#what we do in the shadows season 5

[luxlightly]

What's so powerful about the new WWDITS episode, especially watching it a second time, is the moment with Guillermo on the float, beginning to enjoy himself and eventually getting very into the festivities. Because Guillermo, and we as the audience, definitely are led to believe that Sean is just using this event as a cheap way to win a minority vote. Guillermo feels he and the others are being propped up as tokens by people who don't know or care about queer people and are embarrassingly obvious in their lack of understanding. This isn't a pride parade. It's a fake. A sham. For political gain. On the float, he feels like a spectacle. Like something meant to be gawked at or laughed at. Then, he looks around and realizes that this is real. It's messy and it's cringe inducing and it's haphazardly thrown together and it's real. It's completely earnest. Sean openly admits to frequently trying to kiss Lazlo, all the vampires are openly queer. The people here aren't trying to take advantage of his identity and his community. They ARE his community. When Sean says he the vampires are heroes to him and his wife for being "the gayest thing on the block", he means it. They are so unabashedly and proudly, loudly queer in a way Guillermo has never felt safe to be. And Sean thinks that's incredible and brave and heroic. And, he suddenly realizes that he's not a token gay in a fake parade, to be gawked at. He's the center of a float , meant to be showcased. To be put on a pedestal and admired. Surrounded by other queer people all cheering for him and dancing and singing and yelling "I am proud! I am proud!" Because they are proud. Of themselves, of their lives, their love and relationships, and of him. And he feels proud. Maybe for the first time ever. Not for what he can do. Or what he could one day be. But of what and who he is right in that moment. That's what pride is all about. What an absolutely beautiful episode. Which is a WILD statement considering it also included a sentient doll trying to lose her virginity and Nandor falling from space, ass naked, in front of a crowd of people.

[harveyguillensource]

Not sure we’ll survive tonight’s premiere, tbh 🦇🩸

[gaykhonshu]

WAKE UP BABES WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SEASON FIVE RELEASE DATE JUST DROPPED

[jimswaxnose69]

I’m just gonna point out-

I absolutely LOVE how lazlo responded when Guillermo told him what he did. He told him he’s a fucking idiot and stuff but then, after the shaming, he tried to think of a solution. A way to help Guillermo out of the hole he dug himself. Like how a father would react when his teenage son gets arrested, yknow?

Idk ig I just like how his father-like characteristics are still showing through

[cottoncandysprite]

I can't believe the gay vampires are getting even gayer in just one month

[raggedy-spaceman]

Oh so this is how it happened!

[achillys]

[kjthenbee]

I still can’t get over Nandor just full on admitting to going to space to impress Guillermo. None of his usual denial. Just “Yes.”

Sir you are In Love!!!

[underwhelmingalchemist]

I have spent far too long making this

[kazbrekkers-yodaplushie]

1989 (Lazlo’s Version)

[officiallylatetotheparty]

Nobody tells someone to "f*ck off" quite like Matt Berry.

Or Thomas Selleck.

[luxlightly]

So, obviously it's very funny because of the camera angle and everything and that the line is a cliche, but seriously the way that Nandor, who, in the Casino episode, discovered that the world was not a disk held up by elephants, but a tiny globe in an endless and expanding universe and was absolutely crushed, spiraling wildly into an existential crisis about his insignificance, now in this new episode, looks down at the Earth from space, awestruck by the beauty of it, and saying "It really makes you reflect on how small we all are" with reverence...There's something beautiful about that. Especially since the Casino episode, he was alone, staring out at the endless night sky, saying he had no one. And in this, he was making a grand gesture towards a man he loves and wants to impress. From "How can anything I've accomplished mean anything, when I am so small?" to "Isn't it amazing? So small as we are, every accomplishment becomes so immense."

The wars he fought now fade to the annals of history. The country he ruled crumbled centuries ago and he had no one to tell him. But today he flew to outer space. And,after falling to Earth in a ball of flame and burning away his old clothes, symbols of his past he could never move beyond, immediately upon landing being wrapped up by the man he loves in a flag meant to symbolize love and unconditional acceptance. The GROWTH. The SYMBOLISM.

[harveyguillensource]

"I wasn't ready!!" 🦇

Neither were we, Guillermo. Neither were we...

[gaykhonshu]

giggles

[bug-buzzz]

Guillermo's thighs in this image 😳

[brumly-boys]

Detective Nadja in What We Do In The Shadows