Marriage is a fine institution: it means that, having created four squabbling Collins siblings, the writers can have double the fun with four Collins spouses. We have learned that Quentin's wife went mad after Quentin walked out on her, and that Edward's wife followed Quentin to Egypt, where no doubt she is digging up an army of mummies to invade Collinwood. No doubt Judith and Carl have spouses and we shall learn equally fascinating things about them.
Denise Nickerson is always good, but I can't stand Nora's hair. And why are her bangs straight? It doesn't fit with all those curls.
Interesting how they are playing up the sexual effect of Barnabas' bite more with Charity than with any other character.Her reaction is really a departure from the cold prudish Charity we first met in the previous episode, a real throwback to the Dracula novel (and the Broadway play, for those who remember Frank Langella in that).
Yes indeed, it's very romantic, if you're into that sort of romance. A handsome man comes to Charity's bedroom, bites her, tells her "You are under my power now, Charity," doesn't even tell her his name, and leaves.
I never understand why Barnabas bit Charity. It ought to have been so that he can get Charity to be nicer to poor little Rachel, but he doesn't say a word about Rachel. So apparently he bit Charity simply because he couldn't resist, which means that he is two-timing Rachel, and which suggests that if Angelique had been a little more patient in 1795, Barnabas would have ended up sleeping with her again even though he was married to Josette. Except that I think the business with Charity is a result of his vampire nature, which was probably completely alien to him before Angelique cursed him. Which takes me back to "Why can't he
fight his vampire nature?" It's so easy to condemn people who give in to temptations that I myself don't feel.
Edward needs a little padding. Louis Edmonds has kept himself in very nice shape, but Victorian stalwart Edward is surely too fond of his heavy Victorian dinners to maintain a boyish figure. Now
there's a temptation I can understand!