shadows season 5 episode 5 highlights: Nadja’s go-bags

Colin has been rigging the house with traps for their Last Stand. Laszlo is still on his board outlining a complex plan to kill or not to kill the reporter. While Nadja has already dyed her hair blonde and prepped her go-bag for departure.

Apparently she’s an old hand at this, having been chased out six times in the past few centuries, telling the docu crew that she’s even slept at the bottom of a well naked, draining mountain goats to survive.

As Guillermo bids farewell to his mom, she gives him an heirloom crucifix pendant, which burns him when she puts it around his neck. Yup, that confirms he’s definitely becoming a vamp.

What We Do in the Shadows season 5 episode 5 highlights: The elaborate plans of vamps and men

When Guillermo arrives back at the house the vampires have all come to an unlikely consensus, deciding to kidnap Joanna Roscoe. Rebuffed, Guillermo watches them on the TV as they put their plan into action.

It actually turns out pretty well, despite Laszlo’s elaborate planning and flair.

Nandor and Laszlo are about to kidnap Roscoe but then their jalopy gets swallowed up by the sinkhole. As a diversion, Colin detonates the news van, cutting off the broadcast feed.

The vamps are now high in the air, lifting the jalopy mobile out of the sinkhole. The news cameraman is getting all of it on film, albeit nothing’s being broadcast. Before the vamps realize it, Joanna and her crew have piled into their news car and escaped.

To solve this, they all turn to bats—well, except Colin Robinson—and infiltrate the network. Once there, they hypnotize the two anchors and, taking the stage, they also hypnotize all the viewers.

What We Do in the Shadows season 5 episode 5 highlights: Bloodsucker broadcast night

Guillermo is impressed with this “pretty solid solution.” Which it actually pretty much is. Nobody remembers that anything strange happened at the water main break (oh, definitely not vampires flying) and the vamps have acquired the hard copy of the tape from Roscoe’s camera man.

So that the viewers won’t be suspicious, the vamps read what’s left of the segment’s news and even turn it over to Colin for a weather forecast—never you mind The Guide off to one side, feeding on the weather girl.

The funniest bit on this episode is really how Laszlo can deliver a pretty put together sports roundup broadcast, his ancient oratory skills serving him well in the modern world of TV news.

You can stream season 5 of What We Do in the Shadows on Disney+