Acting as the vampires’ “familiar”, Guillermo is a human who desires being turned into a vampire, acting as their personal servant under a promise that they will one day turn him.
Human characters are more important in the show then in the movie, especially the character Guillermo. For example, when the recently turned vampire, Jenna, is receiving instructions on how to turn into a bat, she asks where her clothes go during the transformation, to which none of the veteran vampires can answer. The jokes about more familiar vampire mythology is just as intelligent, poking fun at how a lot of recurring tropes in vampire fiction don’t make sense for modern sensibilities. It’s humor that instantly hits, because so many of us know someone like Colin in our lives (he even says that energy vampires are the most common type of vampire). Unlike their blood-sucking brethren, energy vampires don’t hold typical vampiric qualities, and instead prey on the energy of humans by being boring and frustrating in conversation. Take the character Colin (played by dead-pan maestro Mark Proksch), who is an energy vampire. The world-building by Clement and his writers is endlessly clever, especially as they find new avenues to make the show’s mythology correlate with everyday life. While the vampires' lackadaisical approach to life is similar to that of the film’s, the drama of knowing that our protagonists aren’t acting out on their grand task adds more humor and tension to the proceedings. Early on in the series we learn that the show’s central group of vampires were sent to America eons ago by an elder vampire, instructing them to take over The New World. Similar to other recent comedies that create an engaging juxtaposition between meta-elements and world-building (Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s On Cinema universe being perhaps the best example), What We Do in the Shadows only grows more detailed with each episode.
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