What We Do in the Shadows: Sleep Hypnosis (6x03)

This was delightfully chaotic!

Cons:

I feel like I said this a lot in last season's reviews, but the Guide feels generally useless as a character. I hadn't even really noticed that she hadn't been around much in these first few episodes. I really wish they could give this character something cooler to do! The actress is so funny!

Pros:

This was my favorite of the three episodes so far. I just really loved the premise. It feels very classically sitcom-ish in that it has one central conceit and it runs wild with it. The subplot and main plot don't really have distinction, it's the whole gang all caught up in the hypnosis situation, but just coming at it from different angles. Colin as the instigator here really made me laugh! His wall where he's got everything all mapped out and shows how he's losing ground in the group dynamic was so silly. I love that he positions himself as the lone man out, because previously there were two united pairs in the house - Lazlo and Nadja, and then Nandor and Guillermo. Pretty insightful of you, Colin Robinson...

And then just all the fun hypnosis shenanigans! Everyone having their own realization moment about the hypnosis, the Baron hypnotizing himself, the moment when everyone had forgotten each other but the one thing they did remember was the argument about what to do with the space under the stairs... everyone being horny for everyone when they couldn't remember one another... the bit with the phone translating Nandor's language when he reverted back to his factory settings, so to speak... all of this was so funny.

Then we get to chase it with the bittersweet ending, when Guillermo, hypnotized by accident, reverts back to being an eager guy hoping to become a vampire's Familiar on his road to getting turned into one himself! Nandor was so pleased to have Guillermo eager and impressed by him for the first time in years. Man, I don't trust this show to actually go anywhere with this relationship or end the show with any huge status quo shift, but I do hope I'm wrong and we get something juicy...

Three episodes down, which means only a handful left before this show is gone for good! I'll miss it!

9/10