Revisiting Dark ahead of Season 3

This summer Netflix boasts a (pretty huge) number of new releases including (this is just naming 3 I think there's like 30+, seriously) Space Force, a workplace comedy series starring Steve Carell, season two of The Politician and The Old Guard a fantasy film starring Charlize Theron (bc we all know I stan). In these many, many titles is the third and final season of Dark, a show that I will wax poetic about for hours on end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrwycJ08PSA

My brother recommended Dark to me after season 2 came out last summer. I've always been a bit hesitant with his recommendations but, one night after scrolling for 10 minutes, I gave it a tentative chance. I can't be alone when I say that foreign language films/ TV shows can be a bit intimidating in a way that has us hesitating, but doing this we can miss out on so much good content. Next time you come across the dilemma please just watch!

Dark itself is a German language show, based in the small town of Winden, and primarily focuses on four families after the disappearance of a child. The resulting search for answers is desperate and frantic, exposing an entangled web of complexities and family secret; including a time travel conspiracy that spans over three generations.

By the time I joined the fan base it had been a long wait since the first season had come out in 2017 and fans were buzzing on social media. The web show is really hard to pin-point into any genre, to me it kind of fits as Stranger Things' older, scarier, cousin, others claim that it's a science fiction thriller which I think works as well. (Has also been listed as a paranormal mystery which I like.)

It is so so so gripping, I watched the entire thing in a couple of days I was HOOKED. Every episode had me sitting back with a comical 'whaaattttttt' trying to comprehend the new information before Netflix loaded the next episode. The show is smart which I think is hard to come by these days and what I really enjoy is how Dark explores time as a theme, how it affects human nature and its implications on our integrity.

Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese the show is beautifully set in this sleepy town, and is paired with an insanely good soundtrack. Jonas, the protagonist, is played by Louis Hofmann (a young actor who seems to be on the up and up in Germany) and he is incredible in this role, playing such a human and relatable character. Other performances I will praise to the high heavens are Oliver Masucci as Ulrich Nielson, Karoline Eichhorn as Charlotte Doppler (wow) and Peter Schneider as Helge Doppler.

(there are more but spoilers lol)

I'm not to obsess over TV shows but damn, after the newest season of Stranger Things and that Game of Thrones disaster it really highlights how hype and a budget can't always save the day.

So, while we're in quarantine and have a bit more free time please try and sit down and bless yourself with this show, it gets 10 stars from me.