538: Creepy Paper

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s one of the best things on television right now. It’s “What We Do in the Shadows,” a show that honors vampire lore while placing them in ridiculous mundane situations. A mockumentary sitcom featuring vampires might seem like an entry from TV Mad Libs, but this show (based on an indie feature film also by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi) uses its stellar cast and sharp writing to create a bizarre world of energy vampires, complaining familiars, new-age witches, and—the horror—local politics....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 538, October 2020.
0:11.4	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:14.1	I am your spooky host, Jason Snell, to tell you about this spooky, horrorful episode of television. No, it's not, it's not
0:24.5	actually a spooky thing. It's a show about vampires who kill people, but it's funny. It's what we do in
0:30.0	the shadows, the TV show, and of course there was also a movie. So good, so funny. And yeah,
0:36.3	there's vampires and murder and werewolves and stuff too.
0:38.7	That's part of the brilliance of it.
0:40.5	Joining me to talk about what we do in the shadows are the following wonderful people.
0:44.0	Lisa Schmeiser, hello?
0:46.1	Hello.
0:46.8	I'm so happy that I get to do this podcast with you guys.
0:49.9	It's good to have you here.
0:52.1	Moises Chuyana is also here.
0:53.4	Hello.
0:53.6	Heed my vision before it's too late.
0:55.4	I've received a message from a slodging beast in the night.
0:59.4	Monty Ashley, happy second anniversary.
1:03.5	Dark greetings, everyone.
1:04.8	Dark greetings.
1:06.9	10th?
1:07.6	Really?
1:08.5	Sage Young is also here.
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