As a German I tend to avoid German movies and shows, as their quality rarely is convincing. But I was constantly confronted with the hype surrounding Dark, so I gave it a chance. Season One was okayish, not spectacular though. Time travels, some mystery. Nothing we hadn't already seen. Season Two was actually very good, had several emotional highlights. Season Three was imho a clusterfuck but for some reason beloved by almost everyone else.
But seriously, besides the rare emotional moments this series was an endless series of people gaining knowledge either by someone else telling them for various and absurd reasons or gaining it directly out of nowhere. Example: How the hell did Claudia learn about the third world? How does she know what initiated the process in that third world? Yeah, "she figured it out over 33 years". Marvelous.
It's also an endless series of "We have to repeat all these things again to reach a distant point where we might change something about it."
These two elements are pretty much half of the series. The rest are fillers of people being dumb and/or evil.
So I'll rate this 7/10, for season 2. I wouldn't recommend the show though.
Review by SilrogVIP 4BlockedParent2022-11-24T23:07:55Z
As a German I tend to avoid German movies and shows, as their quality rarely is convincing. But I was constantly confronted with the hype surrounding Dark, so I gave it a chance.
Season One was okayish, not spectacular though. Time travels, some mystery. Nothing we hadn't already seen.
Season Two was actually very good, had several emotional highlights.
Season Three was imho a clusterfuck but for some reason beloved by almost everyone else.
But seriously, besides the rare emotional moments this series was an endless series of people gaining knowledge either by someone else telling them for various and absurd reasons or gaining it directly out of nowhere.
Example: How the hell did Claudia learn about the third world? How does she know what initiated the process in that third world? Yeah, "she figured it out over 33 years". Marvelous.
It's also an endless series of "We have to repeat all these things again to reach a distant point where we might change something about it."
These two elements are pretty much half of the series.
The rest are fillers of people being dumb and/or evil.
So I'll rate this 7/10, for season 2. I wouldn't recommend the show though.