The vampires return from their world travels to find their mansion on the verge of collapse and Nadja realizes her lifelong ambition of opening a vampire nightclub.

The TV continuation of the 2014 mockumentary of the same name returns for a fourth year, and while it’s great to have the characters back in screen, at this stage it feels like it’s just business as usual.

It’s a year after the vampires went their own ways, apart from boring Colin Robinson, who died and was reborn as a strange baby. Laszlo has been parenting the child, who is growing at an alarming rate, and terrifyingly has the adult face of Mark Proksch superimposed on him. Nadja and Nandor return to the ramshackle house and share what they’ve been up to in the hiatus.

What carries us through these first two episodes is the goodwill we have towards these characters. Each actor has honed their role to perfection and can ride out any plot line. Nadja wants to open a vampire nightclub (with the expected resistance in some quarters) while Nandor wants to remarry and asks a djinn to bring back his 37 former wives and husbands. It’s all good fun, but it doesn’t feel like the show is firing on all cylinders yet.

Verdict: A welcome return for the goofy vampires – but this isn’t strongest of season openings. Maybe they’re just waking up? 7/10

Nick Joy