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Images Moving Through Time –
September 6, 2022 |
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Accidental grotesqueness in Dark Shadows, courtesy of a warped mirror and a clueless actor. Kate Jackson betrays a malformed face as she stands waiting for her cue, mouthing her upcoming lines (as the crew bangs props offscreen), unaware that the cameras are already rolling. It's a bizarre moment of distorted reality, all the more startling and affecting because it was unplanned. From episode 1195.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
September 1, 2022 |
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In parts one and two, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. Not only was nobody in the spooky tower ...
... even little boxes are eerily empty ...
... as well as bigger boxes, like coffins, because the larger the emptiness, the greater the horror:
Where did everything go? It joined the nothingness from whence it came:
[To be continued. Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
August 29, 2022 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
August 10, 2022 |
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Imagine the horror of lighting a candle and finding no one in the room!
There's endless suspense in nobody stalking or trying to hurt you:
Of course, Dark Shadows was set in a mansion because the bigger the emptiness, the more the horror:
[To be continued. Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... –
July 14, 2022 |
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Neither of these books exists outside the world of Dark Shadows. A Treatise of White Witches and Study of the Druids' Use of the Supernatural. From episode 1122.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
July 4, 2022 |
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How can a long-running horror-themed TV series keep topping itself? It must address the most existential angst of all: nothingness. Though Seinfeld touted itself as the first show about nothing, decades earlier Dark Shadows boldly dedicated hundreds of episodes to spine-chilling nihility. Perhaps it all started with a memo, that an empty envelope is just as good as a letter:
The empty envelop naturally led to the horror of empty coffins ...
... and empty rooms ...
... and entirely empty houses ...
... in which the eeriest thing of all may be that there's no one at the window ...
... no one at all!
[To be continued. That's right: there's more on nothing.]
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