Each episode was raw, riveting, emotional. The actors and actresses were cast perfectly against their past and future selves. The plot starts slow and dials up by the mid of season one, heating up to a feverish pace at the end of Season two. It is one of tv's finest/smartest/deepest shows/foreign shows ever. The writers and director/s really knoecked it out of this world! Litterally! I pray Season 3 comes soon and beyond!!
DARK S02 (2019) REVIEW ⏱
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:scroll: Plot : A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town Winden, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families and leads to unconventional happenings.
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:man:⚖ Review : After S01, S02 is still bizzare but most addictive at the same time. The characters evolve, drama and tension and Mysteries unravel like none you have seen in S01. Science Fiction at its exhilarating best. This seasons draws more towards the inevitable apocalypse which all wants to avoid. It's Still creepy and confusing but engaging as always. . Characters do not typically have conflicts or goals beyond trying to figure out what’s going on. But that search for answers is all the dramatic impetus a show like Dark needs.
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:thumbsup:Goods : The Narrative on how everything is linked keeps you on edge of your seats throughout.
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:thumbsdown: Bads : It's Addictive.
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:fire: Final Rating : 9/10
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:white_check_mark: Recommendation : S03 Out on June 27, 2020. You won't want to miss this one.
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When I first started it, my expectation was low. But man, did I love it? Recommended
Don`t be put off by this being a foreign language tv show. Its really worth the time. A really good show about time travel.
Brilliant. Lies, cheating, murder, mystery, time travel, unexpected plot twists. Watch it!
The Beginning is the end and the End is the beginning !
I consider myself an educated viewer than can grasp complicated plots but to even then was confusing at times with ever changing timelines and cast for the same character ; on top of that when a new world was introduced it was even agastly
S1 started well with mystery missing children and the overlapping timeliness with bodies dropping by and a mystery on what purpose they were killed with main purpose to graps the changes in Wisden !!
S2 started to overall all three timelines and despite the complications it seem to go somewhere with a mission to find an origin to undo the apocalypse
S3 is where it unhinges with overlapping works and Adam & Eve fighting for supermacy it gets boring and confusing at the same time and i gaveup on understanding the reason and just winged it from here
I spent my New Years weekend of 2023 hoping to watch a critically acclaimed masterpiece but I would have rather traded with something cheeerful and honestly didnt think it would take me 4 days to finish this show.
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.
The show is a bit of a brain teaser and it can be hard to remember the characters and their relationships. It's a great show to watch if you like to analyze a story and its characters. It's probably not a good show to watch if you're looking for mind numbing content that's easy to watch while half asleep.
The production quality and acting are great. The writing is phenomenal considering the complexity involved, and how many other shows screw up similar themes. The end of season 2 opens up season 3 to even increased complexity, which runs the risk of the writers making a mess of things. Still, they've done a great job so far so if anyone is going to do it right, it's probably them.
anxiously waiting for season 3 :see_no_evil:
Magnificent ! I did a binge watching. The only negative point of this series is that you have to stay focused all the time. A moment of distraction and we quickly lose the thread between the different versions of the characters. Despite certain temporal paradoxes, this series is devoured. Highly season 3
I have a complaint. This series keeps your eyes glued to the screen, and won't let go! I just loved it. I keep searching for good quality sci-fi, and most times when there's nothing to watch, Netflix delivers! There was Russian Doll, and now, the second season of this wonderful series. This season feels a lot more polished, a lot better edited, and a much tighter leash on the overall storytelling adds that much more of a zing. Now need to go get some shut-eye before Stranger things drops next month ;)
Just give me the season 2 dammit
.GREAT SERIES ONE OF MY TOP 5 FOR SUBJECT SPACE TIME TRAVEL .ACTING VERY GOOD IS WORTH TO SEE
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the dark..
It's a nope for me after chapter 2 of S2. Sorry, I was digging the concept, right before the encounter with "the thing".
DARK (2017) S01 REVIEW ⏱
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:scroll: Plot : A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town Winden, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families and leads to unconventional happenings.
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:man:⚖ Review : Dark by Netflix is a German show is arguably the best of scripts turned reality in reel world. Dark is difficult to watch but at the same time infectious enough to stop watching it. The Mystery and Eerie Environment and the Goofy Background Music elevates the atmosphere around you and keeps you hooked. Though the story takes time to set it's tone but leaves you with questions and more questions after each episode which you become desperate to get answers for. The narrative demands your patience and your brain. It's a show where you make your own theories to predict the next twist. Dark is a puzzle to be solved. Dark is gripping, captivating and true to its title.
