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Noah Berlatsky says:
But the vast changes in style and consciousness caused by the Civil Rights movement are never addressed. Surely Barnabas trying to parse Black Power — or even the Electric Company — would have been worth a laugh or two. But nope. It’s hard to imagine a 1970s without soul, even in Maine, but Dark Shadows pulls it off.
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Would not the 18th-century Barnabas’ reaction to African-Americans running around free have been offensive? “Why aren’t you picking cotton? Who’s your master?”
We haven’t seen the movie — my Significant Other is offended by the heavy-handed mockery of a fondly-remembered series — but could not Burton, satirizing the series, have chosen to maintain its all-white nature? I couldn’t commit to watching it regularly, but saw nary a hint of an African-American.
Oh, wait, I can Google; “blacks in dark shadows tv series”:
Instead ran into “Who Was Gay In The Original “Dark Shadows” TV Series?”
( http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=11378741#page:showThread,11378741 ), where we can read “The easier question would be, who wasn’t gay on the Dark Shadows original series. Dark Shadows and Edge of Night were two of gayest sets in NYC in the 60s and 70s and that is saying a lot.” And, names are named!
…But no hint of into to the original query.
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James says:
Barnabas has slam-bang physical battles with his former lover and innocent people including a work crew and a group of campers are indiscriminately murdered, yet you are worried that your 8 year old might lose his innocence over a few references to oral sex?
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Well, this America, where violence is OK and sex obscene, not Europe…
