#parallel time

Yesterday’s episode ended with a climactic moment in Dark Shadows‘ adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde. Sabrina Stuart, fiancée of mild-mannered scientist Cyrus Longworth, had discovered that Cyrus’ evil alter ego John Yaeger is holding Maggie Evans Collins prisoner in a dungeon outside the village of Collinsport. For some reason she drove to Maggie’s home, the great house on the estate of Collinwood.…

Untold Tales of Dark Shadows

At a parallel time, Barnabas succeeded in transforming Vicki Winters into his vampire bride!

“ In either universe, what’s consistent is the insistence on treating Maggie terribly, from one cruel joke -- a haunted voice singing -- to another -- buying a record that will enrage Quentin. If they could have shown it on April 1, it could not have been more apt. And although that similarity exists, Kathryn Leigh Scott finds differences between the two Maggies where she can. Both PT and Main Time Maggie are resilient, I don’t see the ex-diner waitress in this one. With less leather and more silk, she’s a bit more of a victim. That’s not always easy to watch as David Selby’s Quentin rages and Grayson Hall’s Hoffman schemes, but that increased and earnest vulnerability demonstrates something I never wanted to say about Parallel Time: it’s the show’s cruelest storyline. “