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:thumbsup:Goods : The Narrative of script by Baran bo odar is magnificent. The Screenplay and Cinematography with the Outstanding BGM Sets the mood from get go.
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:thumbsdown: Bads : Tests your patience. Not a Entertaining Show but a Challenging show to understand and deep dive into.
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:fire: Final Rating : 8.5/10
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:white_check_mark: Recommendation : A Must Watch for someone who is looking for something fresh and unique. A Brilliant Show.. Season 2 Here I Come..
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Loved it! Well made! Looking forward to season 2!
I love this series... thank goodness it has been renewed for season 2, although with netflix we most likely will have to wait another year before it's released. Germany does pump out some very good film and television, the next I'm looking forward too is Deutschland '86.
Fantastic series! It's a little hard to keep track of all the characters, but that's part of the fun. It makes you think and pay attention.
The photography is beautiful and the soundtrack matches the mysterious and creepy vibe of the show.
I'd recommend watching it in German with subtitles because then the performances are much more believable. 10/10
Watching the trailer it seemed like a really interesting show. Unfortunately the show itself was not as good in the end. There's too many characters you have to keep track of and you constantly get confused who's who now as people look so alike sometimes. All the scandals, time travel and so on makes you dizzy. Some parts of the story seem really involving but then they kind of screw up and it's not as amazing anymore. Most annoying was the music… the same "thrilling" sound effect for every single scene… even if it's not even remotely thrilling…
Overly convoluted with characters that are difficult to keep track of and very little by way of payoff at the end of the season.
Basically it's a huge paradox and Noah's story doesn't make any sense. The show has its moments, but I had higher expectations to be honest.
Being married to a german man I've seen my fair share of international movies dubbed to german and it is absolutely obnoxious. I am very pleased to see that that hasn't been done here.
Germany isn't exactly famous for producing good tv shows or films - with a few brilliant exceptions - and I was, if not intrigued, then at least interested to see how this turned out. So far I've only seen three episodes and it's not bad. A bit too heavy on the amount of characters one has to keep up with and it gets close to impossible when one then has to keep track of them in two times simultaneously... but so far I find it interesting.
Might have to come back to this and update - for good or for bad. Wir werden sehen...
Time for an update and I am very pleased to say that this is good. This is actually VERY good. It does get even more confusing, in a way, when even more time lines are introduced, but by then I had a pretty good idea of who was when and where... and after ten episodes I am hooked. Pretty, pretty please - produce some more of this show... because after all, those last seconds were a mighty cliffhanger indeed.
Watched season 1. Excellent acting, music and cinematography but unfortunately there were way too many characters, together with 3 different timelines, which just made it very confusing. I found myself reading an explainer after finishing, which itself was effortful to wrap my head around. I can see why people love this show but it's not for me. It takes too much effort to understand and is somewhat dissatisfying in that sense.
worth watching 10/10 from me i liked it all
It's a small town drama centered around a child disappearance, with some detective/mystery elements and the occasional sci-fi element in the first half of the season, and then the sci-fi/time travel element is prominent a lot more in the second half.
It's not at all the grand thing everyone praises it to be.
While a lot of time travel stories are unncessarily overly-complex, and this is no exception, it does manage to weave most of it's plot threads and elements together decent enough.
One of the problems is that there's sometimes too many characters, and it's combined with multiple time periods, that most of the characters don't get the focus that they need. And most if not all of them are not likeable.
For example, the show quickly introduces boring teenage drama and an affair plot. I hate these, because most stories involving them are rubbish. And you put them in a time travel plot? No.
What makes it worse, is that there's quite a bit of teenage drama and focus on affairs/love triangles. Stupid.
There even highschool drama in multiple time periods. They even throw in an obsession plot.
There simply isn't much time travel plot being weaved in the show in the first half, and so most of what's left is small town drama. So both the small town drama and the time travel stuff end up not being that interesting.
The plot is stretched out. The romance/relationship storylines are boring.
There's not a lot of intelligence in regards to the time travel or dialogue. It's sometimes boringly predictable or generic.
Too many questions are raised and not enough answers, And often the answers we do get are stupid. There's also too much cryptic dialogue. Some cryptic dialogue is ok to do, but when you too much you look arrogant.
The first half of the season focuses more on the small town drama than the case about children being taken and killed. And yeah part of the small town drama is connected to the time travel shenanigans, but it's not a lot connected to what you are witnessing. It's just boring normal drama for most of the season. They wasted a lot of the potential.
The storyline goes into some strange and dumb directions, not even related to the time travel, like the obsession plot.
