my personal voodoo with the show is strange...
i'm not otherwise remotely interested in vampires,witches,the occult and so on.
but something about the show caught my fancy when i stumbled upon it on the sci-fi channel about five years ago.my audio and visual sensory perceptions were stimulated and intrigued.
visually the sets,the costumes("why do these women who live in this nowhere town in maine have up-to-the-minute sixties fashions and hairstyles?" i asked myself) and something as random as how the closing credits might linger on something as ordinary as a telephone.
audio the stunning opening and closing themes and other musical cues composed by robert cobert,the silly sound effects,but what most struck(and strikes)me was the quality of the writing,the articulation of the characters,the perfect,crisp diction.with many of the actors being theater trained the way the characters express themselves often comes across as grand and even almost regal.
so to answer the question at hand watching d.s. didn't improve my vocabulary per se but the quality of the writing and the actors articulation of it are very much part of the recipe for my fondness.