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The Legend of Jackie Daytona The comedy series “What We Do in the Shadows,” about a group of grumpy centuries-old vampires sharing a house on Staten Island, is, like “m*a*s*h,” a seemingly unnecessary TV spinoff of a beloved movie that manages to be terrific itself. In this season’s best episode, the vampire Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry), while being pursued by an enemy (played by the guest star Mark Hamill), flees to Pennsylvania, where he masquerades as a “regular human guy” named Jackie Daytona. (His disguise involves little more than a toothpick in his mouth.) The name alone, spoken by Berry with relish, is joke enough, but things take an especially delirious turn as Jackie becomes a dedicated booster of the local girls’ volleyball team and a folk hero, even as he casually slays several townspeople along the way.