In which we end with the least explicable image ever shown on television: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/18/e...

In which it is 1970 and people take Freud very seriously: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/17/e...

In which we get our first look at Elizabeth Eis, our last look at Bob the Bartender, and see Barnabas under his second vampire curse: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/16/e...

In which Barnabas is revamped: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/13/e...

In which Amy knows her Quentins: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/12/e...

In which Josette bids farewell: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/11/e...

In which Angelique comes down with a fit of the Stupids, and Jabe catches a bat in a cage: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/10/e...

Cornered by a vampire in a dark alley, he’s about to drain you, but then he sniffs your blood, frowns, tells you to take better care of yourself, and leaves you alone.

In which all too many characters look disposable: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/09/e...

One of the impostors on this 1958 episode of TO TELL THE TRUTH is Conard Fowkes, later to be cast as Frank Garner on DARK SHADOWS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR0_...

In which they take a script that has already flopped three times and decide to see if the fourth time is the charm: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/06/e...

In which Sabrina first shows Bruno that she is friendly with the werewolf, then tells him who she is: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/05/e...

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In which Sabrina has a plan: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/04/e...

In which Maggie is definitely not Vicki: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/02/02/e...

In which Barnabas enlists Angelique in the fight against the Leviathans, and Quentin tells Carolyn his right name: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/30/e...

In which Maggie and Barnabas are getting weirdly cozy: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/29/e...

In which we see Sheriff Davenport's gravestone, which reveals that his first name was "Sheriff": darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/28/e...

In which David is using a wheelchair and Julia takes Quentin to dig up a grave: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/27/e...

In which the Leviathans story keeps addressing an adult audience, even though most of the people watching are age twelve and under: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/26/e...

In which there are no tall parts, only tall actors, some of whom are saddled with lousy scripts no performer could salvage: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/23/e...

In which Christopher Bernau makes an acting choice that saves the episode: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/22/e...

In which we don't know what Quentin will do next, but we can be pretty sure he won't do what the guy in the source material did (invented homosexuality and personally made it a big hit throughout his homeland): darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/21/e...

In which the show dramatizes two stories from Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/20/e...

In which Julia serves as an usher for characters in both the A story and the B story: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/19/e...

In which we hear too much about Barnabas' motives and see too much of the antique shop: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/16/e...

In which two characters whose deaths have been faked meet: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/15/e...

n which Julia goes to Coleyville, where she meets a fine actress and admires her work: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/14/e...

In which the differences between Maggie's captivity in a room in the west wing in January 1970 and Vicki's captivity in such a room in October 1966 show us how the show has changed in the interim, for better and for worse: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/13/e...

In which Michael locks Maggie up as Barnabas once did, and he has four characters serving the function Willie did in those days. But it doesn't work out the same way at all: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/12/e...

In which the show harks back to the story of Adam the patchwork man, and has some fun with Adam's interest in Freud: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/09/e...

In which Angelique has come back, and brought with her some music we haven't heard since 1966: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/08/e...

In which a man named Geoffrey Scott walks onto the set and tells us the lines an actor would have delivered had they cast one as “Sky Rumson.” darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/07/e...

In which Amanda tells Julia how she met Mr Best: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/06/e...

In which Chris is such an unlikable villain we can't sympathize with him even when the character he is murdering is played by Roger Davis: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/05/e...

In which Roger Davis sits around and shouts at everyone until his head falls off: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/01/02/e...

In which Stokes has to choose between believing Paul or serving the existing power structure: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/31/e...

In which we find out that the Leviathans are a "restricted" club: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/30/e...

In which Barnabas is visited by three spirits, and realizes he must change his ways: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/29/e...

In which Julia and Chris are an improvement over Vicki and Frank, but Harrison Monroe is a huge step down from the Caretaker: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/26/e...

In which I try to write as if I had never seen or heard of DARK SHADOWS before I happened upon this episode: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/24/e...

In which Quentin finds that David remembers him as the ghost who haunted Collinwood for ten months: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/23/e...

In which Julia learns that the portrait beneath the landscape she bought at the antique shop depicts Amanda Harris: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/22/e...

In which Paul follows the Leviathan child to a new set downstage from the front door in the Collinwood foyer: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/19/e...

In which Alexander visits Collinwood, and Paul acts like a crazy man: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/18/e...

In which Paul realizes that Liz is not going to help him fight his enemies: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/17/e...

In which Liz invites Paul to move back into Collinwood: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/16/e...

In which Quentin has amnesia, and the Leviathan boy ages up: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/15/e...

In which there is a danger Liz will become relevant to the story: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/12/e...

In which Mr Nakamura takes the painting to be x-rayed: darkshadowscommentary.com/2025/12/11/e...