After five seasons of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, showrunner Paul Simms can finally admit he doesn’t care much about vampires, really — and that’s what makes the comedy on his show timeless and universal. “It all goes back to the basic things: different people having different goals that bring them into conflict with each other,” says Simms of the series in which a group of bloodsuckers descend upon modern-day Staten Island to take over the New World — only to find themselves unable to accomplish their mission, thanks to their collective idiocy.
