Was expecting sexy jinn a la American Gods but jinn exuding accountant-who's-sick-of-people-showing-up-with-a-shoebox-of-receipts-the-week-before-tax-day-energy is even better
[6.7/10] The story of Nandor playing a bizarre, Djinn-powered game of The Bachelor with his former wives was reasonably fun, but the business with getting to the root of The Guide’s hang-ups was a dud.
I appreciate WWDitS delving into more supernatural creatures. Treating a Djinn as a minor trickster, but mostly a punchclock demigod just getting through the task is a clever choice. The gag of Nandor finding some minor fault with each of his former wives until they get a “special gold coin” from the Djinn is a laugh. Guillermo having a non-Vamp romance is very nice, and him being overworked by Nandor’s brood, to where he continues to push back over it, is a good beat for him.
But Nadja feuding with The Guide over turning the vampiric council building into a nightclub, Lazlo psychoanalyzing her, and Guillermo trying to seduce her through gritted teeth did very little for me. There's a couple good lines (mostly Lazlo referring to penis envy as “wang wanting”), but otherwise it’s pretty barren of laughs. And the reveal that The Guide is thirsty for vampire hunters, to where she’s pressuring a clearly uncomfortable Guillermo, isn’t much fun.
Overall, another mixed bag of an episode that leaves me waiting for What We Do in the Shadows to find another gear.
After the premiere's creaky plotting to get the characters back to status quo, this ep is more like it. And Tatiana!
Lot of great moments, especially with the djinn and the wives, but I really have to dock points for the extremely uncomfortable scene with Guillermo and the Guide at the end. It would have been uncomfortable already if Guillermo wasn't gay, but since he is gay - and since Guillermo is Latino and the Guide is white - it comes across as skin-crawlingly hard to watch. I feel like an inverted situation with a heterosexual man being handsy and forward with a lesbian wouldn't have ever made it past the writer's room.
I thought that a Laszlo's Home Makeover Show could've been a great companion to Nandor's dateshow-like wife competition, didn't expect plain psychology with all that build up of Go Flip Yourself.
Excellent. A very British episode of this very transatlantic show.
What the fuck was that shit?!
Shout by The_ArgentinianBlockedParent2022-07-13T23:43:38Z
I don't know. Something's off with this season.