What We Do in the Shadow’s Nandor
We’ll always love What We Do in the Shadows’ Guillermo, and Colin Robinson definitely had a hell of a time this year. But season three really belonged to Kayvan Novak’s Nandor, whose pursuit of happiness led him to woo the cute front-desk clerk at his gym (a lesbian, alas), an old flame (who was secretly also hooking up with a werewolf, alas), and the leader of a new-age cult of vampires who claim to have turned themselves human again (an exercise in brainwashing, alas). It was an existentially distressing time for Nandor—so frustrating he couldn’t bring himself to celebrate his “Ascension Day” or even keep to his vow of going into a “Super Slumber” vampire hibernation—but we got to see a depth to the character that we’d never glimpsed before. How will he fare on his (unexpectedly solo) jaunt to his ancestral homeland? Season four can’t arrive soon enough with the answer. – Cheryl Eddy
