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2017 - 2020

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A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families. (imdb)

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Created by:

Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese

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Stephan Kampwirth, Sebastian Rudolph, Jördis Triebel, Anne Ratte-Polle, Maja Schöne, Karoline Eichhorn, Mark Waschke, Anatole Taubman, Lisa Vicari, Louis Hofmann, Andreas Pietschmann, Oliver Masucci

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2017 - 2020

Drama, Sci-fi

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1h 0m

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28 Jul 2020

High quality and an intriguing first season are all but wasted by the second and third. Audiences that are paying attention (and perhaps taking notes) will realize they're given more convoluted nonsense than actual substance. Many of the poor plot decisions are obviously contrived for shock value, but overuse and inconsistency render them mostly ineffective. The dry, humorless, unlikable cast adds to the disappointment of what would have been an amazing series in the hands of better writers.

28 Jul 2020

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20 Jul 2020

I got really tired of the terrible sound effects. It was also unpleasant that most of the story is made up of riddles inside riddles. I very much disliked how this movie is put together. There were several very brief moments of brilliance but always those moments are surrounded by disjointed and segmented subplots. It jumps around far too often and has too many unresolved paradoxes that ruin the immersion. It's a very heavy-handed production. Sometimes interesting, but ultimately not worthwhile.

20 Jul 2020

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20 Dec 2017

Pretty durchwachsen. Partially awesome, partially retarded. Shitty ending. Got some really cool German actors in it I've never heard of. Not that I've heard of many. Once saw Anne Ratte-Polle in a play in 2009 or so. She was amazing. Still a fan.

20 Dec 2017

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28 Aug 2021

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Perfect everything. Writing does not get better than this, not in any medium. This is what it's all been leading to. Death is incomprehensible, but you can make peace with it.

28 Aug 2021

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30 Sep 2020

Dark is infested with plot-holes and reeks of stale content stacked in a manner that is nothing but pseudointellectual.

30 Sep 2020

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04 Jun 2020

German creepy 80's nostalgia similar to Donnie Darko mixed with Twin Peaks & Chernobyl, although there is an appropriately Teutonic lack of humor about the proceedings. Great soundtrack but the ambient score is often obnoxiously loud and overbearing. Score would be higher if the characters were more distinctive and allowed more time to breathe, rather than serving the beats of the plot. Also season 3 is a fairly big disappointment; S1 & S2 would get about 85 while S3 is maybe 50.

04 Jun 2020

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18 Apr 2020

S1 set up an interesting story and was great, S2 followed up on that promise for the most part until the last few minutes of the ending and then S3 comes in, undermines everything this series tried to do and make us care about. I personally wouldn't recommend investing time into this show because none of the characters are really developed at all, it resorts to torture porn and subverting expectations in the cheapest way possible in the last season, comparable to how terrible GoT's S8 was.

18 Apr 2020

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22 Oct 2019

How come a decent series like this, with very annoying and cheap casting, stupid, repeatitive, nonscary music and ridiculous words, has been able to get such a high score?

22 Oct 2019

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16 Jan 2018

24 hours (24!) of tv to tell you that being obsessed makes you sad.

16 Jan 2018

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27 Dec 2017

Doesn't really have a reason to exist and knows it.

27 Dec 2017

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08 Sep 2025

Germans are so afraid of nuclear power plants, they think they can open a black hole through which the village children disappear into the past or future. Even worse, these events turn everyone in the village into one-note self-serious dupes with a talent for the pathetic. I get it better now why Germany has closed them all! The composer systematically goes through his whole cinematic_boom.wav library. A new one every 10 seconds. Impact alert!

