Ok, I'll stop you right there. If you haven't watched Dark, don't watch past
the opener. I will spoil it for sure, because only one
little detail of this review may make the Dark experience not as good as it should be.
So you have been warned. If you don't care being spoiled and you need
to be convinced to watch the German production then be my guest and come along through this
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Later in this video, I will have my top five WTF moments of the second season of Dark.
To begin with, I want to say that Dark is an investment.
If you are seeking for a show to sit back and relax this isn't it.
Dark it's more like a book, where you need focus to follow it.
I thought the first season was a challenging storytelling adventure, but season two just
went into a higher gear, by adding even more layers into the already intricate timeline.
I'm not sure how other reviewers got their review out there so fast, I found myself sipping
on the show very slowly, as the number of clues and plot twists needed some time to
digest. It's one of those binge-watching addiction
that you want to space out over a week, to be able to understand every ramification of
each character. And oh boy, there are ramifications.
It is by far one of the best-plotted TV show that Netflix has put out since producing their
own programmes and an intriguing experiment in how time travel and looped events can play
into one person's life, growth and evolution.
What is mind-blowing to me, is how well the
creators and writers of the show are managing all the different timelines AND the different
aged characters… and still keeping the show grounded and make sense of all of it… or
most of all of it. Time travel is one of those topics that may
create those plot holes or non-sense things, but Dark is managing to have an organised
way to make sense of every event that happens during each episode.
And even if I… by mysterious ways, saw coming one of the pivotal WTF moment in episode four,
when Adam revealed himself to Jonas, the writers still managed to slap me in the face, with
other revelations that were just even more WTF.
It is clear that the creators Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Friese - I hope I said it correctly -
have their convoluted plot
running like clockwork and I hope that this keeps running in the announced final third
season, that will be hopefully released next year.
On a production level the acting is sublime. I cannot fault the technical side of the TV show,
directing, editing, cinematography, lighting, costumes and so forth are beautiful.
The visual effects not too much in your face and well conceived.
What stood out to me in this season is the choices of commercial songs, which elevated
those cinematic moments to the next level. So, don't just keep your eyes open but also
your ears.
If you have been watching this review to get motivated to binge Dark, pause the video,
com' on then, go watch Dark and come back later.
If you are telling yourself you cannot watch a TV Show in a foreign language you are full
of it, go... what are you waiting? When is the last time you watched a youtube
video and someone told you to pause and go watch something else?
This is true endorsement.
If you are still hanging around, it means that you want to check out my top five WTF
moments of Dark. Once again BIG SPOILERS AHEAD... just after this.
[STING MUSIC]
WTF number five. I wonder if it is a coincidence or if this was part of a plan. The release
of season 2 on the 21st of June 2019 coincided with the day Michael aka older Mikkel suicide.
The first season of Dark was released in December 2017, so I guess the marketing team of Netflix
must have had this little stroke of genius and pushed the season from December to June
Just to get these things to coincide.
Well done.
WTF number four. Older Noah is the teacher of younger Noah,
teaching him how to become himself and telling him that gruesomely killing a man will shape
him to become a stronger himself. That was quite weird...
but there must be something else about it in the next season.
WTF number three. At the end of the season Magnus, Franziska,
Bartosz and Adult Jonas use the time machine to escape the apocalypse.
Now this connects the dots with episode 5 - I think - where you saw an older Magnus in 1921.
So if Magnus was older in 1921 they must have escaped to 1888 due to the 33-year jump points,
and then become part of the Sic Mundus Creatus Est team lead by Adam...
or tricked into it, as we know Adam is a trickster and has some secret plans in his mind, and
may have manipulated Magnus and Franziska into it. It also explains why Adam is older than everyone
else in 1921. Not sure where Bartosz is, as I don't think
we have seen his older version yet. As the family tree still has question marks
about parentage, I wonder if Bartosz may be the father of some other characters?
WTF number two. Martha dies at the origin of the 2019’s
apocalypse. Jonas is desperate and cries.
He's probably shocked that he couldn't stop it.
But then Martha with a different haircut appears and ta-da not only the current universe is
affected but also a parallel one? Not sure what's going on here and we will
probably get to find out in season three, but as I said earlier I was impressed how
they managed the different timelines in this universe if they are adding a parallel one,
my mind is going to blow up.
WTF number one. This got me, and I didn't see it coming.
The show has some weird situations, like Jonas being the son of Mikkel, who disappeared in
the "original" timeline of 2019 to land in 1986.
Mikkel in the 2019's timeframe has a sister, Martha, who has an incestuous relation with
Jonas, a WTF moment that surpasses by a mile the one with Deneris and Jon Snow on Game
of Thrones. But the most significant WTF moment to me,
was when we discover that Elisabeth Doppler, the deaf daughter of Charlotte and Peter Doppler
is Charlotte's mother... yes you have heard it correctly, the daughter
is the mother of her mother. Or you can put it in this way, that Elisabeth's
sister Franziska is also her granddaughter. How this will pan out in the next season,
I cannot foresee, but when you watch the show, it all makes kinda weird sense.
Every character is just a piece in Jenga just before the tower is about to collapse, and
taking away any of those pieces will make the whole tower fall apart, or won't it?
So, I'm not sure what the hell is going to happen next.
But what I'm sure of, is that there will still be some twisted WTF moments in the next season,
look again at the family tree, and how many question marks are still there...
so I'm not excluding anything.
Season two ended in a great cliffhanger, but I'm happy to have to wait a little bit before
knowing the end of the story, as I will take some time to digest the whole thing…
More coming up after this.
[STING MUSIC]
Well, I’m sure you understood that I enjoyed Dark...
Well, not just I enjoyed Dark, but Leo enjoyed it too...
Well, he is not really paying attention to me.
Usually, he sits there and throws me out of the couch and watches the show.
Well, let's rate Dark and I will leave a little room for improvement
for the third season, and so my verdict is...
[BUILD UP DRONE]
If you have watched the second season of Dark,
please let me know in the comment section below what are your thoughts about the show.
If you want to check out my review for season one click over here...
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and watch it! If you need some inspiration, what to watch
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