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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary Dr. Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham) is one of the passengers on a ship bound for New York City in 1899 that comes across a ship reported missing months ago in this mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar.
Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
1899
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 17, 2022
68
6.5
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Summary Dr. Maura Franklin (Emily Beecham) is one of the passengers on a ship bound for New York City in 1899 that comes across a ship reported missing months ago in this mystery series from Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar.
Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
68
58% Positive
7 Reviews
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33% Mixed
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8% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
68
58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It succeeds far more often than it sinks, and with the sixth episode (“The Pyramid”) yielding some of the most powerful moments and revelations thus far, there’s little doubt that 1899 will be altogether satisfying when it finally reaches its destination.
An intriguing, densely layered puzzle-box mystery that defies easy categorisation but somehow works.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 153 User Ratings
6.5
58% Positive
89 Ratings
89 Ratings
21% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
21% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 153 User Ratings
6.5
58% Positive
89 Ratings
89 Ratings
21% Mixed
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
21% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
1899 surprises over time. The biggest mistake is not giving time to the series and dropping it after watching the first episodes. 1899 is a true smart Sci-Fi. That Sci-Fi, which is almost gone. First of all, you should not expect from the series what Dark once gave. These are completely different series that give different emotions. 1899 is when you watch 5 hour-long movie and do not understand what is happening and consider yourself an idiot. These are the very emotions that the right Sci-Fi should give.
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On the other hand, this is an expertly-crafted puzzle which, from episode four on, goes to truly mind-bending places. It isn’t for the easily-bored or anyone partial to zoning out in front of the television. But for those who enjoy drama that challenges as much as it dazzles, 1899 is a date worth keeping.
For a show to be successful in the long run, there must be characters to care about with meaningful stories. And while 1899 succeeds in building a puzzle that’s at the same time brilliant and accessible, it fails to have us cheering for the future of its best characters. When the credits roll in the season finale, so much has been subverted that both their victories and failures have no further purpose.
The story doesn’t particularly move quickly. Maybe as we dig into the back stories of the other passengers, things will pick up. But we get wary of shows that choose long shots of an abandoned ship over character development or plot movement, and 1899 will very easily slip into a too-languid pace if it’s not careful.
This is several shows at once, and part of the puzzle lies in figuring out which one it wants to be. ... Despite an often witty interpolation of 20th century pop (“The Killing Moon,” “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” “White Rabbit”), the prevailing humorlessness becomes wearisome after a while: as with the recently canceled “Westworld,” the game leaves you not with a smile, but a furrowed brow.
Ahead of the predictable and unsatisfying cliffhanger, the series slows to a crawl, and there’s an inescapable sense that it’s built every inch of its reveal-driven plotting around a mystery that can’t even manage to be very mysterious.
Unlike Dark, whose great adventure we were allowed to know in all its magnitude, we were only presented with a third of the story of 1899. The creators of Dark assure you that the time invested will be rewarded, each of the 8 episodes of the series keeps you interested in what they are telling you and the ending solves the "main" mystery of the season.
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Pretty cool - awesome twist at the end. It becomes somewhat repetitive and almost...silly about 3/4ths through. After trying to watch all of dark, though - I feel like this would have petered out about halfway through the 2nd season had it been made. Dark became unwatchable in the 3rd season.
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Entertaining, but not mind-blowing. I'll watch Season 2. I enjoy listening to foreign languages, and the mystery of what's going on is ok. I don't know why characters insist on talking at each other for so long when they know the other person doesn't even speak the same language. :-D
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Production Company:
- Dark Ways
- Netflix
Initial Release Date: Nov 17, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
German Television Academy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
