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- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The disappearance of two children in a German town leads to secrets of four families and a link to something supernatural in 1986 in this mystery thriller written by Jantje Friese and directed by Baran bo Odar.
Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Dark
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 1, 2017
72
8.7
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Summary The disappearance of two children in a German town leads to secrets of four families and a link to something supernatural in 1986 in this mystery thriller written by Jantje Friese and directed by Baran bo Odar.
Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
72
67% Positive
12 Reviews
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33% Mixed
6 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
72
67% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The season-three set pieces are gorgeous, as the German show remains fantastic on a technical level. The camerawork goes from feeling hectic and nervy to slow, steady, and measured several times throughout each episode. It’s disorienting, just like the layered narrative it’s depicting. Hoffman’s performance continues to be top-tier, especially from a young actor. ... One of the most mind-melting shows on television, and possibly the most unique Netflix original, “Dark” finishes its run with peak writing, shocking conclusions, and a bittersweet sense of finality.
Dark's moody, mind-bending, and emotionally resonant narrative often feels like it's pulling inspiration from something closer to David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 1,288 User Ratings
8.7
88% Positive
1138 Ratings
1138 Ratings
5% Mixed
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
6% Negative
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 1,288 User Ratings
8.7
88% Positive
1138 Ratings
1138 Ratings
5% Mixed
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
6% Negative
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
Easily in my all times top 10 for the plot, the atmosphere and the characters!
Please, don't rate it badly because you don't understand the plot! This show was short in German, if you don't speak it fluently add subtitles in your language, don't use dubbing in english...
And stop whining if the music is too loud and sometime cover the dialogues... it's on purpose! (Read the subtitles If you must...)
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Dark is easily the best show that I have ever seen. It is truly a masterpiece. The acting, score and cinematography are all great. I'm a huge Sci-fi fan, but generally don't love time travel stories. My only problem is that I have no idea where to go from here. It's changed the way that I view fictional television and I'd be incredibly impressed if anyone ever tops it. It's a shame 1899 was canceled, which is something that changed the way I view Netflix, or maybe Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese could have outdone themselves.
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The narrative is forbiddingly elaborate on purpose. What matters is how it feels to the members of this exclusive little club – and Dark, with its absolute sincerity and lush production, is a luxurious myth.
A consistently engaging genre effort in its own right, employing unsettling production values and an enormous cast of well-drawn characters for a narratively splintered investigation into questions of fate and free will. ... Come for the surface similarities to Stranger Things, stay for the unique time-travel insanity.
It’s beautiful, mysterious, and a little bit maddening, and you’d want to take in every little second of the show even if it wasn’t in German with English subtitles, because every aspect of it matters.
I grew initially frustrated at how little Dark was showing me about its characters and how little investment I was feeling in them, though the middle of the season produced some sympathy that I can't explain without spoiling the twists.
Dark feels strangely one-note, elevated purely by the increasing eccentricity of the plot, which eventually tip-toes into the science-fiction realm when time travel becomes a major element of the story. The less said about that the better.
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This serie will blow your mind.
My final rate is: 10
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I would love to see more German shows, but this one has disappointed me big times.
You'll hear from all other reviews that the story is complex and characters are good, but the story, though complex, is only seemingly so, plot twists and different timelines are stacked on one another haphazardly to the point where none of it makes sense, and what one of the reviewers here called 'pseudo intellectual babble' doesn't help to find it - and there's a lot of it, really, since characters are 75% of the time either staring at each other vacantly or converse in-depth about time loops, black holes and all other stuff that's pseudo scientific.
The characters? The characters are weak. Apart from the first 4-5 episodes you'll never get to learn them any closer to get attached or to empathize with them; from the very start and until the very end they are only characters scripted to act as they're supposed to and are never real people with real emotions or real lives. The same applies to the whole town of Winden and surroundings; it's never felt alive and populated, it takes various shapes for the sake of the plot and, although it's hinted throughout the show that the town is linked directly to what's going on, it actually never does play any role in the events, it's never present, it's dummy and it's faux.
At last, what I will never forgive the creators, is how they totally abandon their own plot lines. I'm not going to spatter spoilers, but one of the main questions, the predominant mystery, the thing that is the starting point to the whole set of events is NEVER explained or showed, they just omitted it as if lives of the disappearing kids don't matter a thing. I think it is unforgivable to leave some of the knots tied, especially when seasons two and three are all about 'untying knots'.
Summing it all up, I can conclude that, despite the creative effort, Dark proved to be unconvincing, delusively deep, disconcerting, embarrassing and frustrating. I wish they had decided on whether they want it to be something serious, like 'Twin Peaks', or whether they just want to throw some time-travel-black-hole-Chernobyl-Einstein-loop **** in people's faces, because it feels like it was intended to be the former in the first couple episodes, but eventually it grew into the latter.
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A pretty basic family drama, blown up and scattered by the question "what if?", in which it gets lost completely. Sprinkled with pseudo-intellectual babbling, supported by overly dramatic music, it trys extremly hard to be smart, dooming it to fail on that account, only to become uneccessarily complicated and confusing. A show for people who consider themselves to be sophisticated and tasteful.
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Production Company:
- Netflix
- W&B Television
Initial Release Date: Dec 1, 2017
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
German Television Academy Awards
• 3 Wins & 13 Nominations
Golden Camera, Germany
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 3 Nominations
