Colin has a birthday and a vampire says goodbye.

Spoilers

It’s a bit tricky to discuss this episode without spoiling its ending, so if you need to look away, do so now. This week we lose a main member of the cast, though whether or not this is permanently, we shall see.

We begin with Nandor in a cage. He’s still in the same state of depression as last time, when he joined a wellness cult, and has decided to take a timeout by undertaking a Super Slumber, a form of vampire hibernation that can last for anything from 50 to 300 years. The vampires say their brief farewells (for Laszlo it’s a single word) and close the casket.

And then a group of vampire dignitaries turn up and Nadja explains Nandor’s absence by stating that she killed him. He then has to be woken from his slumber to be told he has to pretend to be dead as the visitors admire his legendary member. It’s all very bedroom farce, distracting us from Colin Robinson’s 100th birthday. One the face of it, just another birthday, but Laszlo has discovered in the Compendium Vampirium that an energy vampire dies on their 100th birthday. And after one long, putrid fart, Colin slips away.

Verdict: Can Colin be resurrected, or is he really dead? Some unexpected drama among the farce as we head towards the season finale. 8/10

Nick Joy