After first season I thought the show was needlessly complicated with its ever shifting perspectives, jumping from marital problems of one family to marital problems of another family to various other people and their problems, so on and so forth. I just wanted to follow Jonas, unravel the mystery along with him.
How narrow minded was that thinking.
Dark is a show unlike any other, regardless of the genre. It's not the intricate family tree and the myriad of characters that each have their own part to play in the story, big or small. It's not the seemingly wrong understanding of paradoxes that the show seems to embrace from the get go nor the philosophical themes it tackles throughout. It's how all of it falls into place when the crucial piece of information is revealed in the late stages of the third season, one that puts all the aforementioned pieces in the right place to form a complete puzzle that is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. That's when the intricacy and what I wrongly believed to be needless complication take its true form, a storytelling masterpiece.
When creative freedom is handed to creative people, they create a show like Dark. If that conclusion is the only one Netflix brass conclude from this show, the future of their platform is bright. Dark is developed with foresight, planned out from first to third season with a concrete beginning, middle and an end, all of it executed flawlessly... and it shows.
Among many other themes it tackles, Dark is the Romeo and Juliet story of the 21st century, and the 19th and the 20th. It's a tragic story of loss and futile attempts to change the past while making the same mistakes over and over again. It's also a heartwarming love story, one anchored in family, other between a boy and a girl. One gives a warm and pure sense of fulfillment, the other leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.
Review by SwaggerBlockedParent2021-08-12T23:52:17Z
What a journey. What a marvelous journey.
After first season I thought the show was needlessly complicated with its ever shifting perspectives, jumping from marital problems of one family to marital problems of another family to various other people and their problems, so on and so forth. I just wanted to follow Jonas, unravel the mystery along with him.
How narrow minded was that thinking.
Dark is a show unlike any other, regardless of the genre. It's not the intricate family tree and the myriad of characters that each have their own part to play in the story, big or small. It's not the seemingly wrong understanding of paradoxes that the show seems to embrace from the get go nor the philosophical themes it tackles throughout. It's how all of it falls into place when the crucial piece of information is revealed in the late stages of the third season, one that puts all the aforementioned pieces in the right place to form a complete puzzle that is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. That's when the intricacy and what I wrongly believed to be needless complication take its true form, a storytelling masterpiece.
When creative freedom is handed to creative people, they create a show like Dark. If that conclusion is the only one Netflix brass conclude from this show, the future of their platform is bright. Dark is developed with foresight, planned out from first to third season with a concrete beginning, middle and an end, all of it executed flawlessly... and it shows.
Among many other themes it tackles, Dark is the Romeo and Juliet story of the 21st century, and the 19th and the 20th. It's a tragic story of loss and futile attempts to change the past while making the same mistakes over and over again. It's also a heartwarming love story, one anchored in family, other between a boy and a girl. One gives a warm and pure sense of fulfillment, the other leaves a bitter taste in your mouth.
A perfect match. Never believe anything else.