TV: What We Do In The Shadows Ending After Upcoming Season 6

[BostonBob]

from deadline.com:

FX‘s What We Do in the Shadows will end with its sixth season, Deadline has confirmed.

Based on the 2014 feature film of the same name by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do In The Shadows documents the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island with the help of their human familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén).

FX renewed the comedy for seasons 5 and 6 in 2022. The former premiered on July 13 and concluded on August 31.

Ratings-wise, the Season 5 premiere was down 35% in total viewers on FX with an audience of about 326k tuning in on the linear channel. The season struggled to maintain that audience, averaging only around 275k viewers per episode. That’s down from an average of 356k per episode for Season 4. This data is very limited though, considering it doesn’t account for any viewership on Hulu, which likely attracts a majority of the show’s audience. It’s unclear if the series made up for the linear audience it lost on streaming.

In its first two seasons, What We Do in the Shadows earned 10 Emmy Award nominations, including one for Outstanding Comedy Series. Season 3 is currently eligible for Emmy consideration and recently earned three Critics Choice Award nominations, including one for Best Comedy Series.

Most recently, the series received four additional Emmy nods including Outstanding Production Design, Outstanding Picture Editing For A Single-Cam Comedy Series, Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Costumes.

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[Rodgerwilco]

Absolutely love this show. Got into it after watching a few other Matt Berry shows and it quickly became a favorite show of my wife and mine. The writing is excellent and production quality is awesome. The guest cameos are incredible as well.

Watched the first 2 episodes of season 6 yesterday. Still some hilarious moments, but hasn't hit the same as some earlier seasons so far. I'll give it some time.


I'm actually glad the show is having a hard ending instead of just churning out episodes until it gets cancelled. Always respect a series that ends on a good note.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I thought they announced it a year ago that was the plan

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I thought they announced it a year ago that was the plan

This is a bump from an old thread lol. Didn’t necessarily want to start a new thread about it

 

[the valiant effort]

Will likely catch up tonight. Hopefully Laszlo gives us a classic reading of New York Cit-ay

 

[the valiant effort]

Series finale tonight

Colin Robinson still consistently brings the laughs but overall this season has been pretty uneven. I feel like they fumbled giving Tim Heidecker a lowkey smarmy boss role, he should have been playing a complete maniac or a rival to Colin (lol). Tonight though I bet will be a 9.5er on IMDb

 

[BostonBob]

FX will air 3 versions of the series finale - the regular version and 2 different versions with alternate endings. They will all air tonight back-to-back-to-back.

 

[SepticFish]

For those that missed it, the different endings were just the part where Nadja hypnotizes the audience.

In the first showing, they did a spoof of the Usual Suspects ending, the second was Rosemary's Baby and the third was Newhart.