At the top of season 4 of “What We Do within the Shadows,” Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) made the drastic resolution to ask Derek (Chris Sandiford) to show him right into a vampire. Fed up after years of his grasp, Nandor (Kayvan Novak), ignoring his pleas, he decides to get it accomplished himself.
But firstly of the present’s fifth season — which premiered its first two episodes on July 13 — we discover out Guillermo’s turning did not work. Or it did work, however solely somewhat bit. It’s been 16 days, and the standard vampire powers have not totally are available in for him, which is very irregular. Guillermo can nonetheless eat meals (although he does crave very uncommon meat). He can nonetheless exit within the solar. He cannot, nonetheless, flip right into a vampire bat and fly away.
Guillermo additionally learns that having a vampire who’s not your grasp “flip” you is a large slight to Nandor, which he did not know. Laszlo (Matt Berry) calls it the “best humiliation” a well-recognized may inflict on his grasp, and Nandor says that if Guillermo did it, he would kill him after which himself. Guillermo’s in a tricky spot, as he can also’t have Nandor chew him and faux that Nandor turned him. Why? Apparently, getting bitten twice makes a vampire explode.
So why is not Guillermo a full vampire? Viewers did study in earlier seasons that Guillermo is a descendant of the legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing, which explains why he is such an exquisite vampire killer (or defender, when the coven wants him to be). Is it attainable there’s one thing in Guillermo’s DNA that retains him from totally remodeling? Could he simply be an undead vampire killer now, with some bizarre quirks (however with out the will for blood)? It positively appears attainable.
There’s additionally the prospect that Guillermo’s transformation is not working, as a result of he did not have his grasp do it for him. Maybe his transformation will end when he lastly does inform Nandor the reality — even when it breaks their relationship without end.
At the top of episode two, Guillermo tells Laszlo about what he did, so we’ll have the remainder of the season to determine simply what is going on on together with his vampirism, and if he could make it out of the scenario alive (or, fairly, undead).
New episodes of “What We Do within the Shadows” premiere Thursdays on FX and stream the following day on Hulu.