13 sci-fi and fantasy shows you should watch this summer

What We do in the Shadows season 4 — July 12 on FX

Westworld can be too serious a show; there’s no danger of that with What We Do In The Shadows, a sitcom about a group of vampires (and their faithful familiar Guillermo) whittling away their eternal lives on Staten Island.

Or at least, that’s what the show was about in the the first three seasons. Season 3 ended on a cliffhanger as Nandor, Nadja and and Guillermo all set out for Europe, with Lazlo and Colin Robinson holding down the fort in New York. It’s fun to see the show experiment as it reaches middle age. With its wicked sense of humor, there’s no telling what trouble it might stir up.

Resident Evil — July 14 on Netflix

Movies and TV shows based on video games have a spotty track record, but there’s always the chance a new one could turn it all around, right? Maybe that new one is Resident Evil, an upcoming Netflix series loosely based on the long-running Capcom video game series about a zombie apocalypse.

And we do mean “loosely based.” The show stars The Wire star Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker, one of the most iconic villains from the series. Only on this show he has two daughters, and we’ll spend our time switching between what their lives were like before zombies decimated society, and after.

It’s a high concept premise for a show based on a video game series that is mostly about law enforcement types wandering through creepy environs blasting the heads off zombies. It sounds like the producers of the new show have both too much and too little confidence in the source material? I’m not getting good vibes from this show, but I’ll be happy to be surprised.