Drop What You’re Doing and Watch ‘Wellington Paranormal’

This summer the comedy geniuses behind cult classic vampire mockumentary What We Do In the Shadows debuted a new television series called Wellington Paranormal in New Zealand.  It’s a spinoff of What We Do In the Shadows produced by the film’s creators, Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, and Paul Yates, the third member of their production company, New Zealand Documentary Board. Wellington Paranormal follows the lives of the two bumbling cops Waititi’s vampire character glamoured in the film, Officers Minogue and O’Leary, who have been assigned to the Wellington Police’s Paranormal Unit by Sergeant Maaka (Maaka Pohatu) to investigate the unexplained phenomenon in New Zealand’s capital city. It’s a spoof. And like any good spoof, it pays homage to some of the best bits of the crime shows that came before it by, Yates says, “taking the mickey out of” them. There are realistic Cops-esque shaky cam chase scenes and tussles with suspects, horror movie tropes galore, and ample dues-paying to The X-Files. “To put it in layman’s terms,” Officer Minogue explains, “we’re kinda like Mulder and Scully. She’s like Scully because she’s analytical, she’s got the brains, and I’m a man with brown hair.”

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