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''Dark'' is a German
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Baran bo Odar Baran bo Odar (born 18 April 1978) is a German film and television director and screenwriter. He is known for co-creating the Netflix series ''Dark'' (2017–2020) and ''1899'' (2022) with his creative and romantic partner, Jantje Friese. His f ...
and
Jantje Friese Jantje Friese (born 1977) is a German film producer and screenwriter known for co-creating the Netflix series ''Dark'' (2017–2020) and ''1899'' (2022) with her creative and romantic partner Baran bo Odar. Work Jantje Friese studied productio ...
. It ran for three seasons from 2017 to 2020. The story follows characters from the fictional village of Winden, Germany, as they pursue the truth in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. They follow connections between four estranged families to unravel a sinister
time travel Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...
conspiracy which spans several generations. The series explores the existential implications of time and its effect on human nature. It features an ensemble cast. ''Dark'' debuted on 1 December 2017 on
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; it is the service's first
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. The second season was released on 21 June 2019, while the third and final season was released on 27 June 2020. ''Dark'' received critical acclaim, with praise for its tone, visuals, acting, casting, musical score, and the ambition and complexity of its narrative. The series' ending also received critical praise, with many calling it a "satisfying" conclusion. In 2021, the ''
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'' ranked the series as the 58th greatest TV series of the 21st century.


Overview

Children start vanishing from the German town of Winden, bringing to light the fractured relationships, double lives, and the dark pasts of four families living there, and unfurling a mystery that spans four generations. The first season begins in 2019, but later grows to include 1986 and 1953 via
time travel Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...
, when members of the show's central families become aware of a
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in the cave system beneath the local nuclear power plant. During the first season, secrets are revealed concerning the Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler, and Tiedemann families, and their lives begin crumbling as their ties are exposed. The conspiracy involves the missing children and the history of the town and its citizens. The second season continues the intertwining families' attempts to reunite with their missing loved ones, several months after the first-season finale, in 2020, 1987 and 1954, respectively. Additional story-lines are set in 2053 and 1921. The second season introduces Sic Mundus Creatus Est, a major faction in the ongoing battle for the ultimate fate of the people of Winden and the world. The season counts down towards the
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. The third season follows the four families across time in the wake of the apocalypse in 2020. It introduces a parallel world tethered to the first. The third season continues the 1954, 1987, 2020 and 2053 storylines in the first world, while also adding a new 1888 storyline and 2019 and 2052 in the second world, as the factions further their own desires for each world. The season also showcases the main events between all of these years, continuing the events of the season while also serving as backstory for the events of the first two seasons.


Cast and characters

The first season takes place primarily in 2019 but expands to include stories set in 1986, 1953, and – in the final scene of the first season – 2052, with several characters portrayed at various ages by multiple actors. The second season takes place several months after the first, depicting the initial stories in 2020, 1987, and 1954, respectively, while continuing the future-set storyline into 2053, and adding a fifth storyline, set in 1921. The third season introduces a storyline based in 1888 and a parallel reality featuring alternate versions of many main characters.


Main characters


Recurring cast

*
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as Ulla Obendorf, Erik Obendorf's mother in 2019 (season 1) * Nils Brunkhorst as the high school's science teacher in 2019 (seasons 1, 3) * Lena Dörrie as Clara Schrage, a nurse attending to Helge Doppler in 2019 (season 1) * Tara Fischer as a friend of Katharina in 1986–1987 (seasons 1–3) * Leopold Hornung as Torben Wöller, a junior police officer in 2019–2020, Benni/Bernadette's brother (seasons 1–3) * Tom Jahn as Jürgen Obendorf, Erik Obendorf's father in 2019–2020 (seasons 1–3) * Anna König as Edda Heimann, a pathologist in 2019 (seasons 1, 3) * Vico Mücke as Yasin Friese, Elisabeth Doppler's friend in 2019 (season 1) * Henning Peker as Udo Meier, a pathologist in 1953–1954 (seasons 1–2) * Barbara Philipp as Selma Ahrens, a caseworker in 1986 (season 1) * Paul Radom as Erik Obendorf, a teenage drug dealer gone missing in 2019 (season 1) * Anton Rubtsov as Benni/Bernadette, a
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prostitute in 2019–2020, Torben's sister (seasons 1–3) * Sammy Scheuritzel as Kilian Obendorf, Erik Obendorf's brother and Martha and Bartosz's classmate in 2019's alternative world (seasons 1, 3) * Anna Schönberg as Donata Kraus, a nurse and Ines Kahnwald's co-worker in 1986 (season 1) * Andreas Schröders as a power plant worker in 2020 (season 2) * Mieke Schymura as Justyna Jankowski, a junior police officer in 2019–2020 (seasons 1–3) * Axel Werner as Gustav Tannhaus, H.G. Tannhaus' grandfather and an industrialist fascinated with time travel (season 3) * Lea Willkowsky as Jasmin Trewen, Claudia Tiedemann's secretary in 1986–1987 (seasons 1–3) *
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as a police officer and co-worker of Egon Tiedemann in 1953–1954 (seasons 1–2)


