Wellington Paranormal, the TV spinoff of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clements’ What We Do In The Shadows, starts on July 11 and follows Minogue and O’Leary, the two fire-safety preoccupied cops who who investigated the vampire flat in the original movie. They have their own special folder, it’s quite thick. Of course, Americans might have to wait a bit longer to watch.
OMFG thank you! It looks like Vampirezealand 911! I loved those two characters!
[- You vill not notice anyzing out of ze ordinary!
- Well, we certainly hope not.](What We Do in the Shadows (2015) - Nothing to See Here Scene (6/10) | Movieclips - YouTube)
That whole scene was gold, and those two just nailed the Kiwi cop attitude and approach.
Will be watching for sure.
I’ll make the [del]popcorn[/del] bisghetti.
…there was a joke in the opening minutes that is so quintessentially Wellington that anybody that lives any further than Paraparaumu just won’t get it.
And Wellington Paranormal is just dripping with Wellington. Soaking in it. There are so many in-jokes. So many familiar locations. But just like “What you do in the shadows” and “The hunt for the wilderpeople” and “Flight of the Conchords” the localness doesn’t overwhelm the funny. So I’m sure this will make everyone laugh. Its just you will miss that added extra bit of meta-humour.
Thanks Jermaine, thanks Taika. That was brilliant. A real love letter to the capital.
I see it’s going to air on SBS Viceland starting 31 July, but that hardly helps me here in Las Vegas. If anyone finds a place to watch it in the US, please post here so we can all get in on the goodness!
It had great, dry fun ripping the piss out of The X-Files and The Exorcist, and the deadpan Sergeant Maaka was the stand-out for me. I loved the “very rude” little dog, too.
OK, the second episode was even funnier than the first, with Minogue, O’Leary and Maaka in the countryside tackling crop circles and cow abductions in an extended riff on The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Led Zeppelin’s Remasters album. Not sure if there’s a non-regional way around the TVNZ on demand website, but I’ve included the link because you guys need to see this.
I thought the first episode was “meh” but the second was “woohoo!”.
As for watching it in other countries, you can wait a bit to rent it.
They were happy to let me register for the site but the download/stream was blocked because of where I live.
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…third episode was even better than the first two, and I loved the first two. Genuinely scary at times, poking holes at the genre left and right, with a resolution that isn’t far-off how I would imagine the New Zealand Police Force resolving a situation like this and the final three words were perfect. (Although from a NZ point of view, completely predictable 
Knew that line was going to come sometime during the series! )
Hey, how come nobody told me that season 2 has been airing and already finished‽
I think because it has not aired in the US. I think?
Now season 4 has started airing in at least one of the lands down undah.
The first two seasons are on HBO Max here in the US. I have been meaning to check it out but my wife hasn’t been interested.
Some of the same people (Taika Waititi, for example) also created a show about pirates called Our Flag Means Death, with the first episode scheduled to air on HBO Max on March 3.
My wife decided she didn’t like it for whatever reason after ep1, so I continued on my own with the first two seasons on HBO Max and I loved the dry, deadpan humor. Despite the NZ regionalisms and in-jokes, I found the humor traveled quite well.
In episode 4x01, I discovered that there is a Brooklyn in Wellington.