Again, it is brutally hard to even attempt to explain what this looks like in practice, but trust me, it works. Namely the idea that the past has to create the future, and the future, in turn, has to create the past if time travelers are heading back in time to be involved in events. Once you zoom out and see the web that has been created, you can see Dark for what it is, a work of genius, and quite possibly one of the only time travel stories that actually makes sense, given how it handles cause and effect. I rewatched season 1, then the next two, and I was just barely hanging on to this plot the whole time.Īll this complexity serves a purpose, however. I watched season 1 several years ago when it first aired, but this is not a series you can be “refreshed” about through a three minute recap. I was in the final episodes of the third season and still having to count off in my head who was whose father and what this recent plot turn revealed about who was really whose ancestor.īut this is the best, and really only way, to consume the show, in one giant gulp now that the series has ended.
I cannot explain how hard this show was to keep track of. And in case that wasn’t enough, the final season throws in the concept of parallel dimensions as well, just in case you weren’t confused before. Those relationships get very complicated due to time travel, though I won’t spoil anything there. So you have to keep track of all these characters from all these families in essentially three different stages of life, child/teen, young adult/middle age, and old age, and remember how they’re all related to one another.
It also hops 33 years into the future in 2052.
The show time travels based on a 33 year cycle, so it starts in 2019, goes back to 1986, then to 1953, and 1920 and even the 1800s. And then you have to keep track of that across what ends up being something like six total timelines. Why is Dark so exhausting?įor every character, you have to keep track of whose father, son, mother, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild they might be.
While this starts as a “find the missing kid lost in time” story, it evolves to become much, much more than that.
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