Wellington Paranormal: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

The CW | CW | TVNZ 2 | Season Premiere Date: July 11, 2021

Summary: Officers O'Leary (Karen O'Leary) and Minogue (Mike Minogue) are recruited by Sergeant Maaka (Maaka Pohatu) to investigate paranormal cases in this spin-off of the 2014 film What We Do in the Shadows.
[Premiered originally in New Zealand on TVNZ 2 on 11 Jul 2018; in the US on The CW on 11 Jul 2021]

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Zombie Cops
Air Date: August 15, 2018
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S1:E5. A Normal Night
Air Date: August 8, 2018
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S1:E4. The She Wolf of Kurimarama Street
Air Date: August 1, 2018

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IndieWire Steve Greene

Jul 12, 2021

“Wellington Paranormal” is plenty strong enough that it doesn’t really need any “What We Do in the Shadows” callbacks. But it works both on its own and as an entry in a slowly interwoven web. Read full review

Terry Terrones

Jul 7, 2021

Unique, bold and flat out funny, “Wellington Paranormal” is exactly the type of series that network executives should be embracing. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jul 13, 2021

It’s plenty strange and generates big laughs as well as tiny snorts of funniness along the way. Read full review

Polygon Samantha Nelson

Jul 9, 2021

For those who want the world to be an orderly place where cops solve crimes and keep everyone safe, Wellington Paranormal notes that law enforcement would probably be just as bad at stopping werewolves and vampires as they are at preventing real crime. Those ideas might not be particularly empowering, but they are absurdly funny. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jul 12, 2021

Somehow, though, the level of humor on Wellington Paranormal remains consistent and there are no real diminishing returns to Minogue and O’Leary’s obliviousness. The cases of the week have just enough variation that the two leads’ stone-faced eccentricities remain amusing with Pohatu, less clueless and more amiably accepting, getting funnier and funnier the more involved he becomes. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Jul 6, 2021

It’s the kind of comedy that demands your full attention, because the best jokes often involve things happening in the background Minogue and O’Leary are focusing on something unimportant, but the overall pace and caliber of the jokes are much more relaxed than on something like the FX Shadows. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Jul 12, 2021

“Wellington Paranormal’s” loose relationship with reality ends up lending the project a certain airlessness — if absolutely anything can happen, nothing has much weight at all. Read full review

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brockcheese

Sep 28, 2021

This show is not nearly as gut-bustingly funny as it's Shadows counterpart, but watching incompetent cops fail to solve paranormal mysteries in an x-files parody is reward enough.

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Bubber

Aug 26, 2021

It's pretty stupid and not funny, just seems to keep repeating. Maybe it's a New Zealand thing.

0 of 1 users found this helpful01