Or skippable episodes like Stranger Things. Perhaps the best part of Dark is that, unlike other so-called 'prestige shows', there's no dip in quality. You want to pepper your watertight plot, brought to life via dazzling performances and stellar writing with allusions to greek mythology and classic literature? Who am I to say no? Go for your life. In most science fiction this would be enough to make my eyes detach from their socket and roll all the way backwards into my brain, but Dark earns its delusions of grandeur by actually being good enough to sustain them. It infuses its plot with multiple explicit references to Ariadne and the bible. It's unrelenting.ĭark asks you to sincerely care about what's happening on-screen. Unlike other time travel shows like, say, Outlander - which revels in camp and sort of begs you to watch ironically - Dark takes itself completely seriously. Probably the worst thing you could say about Dark is that it's pretentious. Here comes that hyperbole: This TV show is a goddamn miracle. I've spent three whole seasons waiting for Dark to drop the ball and collapse beneath its own weight, but it hasn't. Dark's plot is complex to the point where I make a sport of waiting for it to completely fall apart. It's a show that juggles the risks that come with time travel narratives with ease. It earns these twists by also being a delicately written study of broken familial inter-relationships and small-town claustrophobia. It does complex, interweaving plot twists on a level that makes Westworld look like a pretend-clever show for children. Before long Dark is a show that operates across multiple different time zones and dimensions.ĭark has everything. But in this show the child hasn't escaped to a parallel universe, but a different time 30 years in the past. Much like Stranger Things - the show it's most frequently compared to - Dark's first season focuses almost exclusively on the search for a missing child. The Stranger Things comparison makes sense, but Dark is a very different show.ĭark, at its core, is a mystery series.

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