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Dark Shadows featured a dysfunctional and wealthy family living in rural coastal Maine and found their lives entangled with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, demons, Frankenstein style monsters, zombies, humanoid phoenixes, time travel, alternate universes, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde style character(s), and even Lovecraftian monstrosities known as Leviathans.
The show was struggling for its first year so in desperation to save it, in episode 210 they introduced the vampire character, Barnabas Collins. Originally meant to be a temporary villain, people found him sympathetic, broody, and tragic. He shifted from villain to anti-Hero and then finally out-right hero, and sort of a monstrous guardian angel for the Collins Family and their dysfunction and predisposition to get in trouble with the supernatural.
Later in the series Barnabas would be joined by the Dorian Gray-esque immortal, Quentin Collins, as his ally and relative facing the forces of darkness together. (I swear that family mansion is probably on what they'd call a Hell Mouth on Buffy The Vampire Slayer or at the very least a convergence of ley lines.) Heavily influenced by Gothic literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Dark Shadows was very unique, melodramatic, fun, and campy but also very atmospheric and the characters took their situations very seriously.
Dark Shadows featured a dysfunctional and wealthy family living in rural coastal Maine and found their lives entangled with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, demons, Frankenstein style monsters, zombies, humanoid phoenixes, time travel, alternate universes, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde style character(s), and even Lovecraftian monstrosities known as Leviathans.
The show was struggling for its first year so in desperation to save it, in episode 210 they introduced the vampire character, Barnabas Collins. Originally meant to be a temporary villain, people found him sympathetic, broody, and tragic. He shifted from villain to anti-Hero and then finally out-right hero, and sort of a monstrous guardian angel for the Collins Family and their dysfunction and predisposition to get in trouble with the supernatural.
Later in the series Barnabas would be joined by the Dorian Gray-esque immortal, Quentin Collins, as his ally and relative facing the forces of darkness together. (I swear that family mansion is probably on what they'd call a Hell Mouth on Buffy The Vampire Slayer or at the very least a convergence of ley lines.) Heavily influenced by Gothic literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Dark Shadows was very unique, melodramatic, fun, and campy but also very atmospheric and the characters took their situations very seriously.