08 Sep 2025

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08 Jun 2021

I will rant and rave about how amazing this series is until the day I die. It's impossible to really describe. It is one of the few TV series that might get better with each repeat viewing. Dark manages to capture all the mystery and interconnectedness and storytelling of a TV show like Lost, and instead of disappointing, nails it right on the fucking head. The show could have used longer seasons to develop characters more, slower pacing, and there were some fluff plot twists, but overall A+

08 Jun 2021

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05 Jan 2021

I liked the first season, but the show drags and gets increasingly overcooked, overly tangled and ridiculous. I kept expecting for someone to proclaim they're their own grandmother from another dimension. I quit halfway through season 3 because of sheer boredom.

05 Jan 2021

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24 Sep 2020

I endured till S02E01. Too much atmosphere, too little substance. It very much wants to be the next Twin Peaks, but even Lost is better. +1 for Agnes Obel's music (as much as cinema in the style of a music video clip gets on my nerves).

24 Sep 2020

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16 Aug 2020

This is the perfect show for the small target audience of people who enjoy hegelian dialectics AND sci fi.

16 Aug 2020

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31 Jul 2020

The fact that this is the highest averaged rated show on IMDb ever taught me once and for all not to trust IMDb. Poor acting, a sometimes laughable script, every turn perfectly predictable

31 Jul 2020

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17 Jul 2020

Time-travel done in an interesting way with some fantastically morbid and paradoxical results, like a mother birthing her own mother. The production is pretty great with some uniformly good cinematography and decent use of CGI. The casting is uncanny, able to age and de-age characters in an incredibly believable way and mostly good performances from everyone. I was never really that emotionally invested. The labyrinthine plot buckles under it's own weight and the series ends with a whimper.

17 Jul 2020

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05 Jul 2020

It has a million bugs and got really out of hand at points, but in the end, the circle was completed / broken neatly. I'll remember this as a decent attempt for a Netflix show.

05 Jul 2020

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03 Nov 2019

Slow pacing plot tail chasing maze with non-convincing behaviour of characters and abundant ominuous music in normal situations. Characters are not developed enough and events don't make much effect. Also sprinkled with cliche B movie scenes such as meaningless sex scenes and actors faces covered in blood for no reason. I still finished it... because I was too annoyed by episodes never providing enough information. Watching show out of annoyance, not the best.

03 Nov 2019

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01 Oct 2019

S1: 70 | S2: 60 | S3: 60 | Pretty enjoyable if you put in the attention. Also, unpopular opinion, but S2 unfortunately introduces a lack of importance in 95% of the events we see, and the fact that most future decisions from the characters are just wasted efforts. Here’s to hoping that S3 breaks that mold somehow. Edit: for the most part, it doesn’t, and when it does, it’s still not nearly as good as S1. Would’ve been better if S2&3 were merged into one.

01 Oct 2019

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13 Jan 2019

A bit slow in the start and could be a bit more streamlined but definitely worth the wait/watch. S1/2 However gets overly complicated in season 3 and hard to follow at times. Ending was pretty disappointing.

13 Jan 2019

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03 Oct 2018

Interesting series, but i had to stop, the sound is fucking annoying.. What were they thinking

03 Oct 2018

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23 Sep 2018

I had a really hard time staying awake, but I love time travel stories, and I started warming to it toward the end of season 1. (1 season)

23 Sep 2018

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19 Aug 2018

Starts off so promising and starts to fall apart as the mystery gets resolved.

19 Aug 2018

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09 Apr 2018

Incredibly intricately worked out series that becomes almost impossibly complicated and convoluted by the final episodes of the third season. Maintains a single tone of tragic melancholy across the whole journey and consistent for all the characters, which is both a plus (that's life) and a minus (it's kind of exhausting). Everything is meant to be extremely significant, but it is all cleverly constructed so that the years 1933 to 1945 never need be mentioned. The effort, though, is commendable.

09 Apr 2018

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23 Feb 2018

Oh my god it's so. boring. Lazy writing and poor character development.

