Dark

Netflix | Release Date: December 1, 2017

9.0	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 442 Ratings

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addict-insaneAug 18, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Season 3 Review: Questions that this deceptively stupid show arose in my mind:

- How stupid do audiences have to be to believe that a show that quotes Nietzsche's If you look at the abyss long enough, it looks back thing, is going to be smart? That is one of the most cliché quotes in cinema.

- Why can’t young Jonas and Martha not spend 5 minutes on screen without crying? Every. Single. Episode. Why?

- Would real people in these circumstances get tossed around through time and space with lines like “what we know is a drop, the ocean is what we don’t know”… Or would someone with genitals eventually punch a mf’er in the mouth and say “I’m not going anywhere until you explain in excruciating detail what’s going on here”. You can’t say they had no time to explain, because by season 3 everyone’s traveling to whenever the f*ck they want, and still doing the Yoda sh*t.

- How many idiots would believe that in order to avoid the apocalypse you had to become a serial murderer of children?

- Nietzsche’s eternal return is one of Germany’s most famous philosophical concepts. After garnering international acclaim, why didn’t the writers delve deeper into German philosophy? Are they just stupid and know philosophy on a superficial level? I personally believe so.

- Why did they explain Schrodinger’s cat theory as stupidly as Joss Whedon would explain a Justice League joke?

- Why didn’t anyone realize that “Adam” and “Eva” were just killing people fruitlessly, and why didn’t anyone just say “I’m just going to kill these two **** and see what happens. They’re serial killers, so it’s probably not going to do any harm.”

- Why does this show insist on wasting my time with characters speaking in platitudes, instead of specifics. Is it to pad the runtime? Or is it because they don’t understand the real depths of the philosophical concepts behind Nietzsche’s work? I think it’s both.

- Why does everyone take 5-10 seconds to reply to one another? If you have a skip 5 seconds button on your player, you can safely press it after every line of dialogue, unless someone is angry.

And if you’re wondering why I watched this entire show, it’s because it’s so boring it helps my insomnia.

AND if you think I’m not smart enough for this show, I have a Master’s in literature, had to study all of Shakespeare and James Joyce’s Ulysses in one semester, I speak three languages and read philosophy in all three of them, and I’m currently signed on the online courses for Computer Science and Web Development that Harvard has. Good luck trying to convince me I’m dumb.

Positives: The actors are amazing, but the director just tells most of them to hold one emotion for three seasons, so...… Expand

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YagnikOct 9, 2020

Very brainy and mind twisting. However its very sad and difficult to watch.

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DingensJun 30, 2020

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 itA 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.… Expand

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Toten79Jul 22, 2020

I read some people saying that this is the best series ever made (obviously they are just germans trying to promote a homemade product) and that you must watch all the seasons to understand it and enjoy it (sorry, if my interest is notI read some people saying that this is the best series ever made (obviously they are just germans trying to promote a homemade product) and that you must watch all the seasons to understand it and enjoy it (sorry, if my interest is not grabbed by the first 2 episodes, that´s it for me). If your thing is watching an endless sequence of 20 seconds clip depicting random, bleak and utter uninteresting charcters, then yes, Dark is the best series ever made.… Expand

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FoDjazzSep 24, 2020

Ужасно скучный и нелогичный сериал с тупыми персонажами! Не смотрите этот сериал пятилетку, не тратьте время на непонятно что!

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the_nepodarokAug 12, 2020

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 andI 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 sh*t 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.… Expand

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dean09199Aug 18, 2020

It's one of the most overrated TV shows I have ever seen. Characters are shallow who you don't care about, nor feel any emotions. Story is boring and whole TV show is boring. Watched whole first season painfully and couldn't wait to finish itIt's one of the most overrated TV shows I have ever seen. Characters are shallow who you don't care about, nor feel any emotions. Story is boring and whole TV show is boring. Watched whole first season painfully and couldn't wait to finish it so I could never watch it again.… Expand

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mietze007Aug 15, 2022

The guy who was responsable for the audio should be fired for trolling that hard...

The music is pushed to the limite and so loud that you cant understand was the characters are talking...

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