The method of time travel in the show is also kinda stupid, It reminds me of the method in Back to the Future, but without the cool factor, and in that movie it was all about a whacky adventure and having fun with light sci-fi elements, so it worked. Here it just seems dumb, where it's all about the serious atmosphere. It feels similar to the same method of time travel as Back to the Future, except in this show it's crawling down a tunnel and opening a hatch and then you've time travelled. The other method is a device that makes a portal that makes you time travel. That's it. Oh and it was built by someone in the 20th century with 20th century parts. Oh and only he can make it. As bad as that is, it gets worse later on, as it's revealed he didn't really make it, but was delivered the plans by someone else in the future. Or something. Ugh.
First season masterpiece
Second season very very good
Trird season what's this shit
Too bad, a great idea in fist and second season developed poorly in the last season.
Finished season one. Great show, really well put with heavy atmosphere all along with music that keeps you on your toes. The series focus a great deal on visual and audio. Best to watch it on big screen with good speakers or headset.
The dialogues aren't that fast so the subtitles were easy to follow.
I think it would have been best to have a couple less episodes in the season. At some point, with so much clues you can already guess some twists. Some scenes were a tad too long for my taste.
The cast is phenomenal, the characters and their different versions are so akin, it's almost disturbing, the best I have seen. Great production overall.
Waiting for the new season.
Basically, Dark is the Futurama episode Roswell That Ends Well...
Well...just finished the first episode and do have to say that you shouldn’t let the language matter close your mind! Very impressive series actually! ;)
You need to watch 7 episodes at least before appreciating the show,AND learn all the names of the characters from the beginning or you will be lost
I expected a lot more disappointment for me. The story is good, but the processing, directing, etc. It's very weak or rather very bad and I don't understand how this series can have such a high rating. with closed eyes I rate 6 out of 10 and only for the story otherwise I would give 5 out of 10 It's a pity that such a good looking series spoiled like this, but what to expect from Netflix I have not seen anything good from them, not even in terms of movies 90% is bad mainly because they want such money for it. Sorry my English is bad.
just started watching this amazing series here in Australia
..I've only watched three episodes so far, superb quality acting,great visuals(very stunning Germany), definitely a series to watch,thanks Netflix
1 1/2 episodes was more than enough. Plenty of shock noise/music every so often to make sure you're awake or to 'scare' you.
None of the characters are interesting and the story is just meh.
Have no idea why so many people on Trakt love this, but then lots love CSI, the Kardashians and Big Brother so there's no accounting for bad taste.
0/10
Pfff, at first I had it booked as "not overwhelming but at least it's got time travel and a neat soundtrack" but after dragging along with weird dialogues and painfully awkward acting up to season 3 I've reached the point where I don't know if I can go on. "Stranger Things - but cheaper and less awesome" much?? I'm absolutely not convinced. Maybe I just can't bear german acting and storytelling, idk…
DARK S03 FINALE (2020) SPOILER FREE REVIEW ⏱
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:man:⚖ Review : Dark Season 3 is fitting conclusion of what started as gamble by NETFLIX in 2017. The Series saw success as fans loved it. Season 3 doesn't disappoint you in any way. This series will definitely go into my top 5 favorite science fiction shows. The edge of the seat and engaging premise with plot twists at every breath this series has proved itself unique. Season 3 is the longest and takes time to settle , the mysteries and characters take us to intriguing timelines with script that ties everything together in the end across Parallel Worlds. Lisa Vicari as Martha is the highlight of the final season and has given a brilliant performance. Dark is an experience and needs attention which keeps you longing for more with each of its episodes. If someone asks you for a Science Fiction which is mind boggling , Dark is the Answer.
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:thumbsup:Goods : The Sound Design and The Cinematography sticks with you after the shows has ended. The Characters and Mysteries revolve inside of your brains. This speaks volumes of how good it is.
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:fire: Final Rating : 9/10
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:white_check_mark: Recommendation : Rating Speaks for itself. Take a deep breathe and stream it on Netflix.
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Be a 10 if the words matched the mouths lol the voices they chose kiiiiiilllll me sometimes wtf
Fantastic epic time travel tv show.
Splendid actors throw 3 generations.
without a damned doubt one of the greatest "Web Shows" in a foreign language (the very first one for me) that I watched and since I don't have "Netflix", then luckily for me about 3 and a half years ago I found a website called "o2tvseries.co" where it had the whole series to binge; but unfortunately "Season 2" isn't dubbed.
First of all. this show is not all sci fi
Shout by godforhireBlockedParent2019-12-15T21:05:29Z
One of the best shows on Netflix.