23 Feb 2018

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17 Jan 2018

I was somewhat disappointed to see in the final episodes that this was going to be a series, I'd prefer a tight self contained story. Main question is whether the time travel is going to go non-deterministic or not, or if the show will become a bunch of nonsense like time travel tends to do if not carefully planned out (though granted real unlimited time travel also would make reality incoherent nonsense also, but interesting stories are the point of entertainment). Update- season 2 half filler

17 Jan 2018

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27 Aug 2025

Increíble.

27 Aug 2025

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11 Aug 2025

Awesome timetravel series 👏

11 Aug 2025

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15 May 2025

I really liked in contrast to all the reviews down here somehow...how they made and didn't disclose anything up until last couple of episodes

15 May 2025

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09 Feb 2025

Good.

09 Feb 2025

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25 Oct 2024

Started out really good but gets confusing after a while with all the time travelling to and fro

25 Oct 2024

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06 Oct 2024

One of the best TV series in history

06 Oct 2024

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02 Sep 2024

great beginning, later too much confusion. ending saves it a bit, but just a bit.

02 Sep 2024

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09 Jul 2024

terrible last season, has massively damaged the overall impression of the series

09 Jul 2024

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02 Jul 2024

these 3 minutes of scenes with music 10 min before end of every fucking episode should have been cut. Too many sex scenes. Otherwise 10/10

02 Jul 2024

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23 May 2024

De mis series favoritas, hay que poner mucha atención pero el manejo de todo es impresionante.

23 May 2024

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23 Apr 2024

Extremely convoluted plot, but in the end it all makes sense. All knots are removed and it is really hard to find big plot holes - remember that this a time-travelling series so it usually makes it really hard for the creators to avoid simplifying stuff or omitting explanations. Each season be the last one from the series with no harm to the story. Season 3 introduces too many new concepts, unnecessarily. Could have been a masterpiece if season 3 was just less.

23 Apr 2024

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27 Mar 2024

Got too riddled at one point

27 Mar 2024

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08 Mar 2024

Too heavy and gloomy, feeling trapped in its persistent underlining of something dark and fatal. Fast forwarded half an episode and saw that the boring dysphoria continues all the way through the first couple of episodes. Furthermore, I don't like any of the characters, so I stopped watching.

08 Mar 2024

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06 Jan 2024

Disappointing. Characters are too quickly introduced, not compelling enough. Plot isn't gripping enough despite the events featured. Time travel shenanigans displayed here were already used to better effect in previous works; reveals are often predictable. S1 & the 1st half of S2 are more like a crime/thriller series than scifi and S3 is an AU. Interesting characters ignored. No care/consequences about nuclear radiation exposure. Too much Inception Horn. Nice opening credits, tough.

06 Jan 2024

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28 Dec 2023

I loved it from the first to the last episode. If you love time travel, you'll love this.

28 Dec 2023

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31 Oct 2023

S1: 80/100, S2: 90/100, S3: 80/100

31 Oct 2023

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12 Jun 2023

With an amazing first season and iffy second season, I was hoping the third would close it out with a bang. Unfortunately, the show became insanely redundant, increasing in its complexity without really offering any reward for people paying careful attention. It jumps around way too much, and the characters fall short being likeable, making it just overall difficult to finish.

12 Jun 2023

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28 Apr 2023

It was really catchy from the first episode.

28 Apr 2023

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15 Apr 2023

Dnf - boring. Yes, I was able to follow the characters and plot.

15 Apr 2023

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05 Apr 2023

Couch potato philosophy with black-hole sized plot-holes but I still enjoyed some of it.

05 Apr 2023

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16 Mar 2023

long as fk. Great story and matching actors, not that satisfied with the ending.

16 Mar 2023

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15 Nov 2022

(TV) S1/2: quietly one of my favourite shows on TV. As its name suggests, dark and brooding stuff, with some retro sci-fi flair, and a cut above the usually overwrought euro dramas in all aspects, esp. acting and production design. I appreciate both the languid world-building and characterisation, and at the same time, willingness to employ bonkers plotlines and sequences | S3: convoluted plot now req. a spreadsheet. Points for bravery, but too all-in on nonsense, less drama. | S1:77 S2:78 S3:68

15 Nov 2022

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13 Aug 2022

[through season 3]

13 Aug 2022

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19 May 2022

Hikaye çok iyi de gel gelelim biz anlayamıyoruz.

19 May 2022

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19 Feb 2022

S1 and most of S2 are really wonderful, dark and deep. But S3... jesus. It is just bland, repetitive and completely unengaging. And the pacing is way off. For most of the season nothing happens. And then in the last episode they suddenly learn what they must do, and they also do it in that same episode, no problems whatsoever. The end! It is frustrating because the series showed so much promise in the beginning, but now I really cannot recommend it for anyone.

19 Feb 2022

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11 Jan 2022

this messed me up. like nothing I've ever seen.

11 Jan 2022

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31 Dec 2021

Can be difficult to follow along at first but once you "get it" its quite good

31 Dec 2021

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11 Dec 2021

Plot is insanely well crafted - best time travel plot I know of. Cinematography and such is nice. The characters/cast themselves are generally pretty boring/monotone. That being said, the plotline is one of the best I've seen so 92/100.

11 Dec 2021

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12 Jul 2021

1st season, very good: good slow pace, makes the viewer ask questions / theorize on the events, keeping them on the edge of the seat. 2nd season, ok. Already starting to repeat the same motifs by several characters... Still keeping things interesting. 3rd season, difficult to watch. The story begins to disintegrate - I lost all interest in the characters and their fates. Even while I am interested in finding out The Catch of the show, I find it agonising to finish the episodes.

12 Jul 2021

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09 May 2021

Boring and flat

09 May 2021

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02 Apr 2021

S1:80 S2:90 S3:80

02 Apr 2021

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26 Mar 2021

Season 1: 80, Season 2: 75, Season 3: 65

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10 Jan 2021

I can't say I understand it all, but Dark is just ... so mesmerizing. Especially the 2 first seasons, I can really recommend. Then it became borderline too wacked.

10 Jan 2021

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23 Nov 2020

Everything Nolan has tried to do with his original concepts post-Memento, except better.

23 Nov 2020

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30 Aug 2020

Absolutely incredible.

30 Aug 2020

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19 Jul 2020

Konu olarak çok güzel ancak çok fazla kafa yoran bir dizi, 3. sezon özellikle bitse de gitsek denecek cinsten.

19 Jul 2020

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03 Jul 2020

2 > 1 > 3

03 Jul 2020

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29 Jun 2020

S01-85 S02-83 S03-88

29 Jun 2020

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12 May 2020

Aight let me be honest with you all. I loved the first season. I liked the second season. I did not like, or understand the third season and didn't finish the series. At some point in the show, it's just only time skips and old men/women talking wise (read meaningless, long, bs) words and becomes too complicated and not interesting enough to summon the required brain power for comprehension.

12 May 2020

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27 Apr 2020

1.Sezon-82/100 2.Sezon-80/100 3.Sezon-85/100

27 Apr 2020

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12 Apr 2020

Realy well made. But story stretches to long for me. From 82 to 78.

12 Apr 2020

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19 Oct 2019

Only seen season 1, but I think I've had enough. The story does need a second season and it's pretty well set up as a multi season show (compared to series like stranger things). However i got all the answers I wanted out of the first season and I drifted away from the series. The thing I liked most is basically the german language and the soundtrack. WO IST MIKKEL!?!

19 Oct 2019

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16 Sep 2019

Sic Mundus Creatus Est "Canavarlarla savaşan, kendisinin de bir canavara dönüşmemesine dikkat etmelidir! Uzun süre uçuruma bakarsan uçurum da sana bakar." Nietzsche

16 Sep 2019

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14 Sep 2019

How could anyone come up with such crazy and complicated script is beyound my limited brain capabilities.

