New Zealand comedians turned pop culture superstars Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi know a good idea when they see one.

Their nose for sturdy dramatic and comedic premises has taken them from the beloved HBO musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords to honest-to-goodness Marvel culture mainstays. Clement has starred on FX’s X-Men adjacent superhero drama Legion and Waititi messed around and made the best film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Thor: Ragnarok (you heard me).

Now with Legion winding down and Waititi politely staying away from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the pair are turning back to one of their older good ideas: vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows. The story of vampires trying to adapt to the modern world while occasionally turning to talk directly to the camera worked just fine in 2014 so what’s keeping it from working again in 2019? Not a damn thing as it turns out.

While Clement and Waititi return as producers, they’ve ceded the roles of the chatty vampires to a new crop of talent. Any good comedy is only as good as it characters and any good vampire premise is only as good as its vampires. The series features three “traditional” blood-sucking aristocratic vamps in Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Laszlo (Matt Berry). It also features a different kind of vampire altogether: the energy vampire, Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch).