What We Do in the Shadows – Season 3, Tig Fong, Yana Gorskaya and Kyle Newacheck (dirs) (2021), USA: FX

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What We Do in the Shadows -Season 3, Tig Fong, Yana Gorskaya and Kyle Newacheck (dirs) (2021), USA: FX Reviewed by Cheska McGovern, Lancaster University In 2019, the What We Do in the Shadows franchise (2005-present) expanded its queerinclusive fantastical universe with a comedy-horror television series of the same name, What We Do in the Shadows (WWDITS) (2019-present, USA: FXP, Two Canoes Pictures and 343 Incorporated). Set in modern-day Staten Island, the series follows the nocturnal lives of four vampire roommates and their familiar-turned-vampire-killer bodyguard -Nandor the Relentless, Laszlo, Nadja, Colin Robinson and Guillermo de la Cruz (performed by, respectively, Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Mark Proksch and Harvey Guillén). Through a celebratory approach towards otherness and the reappropriation of heterosexual romance tropes, the third season of Jemaine Clement's creation enriches its preestablished queerness and, more overtly than previous seasons, interrogates the chosen family model.