Why I think it’s good that Grayson Hall plays Julia as tired and confused in this part of the series.
Author: acilius
Episode 1131: The Perils of Memory
I express my frustration with the way they bring Angelique on board this segment, and claim that they could easily have done better.
Episode 1134/1135: The Graveyard Smash
In which I suspect Nancy Barrett of slipping a Beatles reference into the episode.
Episode 1137: It’s Alive, Sort Of
Does Gerard matter? Could Buzz have mattered? Isn’t it for the best that Buzz didn’t matter?
Episode 1138: The Trouble with Tulips
Why Dark Shadows gave its male villains uncommon first names.
Episode 1139: Nothing on Earth
I express my appreciation of a week’s worth of well-done episodes, and speculate about what the 1840 segment might have been had the show had a big enough creative team to maintain that level for six months.
Episode 1140: You’re a Miranda
I explain how I think the “Meet Gerard” segment works.
Episode 1144: The Merry Widow
I explain how, without making the show any more complicated than it in fact was, they could have made the various Angeliques logically consistent with each other.
Episode 1147: The Strain
I say that David Henesy and Alexandra Moltke Isles, as David and Vicki in the first 42 weeks of Dark Shadows, used nonverbal communication to triumph over poor writing to present an interesting story of a troubled boy and a young woman learning to trust each other. I then try to explain why Henesy was unable to repeat that success as Tad in the “Meet Gerard” segment of the series.
Episode 1149: Wicked
I praise the acting in episode 1149 of Dark Shadows, much of which is intentionally funny.
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