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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman TV Critic Mar 27, 2019 2:17 PM UTC  Kayvan Novak (left) and Harvey Guillén in What We Do in the Shadows Kayvan Novak (left) and Harvey Guillén in What We Do in the ShadowsJohn P Johnson—FX  by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman TV Critic Mar 27, 2019 2:17 PM UTC From novels to comics to headlines, the insatiable content maw that is television in the 2010s keeps sucking up dubious source material from every available medium—and movies are no exception. But don’t hold that against _What We Do in the Shadows_, which has cried out for a TV adaptation since the 2014 film by the same name. Directed by two of its stars, Jemaine Clement (_Flight of the Conchords_) and Taika Waititi (_Hunt for the Wilder­people_), the mockumentary about slacker roommates who also happen to be vampires was like an uproarious, super­natural _Real World_. With Clement and Waititi on board as executive producers—and on hand to write and direct some episodes—FX’s comedy treatment is even more fun. Premiering on March 27, it relocates the lair from the creators’ home country of New Zealand to exotic Staten Island and switches up the cast of vamps: Decadent Laszlo (Matt Berry), whose hobbies include erotic topiary sculpture, and his enchantress beloved Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) are campy twists on well-worn Gothic archetypes. Their nominal leader is Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak), an out-of-touch erstwhile Ottoman warrior whose human familiar (Harvey Guillén) is desperate to be “turned.” The loose plot is set into motion when a powerful Nosferatu type visits the crew and discovers that, hundreds of years into a mission to conquer the New World, they’ve made zero progress. Their attempts to make up for lost time catalyze encounters with werewolves, local Staten Island politicians, live-action role-playing enthusiasts (including one played by an amusingly naive Beanie Feldstein from _Lady Bird_) and a crew of hip Manhattan bloodsuckers led by Nick Kroll. Yet _Shadows_ thrives on characters and droll dialogue more than story. In fact, what gives the show an edge over the movie is the addition of an instantly familiar new species: an “energy vampire” who drains his victims of life force without so much as breaking their skin. Day-walking milquetoast Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch, a.k.a. Nate on _The Office_) is a fount of inane factoids and a lover of pointless bureaucracy, torturing the sitting ducks at his cube-farm office with such polite threats as: “Remind me to email you a Slate article on the millennial housing crisis.” Nobody is more exhausting­—except maybe the self-­dramatizing emotional vampire (_Saturday Night Live_’s Vanessa Bayer) who invades Colin’s turf in one very funny episode. 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