In which Barnabas and Julia find themselves in the far-off future year of 1995, where he is as big a jerk as ever: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/20/e...

contender for my new favorite cut dialogue of all time

In which I work up my ideas for another version of the "Parallel Time" segment into a story bible. The result is over 20,000 words long. I doubt anyone will ever read it, but it helped me to write it. darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/18/s...

In which Parallel Quentin, who never seemed to be at all bright, turns out to be even dumber than we had imagined: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/17/e...

In which the writers, scrambling to get out of a Parallel Time that has already run out of story, resort to an Idiot Plot: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/16/e...

In which the tables turn and Julia is the one to be incorrectly pronounced dead: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/15/e...

In which Julia has trouble staying awake, and we can sympathize with her: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/14/e...

R.I.P Dark Shadows Writer Joe Caldwell, he was the last living writer from the original Show. #DarkShadows #JoeCaldwell #DanCurtis

In which we have our last look at Angelique Stokes Collins: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/13/e...

In which every male character is, in one way or another, a killer of Angelique: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/10/e...

In which Quentin threatens to kill Maggie, who realizes he is hopelessly insane: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/09/e...

In which Julia is afraid of being hypnotized, and Roger is afraid of being judged by Barnabas: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/08/e...

John and Christine Scoleri are watching Dark Shadows again, and this time they are analyzing the show as a visual work of art: dsb4idie.blogspot.com/2026/06/shad...

In which Angelique knows who Julia is, so we know that Parallel Time cannot go on much longer: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/07/e...

In which Maggie, unable to sleep, goes to Barnabas' place and is startled to find Claude North there: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/06/e...

Genuinely good dancing, strangely impressive singing.

In which the writers have to figure out how to make Quentin interesting without building the whole show around him: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/03/e...

In which there are some goodbyes to be said: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/02/e...

John and Christine Scoleri's blog Dark Shadows Before I Die, which posted summaries of and remarks about each episode on its fiftieth anniversary, is one of the best DS blogs. Now they're doing it again for the 60th anniversary! dsb4idie.blogspot.com/2026/07/shad...

In which Inspector Hamilton is trying to investigate a case, but witnesses keep bothering him by bringing him evidence: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/07/01/e...

In which we learn that Claude North, who is more to be dreaded than Satan himself, answers his own telephone: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/30/e...

Not a new opinion, I'm sure, but most of The Lovecraft Mythos™ as opposed to the original Lovecraft stories is just crushingly boring, taking all the tantalizing hints of genre-spanning history and implications of 20th century science and turning it into a bunch of big space slugs eating each other.

In which the kaleidoscope keeps turning, arranging familiar elements in new patterns: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/29/e...

Happy 60th Anniversary Dark Shadows, Victoria Winters Came to the Fictional Town of Collinsport Maine, to be companion and Governess to David Collins, she later meets Ghost, a Phoenix and a Vampire named Barnabas Collins. #DarkShadows #60thAnniversary #DanCurtis

In which Barnabas confronts an Angelique who has no idea what his problem is: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/26/e...

In which the episode prompts us to think about what "the supernatural" is and is not. darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/25/e...

CREATIVE HOPSCOTCH: The Perry Mason/Dark Shadows Connection From ahsweetmystery.com 10:30 AM · Jun 25, 2026

In which Barnabas and Will set out to rescue Roxanne: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/24/e...

In which Julia and Carolyn confer about Angelique: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/23/e...

In which Angelique tells Quentin to hit a policeman and break jail, so he does. He isn't under a spell or anything, he's just a moron: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/22/e...

In which you are probably wondering why Inspector Hamilton called you all together like this, when he would so obviously rather be taking a nap: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/19/e...

In which Barnabas responds to Julia's total self-sacrifice for his sake by falling in love with a comatose young woman who might have been her daughter: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/18/e...

In which Julia, having long since destroyed the version of herself that we first met, has killed her Doppelganger and begun to emerge as a different sort of person: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/17/e...

n which we start trying to figure out ways to improve Parallel Time: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/16/e...

In which Julia meets Hoffman. She immediately kills her, then steals her French maid outfit: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/15/e...

Contains a link to a comment I posted long ago on Danny Horn's Dark Shadows Every Day:

In which Barnabas kills Cyrus, and Hoffman prepares to stake him: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/12/e...

In which the Jekyll and Hyde story comes to its climax: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/11/e...

In which Sabrina finds herself in an impossible situation: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/10/e...

In which other bloggers beat me to most of what I was going to say, but I do have something to offer about Julia and Hoffman: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/09/e...

In which we learn that what Stokes has done for Angelique is the inverted mirror image of what Dr Lang and Julia did for Barnabas: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/08/e...

In which Angelique, desperate to be rid of her heat vampirism, wants to see who is in Stokes' back room: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/05/e...

In which Cyrus takes Maggie prisoner and makes a pact with Angelique: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/04/e...

In which Aldon Wicks should have used a realtor: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/03/e...

In which writer Joe Caldwell finds an unexpected way to tie together a big bundle of plot developments: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/02/e...

In which Barnabas proves that Alexis is really Angelique, which is what he was going to believe no matter what: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/06/01/e...

In which Angelique urges Maggie to do away with herself: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/29/e...

In which Liz tries to organize a costume party, and Angelique is really doing Maggie a big favor: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/28/e...

In which Buffie is placed at the center of the action in all the ongoing stories, and is never seen again: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/27/e...

In which Cyrus puts on his disguise and rapes Maggie: darkshadowscommentary.com/2026/05/26/e...