Premieres Thursday, September 2 at 10 PM on FX
The highly anticipated third season of FX’s Emmy-nominated comedy, What We Do in the Shadows, will premiere with two episodes on September 2nd at 10 p.m. on FX and the next day on FX on Hulu. Paul Simms is the writer and showrunner.
Billed as a “mockumentary comedy horror” television series, the show’s dramatic throughline follows four vampire roommates in Staten Island and a “familiar,” a human named Guillermo, played by Harvey Guillén, who is the overworked servant of one of the vampires, Nandor (played by Kayvan Novak). At end of Season One, the immortals discover Guillermo is, in fact, related to the noted slayer, Van Helsing and might have quite a future.
We got so much feedback from people who said ‘I feel like I was watching my mom and myself have a converstion,’ down to the buñuelos in the background.”
When asked what twisted road the series will travel this season, Guillén just shrugs, “Paul is the boss. I don’t know what’s going to happen with Guillermo. I don’t know until the last minute. Actually, I do know what happens, but I don’t know how much I can say. I don’t want to spoil this.”
Simms interjects, “Well, you can say a little about where we are going. A hint is the first episode. The title is “The Prisoner,” and that teases, sort of, what’s going on.
Guillen laughs, “Yeah, that’s good.”
Guillén is the son of Mexican immigrants. He adopted the stage name “Harvey” when his teachers could not pronounce his first name. On a number of television series, Guillén has appeared in recurring roles such as Alistair Delgado on Huge (2010), Cousin Blobbin on The Thundermans (2013–2018), George Reyes in Eye Candy (2015 and Benedict Pickwick on The Magicians (2017–2018). Guillén also provides the voice of Funny the Magic House in Mickey Mouse Funhouse.
As this series has developed over two seasons, Guillén has become aware that Guillermo has become very popular in the Latino community. “I think he should be,” he says. “All the response I’ve gotten from people who said even the smallest scene, like the scene where he’s talking to his mom, affects them. We got so much feedback from people who said, ‘I feel like I was watching my mom and myself have a conversation,’ down to the buñuelos in the background. Little details like that really make a difference.
Guillen concluded, “We can say it till we’re blue in the face, but representation matters and I think we’ve done a really good job of representing. So I look forward to continuing. I know we have already been picked up for a fourth season.”
Featured Photo: (Courtesy Hulu)