What We Do in the Shadows

When Dark Shadows Grew Lifelong Fans

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Jonathan Frid and Grayson Hall of ABC’s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which spawned two feature films and charmed legions of fans in its five-year run.

Practically 60 years earlier than FX’s comedy What We Do within the Shadows earned its third Emmy nom for greatest comedy sequence, the ABC cleaning soap opera Darkish Shadows introduced supernatural storylines that includes vampires, ghosts, werewolves and witches to TV — albeit with much less overtly comedian qualities — when it premiered in June … Read more