"What We Do in the Shadows" sinks its teeth into a trend of men playing surrogate dads

"What We Do in the Shadows" resumes with the reminder that some people simply should not be parents. Natasia Demetriou as Nadja and Matt Berry as Laszlo in "What We Do In The Shadows" Instead, it's Laszlo who has sacrificed his time and energy toward raising the unhappy accident his dead roommate foisted upon him, determined to prevent whatever "the lad" grows into from being an energy siphoning bore. "What We Do in the Shadows" exists outside of time and the politics of any given moment despite being set in the modern age. The running joke of Guillermo is that he's a self-sacrificing martyr in a madhouse: "I just can leave that innocent kid in this death trap of a house with those lunatics," he hisses, vowing to look after himself... after he plans a wedding for Nandor and makes sure the child doesn't die. We also saw it on "Hawkeye" via Clint Barton's surrogate parenting of Hailee Steinfeld's Kate Bishop, in addition to caring for his biological children.