Dark Shadows
When I saw David Lynch speak, he talked about how he liked the way TV shows let you tell a continuing story, and that with a continuing story, you were allowed to go deeper and deeper. There really is something to be said for long continuing stories. I have a love affair with them. But there are so few out there that capture my imagination.
That is why I was happy to find out about the series Dark Shadows. I read about it on Tim Burton's Wikipedia page,
He has been confirmed as the director of Dark Shadows, a Warner Bros plus Depp's Infinitum-Nihil production based on the '60s daytime supernatural soap of the same name. Johnny Depp is expected to star as the vampire Barnabas Collins, with Anne Hathaway as Victoria Winters, and John August being the screenwriter.
I have started watching it, and I quite like it. It's got a great eerie vibe. I am thrilled that it is long, with 1225 episodes. Even Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which lasted seven seasons, only had 144 episodes.
I'm renting them from Netflix. The show was on the air in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It was also in syndication on Sci-Fi a few years ago. I recorded them on VHS, but I need to replace them with DVDs because the quality is horrible. They also had a few Dark Shadows movies, too (made for TV, I think).
Shows are great in how they can go deep, but so many end up crashing and burning cause they built up something huge and epic and didn't pay off. I watched 2 or 3 seasons of The 4400 and it was pretty good until random shiite that had nothing to do with the show started happening, like one of the characters waking up one day and being like 90 then dying. And a baby waking up one day as like a 20 yr old. What the eff is that about? I didn't stick around to find out. Life is only so long.
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What channel is it on??? I am so burnt out on Ghost Hunters, prime time TV is lame, wish I had HBO and Cinemax so I could see Dexter and the new vamp show in HBO....reality tv just pisses me off.
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