Although the troubles of our world never bled into “What We Do in the Shadows,” the story never shied away from politics within its own musty, rotten realm. In Season 3 Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) and Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou) took over the Vampiric Council of the Eastern Seaboard, splitting their duties until Nadja proved herself more worthy and invested in wielding power.

The comedy’s most recent episode finds Nandor coming to grips with being fired from his janitor job at the venture capital vampire firm where his former familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) works by disappearing. The gang finds him holed up in a New Hampshire factory of a company Guillermo’s firm just finished gutting, babbling incoherently like Col. Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now.”

“Many of the humans left when the jobs did. Those that remained, they needed – they craved – a leader. A warrior. A commander. And they became my army,” he tells his roommates. His war council, and his concubine pit, consists of a crew of mannequins. When Guillermo appears, Nandor hisses, “You are the enemy.”

Tempted as we may be to view this episode as premonitory, keep in mind these episodes were written and filmed many months ago. Nandor is only doing what any thin-skinned former conqueror would do in a world that dismisses him, throwing wild swings in the dark.

Kayvan Novak in "What We Do in the Shadows" (FX)Energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) soared closer to power in Season 5 when he campaigned for Staten Island comptroller primarily for the mass feeding opportunities, correctly surmising that there’s nothing duller than debating the policy planks of an elected position few people if anyone understand.

The only housemate who abstained from such contests is Laszlo Cravensworth, Matt Berry's comically pompous aristocrat who’d rather focus all his lust on his "lady wife" Nadja and other more noble hobbies. Like, say, maintaining his X-rated shrubbery or reanimating dead flesh into a lumbering errand boy.

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