In the ninth episode of this season of What We Do in the Shadows, our dumb but lovable Staten Island vampires must flee vengeful vampire gangs after they accidentally murder vampiric leader Jerry. It’s an homage to Walter Hill’s 1979 cult hit The Warriors, which follows a New York City gang wrongfully accused of murder trying to make it home to Coney Island while gangs chase them across the city.

The episode also introduced a whole world of vampire gangs with more prime real estate than Staten Island. Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, and Colin are a fun, bumbling group, but if I’m going to be a vampire, I want to spend my immortal life somewhere other than Staten Island. Now armed with a whole Rolodex of vampire gangs, I’m doing some preparations for my afterlife and figuring out which of them I’d most want to join up with. Y’know, just in case.

This is probably the most horrific concept the show has come up with in all six seasons. As someone who regularly gets pulled aside for “random searches” and as someone who loathes the........

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