In which Barnabas, when he first meets Buffie, starts by imitating Burke Devlin and ends up imitating Professor Stokes: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/22/e...

In which Angelique does not realize that Maggie and Alexis were not friends: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/21/e...

In which Cyrus is no Dave Woodard: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/20/e...

In which the last episode to survive only on kinescope takes us back to a particular episode from the black and white days, and the closing credits bill videotape editors: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/19/e...

In which Maggie Collins comes home to her husband Quentin and makes the acquaintance of a person named Barnabas: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/18/e...

If you ever wonder what the feminist movement accomplished after the 1960s, watch this commercial.

In which I've written up a thousand episodes: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/15/e...

In which Christopher Pennock comes as close as anyone could to making us like Cyrus: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/14/e...

In which Paula Laurence's Angelique imitation, which served the character of Aunt Hannah so well at first, puts her in an impossible position now that Angelique is on the show: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/13/e...

In which Barnabas makes himself at home in his new surroundings: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/12/e...

In which we see Barnabas again: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/11/e...

New episode up! youtu.be/GTtZGreAOrE?...

In which I doxx myself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTtZ...

In which Cyrus, having completed his first murder, finds a chained coffin in the basement of the Old House: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/08/e...

New episode of The Back Room at The Blue Whale with @darkshadowscomment.bsky.social @acilius.bsky.social on Monday!

In which the characters are waiting for Barnabas: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/06/e...

In which Gladstone makes a cryptic remark about Angelique: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/05/e...

In which the show trades Dameon Edwards for Larry Chase: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/04/e...

In which the writing staff is in open revolt against the story of Dameon Edwards, and there is some business about Cyrus and Gladstone: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/01/e...

In which, for no reason we can discern, everyone insists on talking about Dameon Edwards: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/30/e...

In which Fred Block, working man, makes the same mistake with Angelique that Ben Stokes, working man, made with a different Angelique in another universe long ago, and pays an even higher price for it than Ben did: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/29/e...

In which Cyrus, in his "John Yaeger" disguise, amuses himself by beating Buffie and ridiculing her for the injuries he has inflicted on her: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/28/e...

In which Angelique rises from the dead, killing Alexis in the process: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/27/e...

In which Quentin and Cyrus persuade Alexis that Angelique's body must be destroyed, and Alexis pays one last visit to her sister's remains: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/24/e...

In which it is confirmed that Yaeger is just a disguise for Cyrus' cruelty. Also, one of the all-time great bloopers: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/23/e...

In which Gordon Russell does a good job of writing, establishing plausible motivations for Cyrus and for Bruno: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/22/e...

From time to time I check to see if the blog "Dark Shadows from the Beginning" is viewable by the public. It is, today! If you are a fan of the show I urge you to check it out as soon as you can, it might go private again at any moment. darkshadowsfromthebeginning.wordpress.com

This appeared last year, I just stumbled on it today. In response to the question in the title, I'll just say that if the answer is yes, it would explain a lot: theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/10/barn...

In which Cyrus did not start from the same place as Jeb and Buffie did not start from the same place as Nelle, not in the sense that the premise of "Parallel Time" would suggest, but they are commentaries on those characters nontheless: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/21/e...

In which the show gives us yet another kind of mad scientist: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/20/e...

In which we see the "John Yaeger" makeup for the first time: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/17/e...

In which the suspense is supposed to come from asking "Who is Dameon Edwards?," but the only question of any interest is "What originally planned story fell through and left them to fill the time with this pointless kludge?": darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/16/e...

In which they keep us guessing whether Alexis is Angelique and whether Quentin is her murderer: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/15/e...

In which we meet Hannah Stokes, played by Paula Laurence doing an imitation of Lara Parker's portrayal of Angelique: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/14/e...

In which the show compares the relationship between Daniel Collins and his mother Angelique Stokes Collins to that between David Collins and his mother Laura Murdoch Collins: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/13/e...

In which the show is trying to use Parallel Time Quentin to rebuild the Quentin of the main continuity, as Joshua and Edward rebuilt the Roger of the main continuity: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/10/e...

In which we get a good look at Will and Carolyn Loomis, Dark Shadows’ answer to George and Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/09/e...

In which Alexis finds out that Angelique died at a seance, and Cyrus drinks the potion for the first time: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/08/e...

In which Cyrus and Sabrina get engaged, and Bruno has no manners whatsoever: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/07/e...

In which Amy is sure that Alexis is really Angelique and is exasperated with the grownups who are pretending that she isn't: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/06/e...

In which we meet Alexis, learn that Cyrus is a mad scientist, and bid farewell to our favorite writer: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/03/e...

In which DARK SHADOWS' adaptation of REBECCA is even less subtle than was Alfred Hitchcock's: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/02/e...

In which the first week of Parallel Time is recapitulating the first months of the series: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/04/01/e...

In which Barnabas is the guest of Mr and Mrs William H. Loomis, of the Edward Albee Loomises: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/03/31/e...

We spend our first full day in "Parallel Time," where Maggie's counterpart has married Quentin's: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/03/30/e...

Happy 90th birthday to Jerry Lacy, an extremely funny guy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuwJ...

In which the Leviathan segment ends and Barnabas enters Parallel Time: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/03/27/e...

In which Nicholas dies as he lived, making an absolute fool of himself: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/03/26/e...

In which the Angelique we have known makes her final appearance in an episode set in the present day: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/03/25/e...