14 Sep 2019

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19 Jul 2019

Rating increased following S3. Pre S3 was rated 95.

19 Jul 2019

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03 Jul 2019

A partially great show and a partially terrible show. The story I like a lot. However, it's very confusing and I've had to watch a few episodes twice. My biggest complaint are the actions/direction of the characters. The young kid and dad never do anything to help their situations, Jonas always jumps/sits up at 90 degrees after each nightmare, everyone needs to tell someone something but they never get to say it. Just doesn't seem like realistic reactions from the characters.

03 Jul 2019

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25 Jun 2019

3.Sezon sonu o kadar güzel bağladılar ki... 2.sezona başlamadan maalesef 1.sezonu tekrar izlemek durumunda kaldım :) Muhtemelen 3.sezon için de aynı şey geçerli olacak :)

25 Jun 2019

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26 Apr 2019

Clearly very influenced by Donnie Darko, both in terms of story and cinematography, evident in the long sequences of shots of the multiple characters with melancholic music at the end of each episode. It's nicely built, but unfortunately, when it could become intelligent and self-reflecting, it chooses to go for some pseudo-scientific BS.

26 Apr 2019

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11 Feb 2019

A series that's mysteries keep you guessing even after the end. I am excited for a second season.

11 Feb 2019

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12 Oct 2018

A delightfully supernatural treat. Dark has been added to my list of favorite shows. There's an English dubbed version out there but I fully recommend getting subtitles and watching the original German.

12 Oct 2018

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27 Aug 2018

S1: a great series. As others have stated, it's a mix of stranger things, x-files and outer-limits. You need to pay close attention, right from the start, but it's all well worth it. Looking forward to the second season.

27 Aug 2018

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24 Jul 2018

Lots of silly tropes in this like the 'catapult nightmare' and 'string theory' but I slowly got into the story. Until the final episode it would have been a higher rating if it had finished.

24 Jul 2018

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11 Apr 2018

Feels like True Detective, set in a quasi-Twin Peaks, flavored with a bit of Stranger Things, all with a great time-travel twist. And I bet you won't even be tempted by Netflix's Skip Intro button.

11 Apr 2018

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29 Mar 2018

- 80s ekmegi - karmasik hikaye - guzel atmosfer

29 Mar 2018

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11 Mar 2018

Season 1: 95 Season 2: 80 Season 3: 75 Too much filler in S2 and S3 but it sticks the landing, even if it's full of paradoxes but after 3 seasons of paradoxes you already knew what to expect.

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04 Mar 2018

S1: 35 S2: 40 S3: 40

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12 Feb 2018

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Super intense and addictive. I ate it raw. My only complaint is that it's an enclosed story - they leave it open for a potential season 2.

12 Feb 2018

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25 Jan 2018

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13 Jan 2018

S1: 70 S2: 82 S3: 76

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27 Dec 2017

Sezon 2. sonunda. Son bölüm gerçi iyi işaret vermedi 3. sezon için ama hala çok iyi.

27 Dec 2017

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25 Dec 2017

Very slow-paced but beautifully written and directed, Dark is a compelling approach to a paradox-filled theme. One of 2017's best surprises.

25 Dec 2017

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17 Dec 2017

Twisted and spooky and very dark. Well worth a look.

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Dark - Season 1

Dark - Season 1 (2017) - S1

Season 1 - A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families. (imdb)

Dark - Season 2

Dark - Season 2 (2019) - S2

Season 2 - A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families. (imdb)

Dark - Season 3

Dark - Season 3 (2020) - S3

Season 3 - A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town, where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families. (imdb)

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Created by:

Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese

Directed by:

Starring:

Stephan Kampwirth, Sebastian Rudolph, Jördis Triebel, Anne Ratte-Polle, Maja Schöne, Karoline Eichhorn, Mark Waschke, Anatole Taubman, Lisa Vicari, Louis Hofmann, Andreas Pietschmann, Oliver Masucci

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