#Jerry the vampire

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Behind the scenes photos featured in Vulture's WWDITS set visit and final season preview!

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This idea come from the lovely @someoldfires !

"Guillermo is the long-time familiar of Jerry the Vampire. One day, Jerry and his housemates Laszlo, Nadja, and Colin Robinson suddenly remember their fifth housemate Nandor the Relentless, who went into super slumber in the 70s, and they wake him up. Guillermo is not prepared to constantly be around this mysterious handsome vampire man who is somehow exactly his type."

I ain't got a clue what title this

[anney-baker]

Two toxic girlfriends that are everyone's pain in the ass

[starpawedart]

happy gift exchange to @rosewaterraindrops, my fellow season six stan and angst buddy 💕

[redeyeyuna]

Finally we know the purpose of Jerry the Vampire… He is there for blocking Guidor and letting Nandermo happen.

[devilledminion]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | 06E04 (The Railroad)

[lifewillalwaysbe-lavieenrose]

You know what I really wanted to happen here (not just as a nandermo shipper)? A fake dating trope 😔

A few scenes ago they showed how Jerry wanted to kill Guillermo, because he's a human. Then the others stepped in his way and told him - no, he's a familiar, well he was a familiar and Jerry doesn't accept this but randomly lets the matter drop.

In this episode, its established how Jerry incorporates the "old world vampiric" mindset, wanting to take over the New World and have vampires rule it.

When Guillerno helps the other vampires realize that this doesn't fit into their group anymore, they want to kill him because they aren't able to talk it out by themselves. Guillermo thwarts it of and decides to do the talking.

So, think about this:

Nandor realizes it's too big of a shock to let Guillermo announce that they stopped their plans to conquer America. So he sort of steps in, afraid Jerry will get angry and attack him again, as he a) is still convinced they should conquer the world and b) sees Guillermo as a human he can rightfully kill.

So what if Nandor sort of twisted the announcement Guillermo started and rushed to explain that Jerry can't kill him, because they're in love? Of course shocking everyone present, but Jerry will accept it because love conquers all (or something like that), revealing he's a big romantic himself.

And then we'd get a fake dating AU, which would keep Guillermo safe from Jerry killing him. I am delusional I know. But guys do u see the vision ??

Also the set up really worked with Nandor and Guillermo starting to bicker like ??

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[fathercharlesoffdensen]

My instinct regarding accusations of 'queerbaiting' is if a piece of media ultimately ends with the queer characters in question in an established relationship, it is not queerbaiting.

"The Finale" of What We Do in the Shadows, in its OG or 'sacred timeline' if you will, ends with Nandor not only assuring Guillermo that he has a place with the vampires (with him) regardless of his mortal status which is in line with Nandor's established love languages; and then, he invites Guillermo to sit in his coffin with him the way a couple might occupy a two-seater sweetheart sofa, and surprises him with the secret superhero lair that nobody thought he was serious about (one of the most delightful recurring tropes of the show imo). Even more obvious is the alternate universe ending supplied helpfully by Nadja's vampire hypnosis wherein a human Guillermo and Nandor are incontrovertibly gay married and in bed together. By all accounts, Nandermo is canon and married and a couple, et cetera, ad nauseum.

Still, for all of the quiet, soft moments between them across the past six seasons + all of their homoerotic fighting and such, it surprised me that the show sort of failed to "stick the landing," as Colin Robinson offers. I doubt anyone expected the flagrant homosexual dance between Blackbeard and Steed in Our Flag Means Death to be so romantically and exquisitely realized, and perhaps this set an impossible standard, but I can't help but wonder what ultimately accounted for the decision to soft shoe Nandermo into "The Finale" vs. allowing them to finally kiss and be married and co-plan the next Staten Island vampire orgy (because somehow they'd figure out how to make it work for Guillermo to be a vampire); essentially all of the 'boring' hallmarks that the final episode intentionally catalogued through meta fourth wall-breaking and that whose absence makes the cheeky nature of said cataloging kind of feel like whomever made the call to end the show as such is laughing at vs. with the fans.

Alas, "The Finale" feels a tad mean compared to the way similar OTP ships are dealt with in Taika media, and maybe it's simply that he wasn't directly involved and Paul Simms was feeling hounded and peckish. Given how antagonistic much of fandom's one-sided parasocial relationship with media makers can be - and unfortunately, be it borne from immaturity or malice or desperation to see a much-loved concept be realized, this is a huge issue among some Shadows fen - I wouldn't blame the writer(s) for going into "The Finale" at least somewhat embittered. Even so, I can't help but read some compromise and disappointment between the lines of a recent interview with Harvey Guillen regarding how Nandermo ends up:

I think that, for the longest time, when I started playing Guillermo, that was the idea behind the character was like, "Are they, will they, does he?" And I think, because they have a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome, you start feeling a little bit of a way, because the only thing you see in front of you becomes like this person you idolize. He really does idolize Nandor, and he really does want to be a great vampire like him one day. And I think, sometimes, those lines can get blurry. So, the way that Guillermo is, I always say, I walk him on a tightrope, and it's like if he falls one way, he could be in love, and if he falls the other way, it was admiration, it was just admiration for this person. And that's a nice tight rope, because it's such a balance that people are always asking, "Will they, won't they?" I think sometimes we have to normalize two male friends being really close and not making it sexual. I think that we don't do that in society. If we saw two best friends who are female holding hands on the playground, we'd be like, "Oh, my God, they're best friends." But if we see two boys holding hands on the playground, all of a sudden, "What are you guys doing? What are you guys doing? Separate them." Because that's not normal in society, that's not "normal," but it is, and it should be normalized, that we can have close friends and not be sexual, it doesn't have to be. We could have close, same-sex friends and do everything like in a relationship, go to movies, talk about your personal beliefs, your struggles, your life, crying on each other's shoulders, and not have to make it sexual. Because I think once we cross that line, people are like, "Well, you might as well be married, why don't you marry them?" And it's like, you don't have to marry them, you could be in love and have love for someone and not have to make it sexual. I think with these characters, we've done a really great job of keeping the audience on their toes of that. Now, will something happen this season that questions that even more, or makes them one way or the other? I guess you'll have to find out.

TL;DR: Optimistically, my 'ideal' ending that I've had lodged in my head for at least three seasons was not, in fact, realized on the small screen, and thus, I shall see you all over at AO3 and/or lurking in the show's Tumblr tags!

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Me rn (I love you monster)

[harveyguillensource]

Ahead of WWDITS's second-to-last episode The Promotion, Harvey shared these behind-the-scenes photos from production on Season 6!

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Hair brushing in every universe

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[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Theory: Jerry was intentionally causing chaos in the household.

Think about it: Laszlo and Nadja were fighting for years. Jerry goes to sleep. They stop. He wakes up and starts bringing up old memories, they start again.

Granted, we don't know exactly when they stopped fighting, so maybe it was long after Jerry went to sleep.

But also, we see him being a dick to Colin Robinson and making Nandor feel like he's weak. Acting like they failed.

I don't think he's an energy vampire or anything, but I do think it's possible he wasn't just remarking on old times.

[meat-me-in-the-oleander-filed]

I just started what do we do in the shadows 6… I don’t like Jerry he is like the cool uncle who you thought was cool as a child but then you see him when you are grown up he visits and he is just a jerk and not even a funny kinda jerk.

And he is judging my tea choices.

[spookymultimedia]

But do, mi, ti Why not me? Why not me? Do, mi, ti Why not me? Why not me?

[myfavoritemonster]

OH GOD 😨

What if Jerry finds out about Sean and eats him?