Dark
By: Shilpa Shree
Tags: Dark Netflix, SciFi, Dark, Thriller, Netflix Originals

“What we know is a drop and what we don’t know is an ocean.”

The question is not where, but when?

We need to learn to let go.

Last, but the most important one of all, it is all connected.

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A series as dark as it can get, keeps you gripped to the edges of your seat. One of the SciFi series which talks better science than many others. Although it is in German, Netflix has the option to have English audio and subtitles. Pay no attention to subtitles because they just wouldn’t match with what is being spoken. However, do read the subtitles with care when they show some written content in German.

The first 4 episodes seemed too easy. I felt like Sherlock Holmes for cracking the mystery. But then the plot gets darker and trickier. Few boys are missing from the small German town — Winden and everyone knows everyone in this town.

The town is gloomy besides the weather adding to its gloominess. And then the mystery slowly unravels behind the missing kids.

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Then comes the central character Jonas who has absolutely no clue about what’s happening. He is pushed and forced to learn, understand, face the truths. Well, isn’t that what is expected of everyone in the series. But the protagonist is the chosen one — unlike our Neo from the Matrix. Here Jonas and his love — Martha are the glitch in the matrix.

Initially, the characters travel through time. Something which we have seen in many different SciFi movies etc. In this, everything is linked to an apocalypse caused by the nuclear power plant in Winden. The residuals of that incident is the “god particle", which has created a passage through time. This passage allows the travelers to go back and forth in time.

Well, the pertinent question, if world were to end today, and you had only one wish, what would you wish for — a world without Winden — an answer you hear from some characters in the series.

So, the apocalypse is just upon Winden and not the entire world, so we all can rest on that thought. Surprisingly the 4 major families around which the whole story revolves, betrays each other, holds secrets, loves one another, and yet is somehow living in one single place — Winden.

In the first season you feel it is all about circle of life. The mysterious disappearance of Mikkel and appearance of him in a different time, his father — Ulrich going back in time to save Mikkel, all feels like the families that tries to save each other. A regular drama in the SciFi world.

Then comes a twist in the tale, when multiple characters Adam, Claudia, Charlotte, Tanhauz, Magnus, Bartosz, Noah, Agnes, Tronte start adding their bit to the chaos of the world.

Adam is Jonas, Noah and Agnes are Bartosz’s kids, Silja is Hannah’s kid and Bartosz’s wife. Mikkel is Ulrich’s son and Jonas’s father and what not. The circle seems to never end.

Finally when you think it is all going to be over, the wheel has finally stopped, it just loops into the infinity. The truth of a parallel world comes into the light. Where Martha is the central character. Everything rooting down in a family tree to the beginning — Adam and Eve.

Like they say in this series, “the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning.” Both the worlds are tied together in a knot and Adam tries all his might to severe it. He and Martha are in the marathon of finding the origin of this all. Whilst they both play the chess of dark and light, Claudia plays the 3rd dimension chess even without Adam and Eve’s knowledge.

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Eventually all this boils down to just one person and his desire to have what he loved the most. I shall just stop the story here for you to figure this part out.

Besides all this, there are some life lessons too. Letting go off someone and how difficult it can be, how to get past your own thoughts and wants, how to stay focussed irrespective of the situation, how to be brave even when you are not, how to search your soul, integrity, loyalty, love, passion, persistence, some of the points that I noticed.

Well, never imagined that I would sit through 3 seasons of a German SciFi and eventually like many characters too. The storytelling is stretched in many parts, well! that’s how it is in any form of story narration. Few directorial glitches I felt could have been avoided because Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese have done a great job of taking good care of keeping the looks alike and different at the same time.

The timeline differences, the look of each character, and how each character looks convincing and complimenting their younger, middle and older selves. That’s a good level of casting for sure.

I simply want to say, it is the German version of “main samay hoon.”

Watch the series, have a thrilling time and enjoy some good SciFi.