Netflix has Dark Shadows on streaming

[siligut]

160 episodes. I didn't watch it when it was originally aired, though I had friends who would rush home from school to see it. I am watching it now, in preparation for the new film

[RandySF]

1. It was first aired long before I was born.

[ElbarDee]

2. Always like this show.

My kids want to go to the movie. How do you explain wha the TV show was about, and why it was made that way?

[Lars39]

3. Grew up on the original....just saw the movie.

They are two different beasts. The movie stands alone, but if you get the nods to the original it's kinda neat. I think Burton kinda restrained himself and for the better in this movie.

[Bolo Boffin]

4. Would you say that we saw most of the wacky stuff in the trailers?

I've got a couple of friends who were majorly disappointed in what they were seeing. They were long-time Dark Shadows fans and didn't like how it was being played for laughs. I thought that being a soap opera, the tone wouldn't survive the kind of compression a two-hour movie story would put on it, so it went goofy to compensate.

I'm just starting to watch the Dark Shadows episodes now. I'm almost done with Deep Space 9, and I'll need something to work through like this. I work nights, and so Netflix is my mainstay when I'm at home and Dallas rolls up the sidewalks.

[Lars39]

5. Yep, I thought the trailers showed just about all of it.

But there was a plot of sorts, too. There was also a lust scene that reminded me of the "love" scene in Mr and Mrs. Smith that I could have really done without.

I don't know what I'd do without Netflix...my little town is just now getting sidewalks. lol