Dark (2017-2020) TV Series
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)
Cast and Information
Seasons: 1, Episodes: 2 - Episode List
Created By: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
Directed By: Baran bo Odar
Starring: Karoline Eichhorn, Mark Waschke, Anatole Taubman, Louis Hofmann, Oliver Masucci, Anne Ratte-Polle, Jördis Triebel, Andreas Pietschmann, Stephan Kampwirth, Sebastian Rudolph, Maja Schöne, Lisa Vicari
Genres: Drama, Sci-fi, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
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1. Time Travel (collaborative: moderated by mpowell - 42 stars)
2. Time loop (collaborative: moderated by djross - 12 stars)
3. Science fiction TV series (public: djross - 8 stars)
4. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)
5. Availability: Netflix Canada (collaborative: moderated by geohawk - 5 stars)
6. TV - IMDB Top 250 (fiction) (public: KasperL - 5 stars)
7. Series (public: cankutozturk - 2 stars)
8. Netflix (public: TonyS. - 1 star)
9. Netflix France (collaborative: moderated by bfn)
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11. Remembered Films (collaborative: moderated by Bluefire)
12. Netflix Originals (collaborative: moderated by TallnNerdy)
13. watched but not rated (collaborative: moderated by kneurotic)
14. TV Series downloaded (public: volt26)
15. Fall Season 2017 (public: Victoriouz)
16. Mini Reviewed (public: Adds)
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| 5 |  |
imnotlaughin | 50 44th |
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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.
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eCitizen | 40 32nd |
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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.
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chmul_cr0n | 65 40th |
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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.
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Darkling | 40 10th |
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Doesn't really have a reason to exist and knows it.
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catcry | 40 21st |
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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?
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| 2 |  |
Hofschneider | 67 23rd |
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24 hours (24!) of tv to tell you that being obsessed makes you sad.
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yunahon | 50 22nd |
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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.
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| 2 | Krishna Soni | 25 0th |
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Dark is infested with plot-holes and reeks of stale content stacked in a manner that is nothing but pseudointellectual.
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djross | 65 70th |
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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.
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martryn | 96 98th |
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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+
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KasperL | 55 39th |
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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)
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cherrorist | 60 30th |
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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.
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overrated | 74 83rd |
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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.
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doomy1986 | 50 17th |
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Interesting series, but i had to stop, the sound is fucking annoying.. What were they thinking
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| 1 | Sadman | 75 45th |
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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.
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o_rety | 70 45th |
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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).
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| 1 | gadelat | 54 50th |
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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 movies scenes such as 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 for annoyance, not the best.
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Yoshinaruto | 65 56th |
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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.
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| 1 | ralyto | 64 25th |
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Starts off so promising and starts to fall apart as the mystery gets resolved.
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| 1 | MenialRetcon | 74 55th |
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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
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itsben | 30 29th |
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Oh my god it's so. boring. Lazy writing and poor character development.
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Henno | 88 93rd |
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This is the perfect show for the small target audience of people who enjoy hegelian dialectics AND sci fi.
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NewPhilip | 40 7th |
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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
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| Average Percentile 71.21% from 1363 Ratings |  |