There's a hidden What We Do In The Shadows series finale coming next week!

This past Monday, the tenth episode of the sixth season of What We Do In The Shadows, titled "The Promotion," dropped on Hulu and FX. The sixth season is the final season for the vampire sitcom, which has been delighting audiences since 2019. Every past season has had 10 episodes total, so some fans assumed this was it.

But no! For this sixth season, there's an extra eleventh episode that will air on Monday, December 16, 2024. Simply titled "The Finale," it will bring to an end the stories of Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, Guillermo and Colin Robinson.

As someone who's been a fan of this show from the beginning, I'm glad we're getting this little bit of extra content here at the very end. I extend my special thanks to executive producers Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the people who created the 2014 What We Do In the Shadows movie on which the series is based, for going the extra mile.

Speaking of Waititi, he talked to Entertainment Weekly about ending the show. "This went on for far too long, but I'm proud of it," he joked. "I thought that the movie, when we were making the movie, I said to Jemaine, 'This feels like this is like a five-minute idea that we're stretching out into a movie.' Next thing, we made six seasons of the same idea."

The 2014 movie was a cult hit, but apparently Waititi and Jemaine had a hard time selling it: "This movie was rejected by every studio that Jemaine and I pitched it to, because we said, 'It's going to cost $1 million,' and every studio said, 'We don't even know how to make a movie for that low,'" Waititi recalled. "So they said, 'Who's in the movie? Who's going to be in it?' We said, 'Well, we want to get Johnny,' and they went, 'Ooh, Johnny, yeah, okay, Johnny, do you mean Johnny [Depp]?' And we went, 'No, our friend Johnny [Brugh]. He's a landscape architect. He does landscaping in Auckland.'"

Movie studios have been spending themselves into danger lately, with mid-sized or small-sized studio movies basically becoming a thing of the past. The success of What We Do In The Shadows could stand as a lesson to them; it started as an unassuming, cheaply made movie that was an unexpected hit, and then a successful sitcom that ran for six seasons. If you give new ideas the space to grow, everyone benefits!

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