What We Do In The Shadows to end with season six

In yet another frustrating reminder that it’s a good idea to value the things you love while you have them, because you never know when they will be cruelly taken away from you, vampire comedy What We Do In The Shadows will be coming to an end after its upcoming sixth season. That comes from Vulture, which says the news came straight from “an FX source”—though the network, which has aired the series since it began in 2019—has yet to make an official announcement.

That, notably, means we don’t know if this was an FX decision or a mutual agreement between the network and series creator Jemaine Clement. Either way, Vulture says production is supposed to begin in January, so that hopefully gives What We Do In The Shadows plenty of time to construct a satisfying final season and not one of those stupid tossed-off final season that most shows get. That means it’s at least a bittersweet goodbye to a show that has been a regular favorite of ours here at The A.V. Club, regularly appearing on lists of our favorite episodes of the year, our favorite shows of the year, our favorite vampire shows in general, and our favorite comedies of the century (the century is young, but we’ll probably stand by that pick in 80 years).

What We Do In The Shadows, based on Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s 2014 movie of the same name, followed (follows, for at least a few more months) Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, and Natasia Demetriou as a trio of wacky vampire living together on Staten Island, along with Harvey Guillén as one vampire’s human familiar and Mark Proksch as an energy-sapping vampire who lives in the basement.