Dark Shadows - London Bridges

 Boy, this song is about to drive me as mad as Maggie Evans, still held captive in her cell for something like years it feels like at this point. Dark Shadows could reallllllly drag out a storyline. Phew. Willie realizes that Barnabas will dispose of Maggie if she doesn't quit acting like a "babbling child". Gee, I wonder if that has anything to do with Barnabas and Willie keeping Maggie stuck in an isolated cell days and days on end. Willie really just yells and freaks out at Maggie who insists she has a special friend who visits her. He is losing his ability to keep Maggie alive as Barnabas visits her at the beginning of the episode and considers any chance of her being Josette as hopeless. If Maggie can't be Josette then keeping her alive is pointless to Barnabas. If she were at least sane perhaps that would be enough to try and push her towards adopting Josette as a new identity. Once Barnabas calls her Maggie and leaves her, that signaled to him all was lost. Willie has his work cut out for him because Maggie's isolation and the emergence of ghost girl Sarah has placed him in quite a predicament. No shaking of Maggie or barking at her to get it together seems to work for Willie. Because when you close that cell door and leave her again, the madness will just encroach even more. 

Sarah visits Maggie, actually talks to her, plays "pitch the ball" and sings "London Bridges". 

Falling down, falling down...

2.5/5

***Episode 258