User Reviews

First of all, I will never understand people not liking one aspect of an episode and giving it a 1/10. Like seriously? You didn't like 1/3 of the episode and now it's an automatic 1? You know there are other numbers that exist between 1 and 10, right?

Secondly, complaining that this episode was creepy, upsetting, and weird. Umm, yeah? Did you not understand that you've been watching a TV-MA vampire show with a Horror genre tag for 5 seasons now?

Yes, this episode and its creatures definitely are among the most bizarre and weird things this show has done, but it was great! Although I wish they did more with them.

I love that even the parts that are CGI still look like they're using animatronics and everything feels practical. I just love how they have been blending CGI and practical from the very first beginning to make everything look as real as possible. It will definitely age the show like fine wine for the years to come. They don't use cheap CGI that ruins the immersion and make the show look dated.

I just appreciate them caring enough to have practical effects as much as they are able to and not ruin the amazing production and set designs with bad CGI. Even the clearly all CGI creatures and parts still look so well done and the lighting is done so well that it blends the CGI with the environment and makes it look as real as possible and they don't look like cheap TV-level CGI either.

The Guillermo creatures are definitely creepy and bizarre, but this show has always been bizarre from the beginning, and I appreciate them keeping up the wackiness and weirdness even this far into the show. They introduce new vampire power-related things even 5 seasons in and I can't get enough. Because I honestly thought they couldn't do more creative things with vampires and they've done it all. But they keep surprising me this the new creatures and the witchcraft and things like swapping souls and all that stuff, and I really appreciate it that they keep it fresh and introduce new things.

This episode is also really funny but mostly because of Laszlo again. The lines they Matt Berry are absolute comedy gold, but Matt Berry's delivery just makes them the funniest thing ever. Matt Berry can say the most normal sentence ever in his Laszlo voice and you'd be dying of laughter because of his delivery and his hilarious pronunciation of certain words. His pronunciation and talking are definitely one of the best and funniest parts of this show as a whole.

Anyway, this episode might not be one of the best episodes of the show narratively and plot-wise, nor is it the funniest one. But it is still a competent episode that will make you laugh nonetheless and you can't really ignore the efforts they put into being creative with the story and the characters, and also all the efforts put into the production, makeup, and the visual effects.

The only part I thought didn't work that great was Nadja's plotline. They don't really do much at all with that storyline and it's repetitive throughout the episode. It doesn't have the potential or the capability of being that long and definitely felt like they only had an idea for the first act of a plotline for Nadja. But didn't come up with the rest of it and just repeated the same thing over and over and the conclusion isn't satisfying at all.

It's not like they do much with Guillermo's plotline either, but at least that one had Laszlo in it and it was entertaining and funny.

I might be a little generous with my rating here, but I really enjoyed this episode and I thought it was well-made.

I have to disagree with all the 1 star reviews because really ?? 1 star, the worst thing you have ever seen, stupid.

The episode is about Nadja trying to break the curse as she seeks help from and elusive "magic lady", Nador and Collin take over the class that Nadja was teaching and take the class on a history trip, all while Guirllmeo is tasked with eliminating the monstrous creatures made with his DNA that Lazlo had been testing with.

A STRANGE episode to say the least, it did have some funny moments but it didn't have the effect on me previous episodes have been having, it's not a bad one it's just not great either.

I usually don't write reviews on imdb, so hopefully you won't mind my sudden appearance. But because Episodes 1-6 of Season 5 (this current season) were the best episodes they ever produced to this show (I rated each one 10/10, something I don't usually do), I felt I needed to say something. Compared to these early episodes, this episode stands out like a sore thumb due to the huge quality drop it has. Allow me to explain further.

The best part of this episode (by far) comes from the Colin Robison and Nandor plot. Not only the jokes landed, but also Mark Proksch and Kayvan Novak made the otherwise lackluster material that was handed to them shine. So let's give this part a generous 8/10 (good, but not great). Mildly funny plot, but otherwise unremarkable and easily forgettable.

Unfortunately, that cannot be said to the horrendous and unsalvageable segment handed to Natasia Demetriou. She is one of the best parts of the show, however, not even a great actress as she can save when is dealt with a complete nothing burger. In fact, I feel disrespected by her. You make your incredible lead actress going around looking for donuts the entire episode?? WTF. If this came out in the 60's, people today would comment something like: "Ohh look at the generic portrayal of women.... This is clearly a sign of those chauvinistic times, where women were giving these 'womenly' tasks". I can't believe we are in 2023 and someone thought that this was okay to write this part and air. So I'm giving this part a 1/10 (complete disaster). A filler segment that is a complete waste of my time, the production's time, Natasia's time (I bet) and just completely dumb. I'm just not giving this a 0/10 because of Natasia's incredible New York accent line delivery. Otherwise, what were they thinking?!

Finally, Harvey Guillén and Matt Berry are dealt the episode's A plot, but because this episode is a mess, it's more like a C plot. For real, did we need two scenes establishing the premise? Even though, I didn't find it particularly funny or remarkable, some jokes did land and at least the meager material was enough for both actors to shine in some spots. I am going to be fair, and give this part a generous 6/10 (above average). After all, the costumes and the creature design were great! It's just that, like the first two previously mentioned plots, the writing just wasn't there.

So basically, who wrote this? I feel like I can honestly do better, and I'm not a screenwriter! This felt much more like one of the mild episodes of last season (which I felt people online didn't like as much) than the great pacing and story of the early episodes this season had. Even though I feel like this episode had its fair writing problems, I'm going to give a generous 7/10, because everything else was spectacular, like always. Hopefully this is the outlier of the season and the last 3 episodes will be as great as the first 6!

I love the show but this episode was so creepy and upsetting. I will do everything I can to forget it ever existed. Talking guierrnimals were deeply awkward and didn't do anything to actually advance the storyline. Everything else in the episode was pretty back-burner, with Nadja trying to remove the hex but buying donuts for 20 minutes and Nandor forgetting his luggage when migrating to Staten Island. The saving grace was Colin Robinson's "cool teacher" which got the only relatable laughs in the whole episode. Again, I love this show but strongly suggest skipping it and rewatching the Jackie Daytona episode instead.