In which I say that the episode needed to be more depressing, and suggest a change that might have accomplished that.
Tag: leviathans
Episode 962: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
How the lack of non-supernatural storylines impoverishes the human characters, making it difficult to pace the supernatural ones.
Episode 968: The Only Weakness
In which I complain that the show has run so low on story ideas to plagiarize that they are trying to turn the title into a plot point. I wonder what the next step is beyond that.
Episode 969: PTED
In which I show that the Collinses of the usual continuity must have been Episcopalians.
Episode 970: A Less Rational Explanation
In which I mention a couple of funny lines Willie gets in the episode.
Episode 979: Jeb Hawkes Must Die
I compare Jeb Hawkes with Pinocchio and a series of murders with Portia Fitzsimmons.
Episode 980: Next Stop Keystone City
I make a joke.
Episode 985: The Cassandra Complex
In which I wonder the abrupt shift from the end of the Leviathans segment, when Dark Shadows was emphatically a show for children, to the beginning of the 1970 Parallel Time segment, when it was uncompromisingly directed at adults, did lasting damage to the ratings.
Episode 991: Parsing Sabrina
I look back at the opening of the Leviathans story, and see several moments that look a lot like men afraid of being gay.
Episode 1231: The Curse of Collinwood, or How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I bring up the one example in Dark Shadows of a curse that originated with a Faustian bargain- Paul Stoddard’s deal with the Leviathans. I speculate that 1841 PT may have been good if they’d established the origin of its curse in a deal Brutus Collins made with the Devil.
Episode 1231: The Curse of Collinwood, or How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Dark Shadows Commentary 