There's nothing better than pansexual vampires!
Image: FXFor the last four years, What We Do in the Shadows has been one of the funniest — and gayest — shows on television.
Unafraid to lean into the inherent queerness of being a vampire, WWDITS makes all of its immortal bloodsuckers queer, because, of course, they would be.
But queerness isn’t just relegated to jokes or offhand references to affairs. Several of the characters, especially Guillermo and Nandor have meaningful and season-spanning storylines about their queerness, and specifically, about their feelings for each other.
Now that we know the show will end with its upcoming 6th season, here’s a look back at 10 of the queerest moments in the show’s first five seasons!
1. Laszlo and Nadja's affairs with the baron
To kick off the series, we found out that both members of the vampire couple Laszlo and Nadja are pansexual when they each separately reveal that they had intense affairs with the vampire known as The Baron.
2. Nadja seduces Jenna
One of the early plots of WWDITS follows Nadja as she attempts to turn college-age LARPing virgin Jenna (Beanie Feldstein), but Jenna thinks that something else is happening. Jenna is perfectly willing to try “mouth stuff” with this mysterious older woman.
3. Laszlo and Nandor finish each other off
In season 2, episode 9, Nandor and Laszlo are abducted by a coven of witches and given “witch Viagra.” When Nadja refuses to help Laszlo out because he sleeps with every person “with long dark hair and an accent” (including, she finds out, Nandor) he turns to his old friend Nandor for a little help.
4. Nadja's reincarnated lover
In the first season, we meet Gregor, a person who keeps on reincarnating into Nadja’s lover in every lifetime, no matter his gender. “When he was a washerwoman, he would pour dirty old mop juice all over my body and rub it into me while he ravished me,” she says.
5. "Gay is in. Gay is hot. I want some gay. Gay it's gonna be."
When the vampires are trying to get young Colin Robinson into a good private school, Laszlo decides that he and Nandor need to pretend to be his gay parents in order to impress the interviewer. That is when this iconic line was dropped: “Trust me. Gay is in. Gay is hot. I want some gay. Gay it’s gonna be.” From there, the two go into graphic detail about their sex lives, letting the interviewer know that “This guy? I ream him nightly,” and “I’m always sucking him off.”
6. Nandor's 37 wives
When Nandor and Guillermo find a djinn’s lamp and rub it, Nandor wishes that the djinn would bring all 37 of his dead wives back to life, including his male wives. “Some of my wives were girl wives, some of them were guy wives; it’s not that different,” he tells Guillermo. Later after he picks one wife and realizes they have nothing in common, Nandor wishes that his wife would love everything he loves so he has something to talk to her about, and this only makes his wife completely obsessed with and fawning over Guillermo.
7. Freddie
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In season 4, we met Guillermo’s English boyfriend Freddie. Nandor, who has just remarried his wife Marwa, quickly finds himself becoming enamored with the man to the point that he uses a djinn wish to make Marwa into an exact copy of Freddie. The episode ends with Guillermo and Nandor having a big fight, and the two Freddies getting together for a bit of selfcest.
8. Guillermo comes out
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Season 4 was a big one for queer fans, as it also featured the scene where Guillermo came out to his family. He had invited his family over to the vampire mansion, thinking they were all gone, but when Nadja appears in the house, he tries to explain that she’s his girlfriend. After a comedy of errors and vampire revelations, he reveals the truth. “I work for the vampires who live here because I hope to become a vampire myself one day,” he tells his family. “And Nadja isn’t my girlfriend… because I’m gay.”
“We don’t give a sh*t about you being gay, we’ve known that forever,” his family replies. “Familia es familia, homey.”
9. The lesbian at the gym thinks Nandor has feelings for Guillermo
When Nandor joins a human gym, he develops a crush on a worker named Meg and asks the others to put on The Cloak of Duplication to pretend to be him to talk to her. It turns out that Meg is a lesbian, and soon she has a sit down talk with Nandor – but it's actually Guillermo disguised as him. Guillermo vents to Meg about his “coworker,” saying, “if you feel a certain way about someone, and you’ve got something going on in your heart…” to which she replies with a knowing, gay look, “Okay, this guy must be really special” and suggests he take him out after work and confess his feelings.
10. The Pride Parade
When the vampires’ neighbor Sean decides he wants to run for comptroller, he asks the vampires to help him out by throwing together and starring in a Gay Pride Parade because they are “literally the gayest thing on the block.”
