This hiatus has been fucking insane. It’s been about 3 months, which honestly isn’t that long when it comes to waiting for new seasons of TV series to be released, but there have been so many fucking leaks/teases and I genuinely can’t tell if it’s normal or not. Like, I don’t really watch a lot of tv, and I’m incredibly hyperfixated on WWDITS, so it’s possible that this is standard and I’m just not used to it, but even then, this poor fandom has been on FIRE. So I decided to rank the flames by how much money Harvey Guillén owes me for emotional damages (even if he’s only directly responsible for two of these I’m still sending him the bill)
Everything on this list is only going to be things that happened after the end of season 3, not everything that we know about season 4. Also, there’s probably a few things that I missed, but I’m assuming that if I missed it, it probably wasn’t big enough to be on the list. I’ll include relevant links or pictures so that if you haven’t heard of something here, it’ll be easy to figure it out. Shout out to @ineffably-human in particular, since I ended up linking a lot of their posts, either because they posted whole transcripts or because they were more active than I was around the time of a big event.
Is it bold to rank all of these as if the hiatus isn’t over and there isn’t a possibility of more leaks? Yeah. I don’t know what I’ll do if we get more information, and I’m worried that if I say “this is probably it” that we’ll get even crazier information tomorrow, but I guess if that happens, I’ll just make a quick edit to put whatever weird thing happens in the ranking and reblog to let people know that I updated it. I’m mostly just making this now to cope with everything that’s happened since October and hopefully organize everything in a way that’s helpful to anyone who wants a little glimpse at what it was like to be in this fucking fandom for the past few months
Anyway, spoilers ahead
9. Pipes and a new drywall
I’m not sure how many people actually know about this one, it doesn’t reveal much of anything, but I wanted to include it since it was a part of the whole Vimeo fiasco
idk if it has already been pointed out, but here’s another self tape for season 4 on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/649745812
This is just pure no
8. Pretzel Guy
Out of all the leaks, this is the one we have the most information about in terms of it being an actual video with Kayvan Novak as Nandor dry humping a pretzel. Some people have pointed out that pretzel guy is probably Freddie, which I agree with, but this leak just didn’t really keep me up at night in the way others have.
I need the pretzel guy to be named Steve.
7. “Season 4 ends on a cliffhanger”
This one is pretty basic, it was just Harvey on his Instagram story at 3 am talking about how they finished filming season 4 and that it ends on what he calls a “huge cliffhanger”. Great. Thanks. We really needed another one of those.
The moment he said that I was like “…sir?!?!? We’re already dealing with a cliffhanger???? We do we need another one????”
6. Colin Robinson goes to private school
This one is hilarious, or at least has the potential to be hilarious. Watching vampires try to enroll their…weird egg child into a private school is objectively funny, and it also shows that they do care about him socializing and having a good education. Also Sean is there and Sean is amazing
On a Discord server, @kyrilu pointed out two more Vimeo links of people reading for Shadows scenes in s4. I'm posting them with permission.
5. Richie Suck and Tom
Yes, I am going to be completely normal about this other vampire/familiar duo who have a strong relationship. I’m not losing my mind over how the vampire insists that his familiar should be treated with respect, and how he “protects me from myself”. This is fine. Absolutely no parallels to Nandor and Guillermo. At all. I will not stay up late thinking about Richie Suck or his bad stand up. Or how “Richie” is short for “Richard”, and it can also be shortened to “Dick”, meaning that the writers effectively named this character “Dick Suck”. Nope. That would be ridiculous.
On a Discord server, @kyrilu pointed out two more Vimeo links of people reading for Shadows scenes in s4. I’m posting them with permission.
4. Reacher interview (one year time skip)
You know, I’d call Harvey insane for this, as well as everything else he’s done over the course of my time in this fandom, but if I also had the ability to make people on the internet immediately go apeshit, I would absolutely abuse it
What We Do in the Shadows star Harvey Guillén breaks down his latest role as the squeamish Jasper in Prime Video's Reacher television series
3. Al Roberts Spotlight profile
Personally, I had already started to come to terms with the Freddie leak by the time it was confirmed to be true, so this didn’t torment me quite as much as it seemed to torment others, but it did confirm that all the emotions I felt were not for nothing with the added bonus of giving weight to people’s theories that Freddie is the pretzel guy, so it absolutely deserves a place high up on the list.
UMMMMM does this mean I was right about Al being pretzel guy????? AND pretzel guy might be FREDDIE??
Spotlight Profile.
2. The Hug™️
Remember when this was it? Remember when everyone was freaking out about Guillermo in a leather jacket giving Nandor a hug and that was it? We all just collectively made fun of Kayvan Novak for posting that picture and then deleting it shortly afterwards as if that wouldn’t give people the idea that they had seen something they weren’t supposed to? Yeah.
Anyway, this started my descent into madness, I think about it every time I wear MY leather jacket
1. Freddie
I remember when this happened. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. I was scrolling through tumblr while I was at work, got hit with a rush, and then checked my phone about an hour later only to find people collectively going fucking insane. I was stuck for the next 45 minutes only reading what people were saying about the leak (which was usually unintelligible freaking out) because there wasn’t a transcript I could find and I wasn’t able to listen to the audio until I got back to my car and literally played it on my car speakers before I actually left to go home. I don’t think the audio exists anymore, but the transcripts still do.
I don’t think the fandom has been quite the same ever since this happened. There’s a reason why a majority of the leaks on this list are at least tangentially related to Freddie. Seriously, imagine being the actor who accidentally leaked their audition tape and watching everyone go fucking insane as a result. Imagine knowing just how much of an impact you had on a relatively small group of people
I’m honestly surprised that I haven’t seen any fanfics with Freddie as a character though, at least on ao3. I sort of expected to see a bunch of fanfic writers immediately post Greddie one shots or something, but all I’ve found are people talking about how Freddie is probably gonna steal all the vampire’s priceless artifacts because he’s British (derogatory)
So two things: first, I have seen the video of the Freddie leaks. (I am super flattered that kyrilu has opted to trust me with this, because
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