Family trees


Episodes


Season 1 (2017)


Season 2 (2019)


Season 3 (2020)


Production

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approved the series in February 2016 for a first season consisting of ten one-hour episodes. Principal photography started on 18 October 2016 in and around Berlin (including Saarmund and Tremsdorf in
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), and ended in March 2017. The church where Jonas meets Noah was filmed at the in Stahnsdorf. The high school location was filmed at the Reinfelder Schule in Berlin's
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neighbourhood. The bridge and the train tracks were filmed on the abandoned in the middle of the Düppeler forest near Lake Wannsee. The series was filmed in 4K (
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) resolution. It is the first German-language Netflix original series and follows a trend of internationally produced Netflix originals, including the Mexican series '' Club de Cuervos'' in 2015, the Brazilian series '' 3%'' in 2016, the Italian series '' Suburra: Blood on Rome'' in 2017, and the Indian series '' Sacred Games'' in 2018. Principal photography for the second season took place on location in Berlin from June 2018. Filming for the third season began in May 2019 and wrapped in December 2019.


Music


Season 1


Track listing


Season 2


Track listing


Season 3


Track listing

Apart from the score, numerous pre-released songs were also used throughout the series. The song "Goodbye" by Apparat in collaboration with
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was used as the opening theme for the episodes. Songs by the vocal ensemble
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were also heavily featured on multiple episodes; the third movement of
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's ''
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'' was featured prominently in season one, and Alev Lenz's "May the Angels", also featuring Roomful of Teeth, was used in the season two episode five, "Lost and Found".


Release

The first season of the series was released on 1 December 2017. A second season was announced with a short teaser on the German Facebook pages of the series and Netflix on 20 December 2017. On 26 April 2019, a second season was announced which was released on 21 June 2019. On 26 May 2020, a third and final season was announced, which was released on 27 June 2020.


Reception


Critical response

''Dark'' received critical acclaim and has been listed by many publications as one of the best TV shows of the years 2017, 2019, and 2020, as well as of the 2010s, 21st century, and of all time. ''
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'' included the series in its article ''A Guide to TV Shows in the 2010s'' as one of the most notable shows of the decade. ''
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'' ranked it the 58th best TV series of the 21st century. Meanwhile, ''
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'' named it the 22nd best TV show of all time.


Season 1

The first season of ''Dark'' received mostly positive reviews from critics, with many noting its similarities to the TV series ''
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''. The
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gave the first season an approval rating of 89%, with an average rating of 7.4 out of 10, based on 46 critics. The website's critical consensus is "''Dark''s central mystery unfolds slowly, both tense and terrifying, culminating in a creepy, cinematic triumph of sci-fi noir."
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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream publications, gave it a score of 61, based on ten reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Writing for ''
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'', Lanre Bakare gave ''Dark'' a rating of four out of five stars and praised the series for its tone, the complexity of its narrative, and its pacing. Grading the series with a "B", Steve Greene of ''
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'' wrote, "Even when ''Dark'' is clinical in its set-up of these interweaving story threads, there's still an incredible amount of energy coursing through the show." From '' Vox'', Emily St. James gave it a score of three and a half out of five and said, "''Dark'' is fun to try to solve — it's a treat to tease out the many connections running among the three eras. It's just that at a certain point, it becomes difficult to care about what's happening, beyond simply wanting to figure out how everything is connected." Ariana Romero of ''
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'' noted that the series was darker and more in-depth than ''Stranger Things''. However, there was some criticism by ''Reason'''s Glenn Garvin for a heavy-handed approach to its message, a lack of sympathetic characters, and unoriginality of certain aspects of the series. ''
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'' listed ''Dark'' as one of the best TV series of 2017, while ''
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'' named it the 18th best TV show of the year.


Season 2

The second season received critical acclaim. Metacritic reported a score of 82 out of 100, based on four reviews, indicating "universal acclaim." At Rotten Tomatoes, season two of the series holds an approval rating of 100% based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1 out of 10, with the "Certified Fresh" status. The website's critical consensus states, "''Dark''s sumptuous second season descends deeper into the show's meticulously-crafted mythos and cements the series as one of streaming's strongest and strangest science fiction stories." Critics referred to season two as ominous and much more bizarre than season one, and that the series managed to subvert several tropes regarding the concepts of time travel. The season received a rating of four out of five stars from Jack Seale of ''
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'', a "B+" grade from Hanh Nguyen of ''
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''. The latter wrote in his verdict: "''Dark'' Season 2 can hurt your brain at times, trying to piece all the time-traveling narratives together, but in the end, creators
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reward your patience with some stellar WTF moments. At eight episodes in length, tis a tightly-woven tapestry of compelling stories and memorable performances from the entire ensemble." ''
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'''s Kaitlin Thomas was also favorable of the season, saying that "one of the reasons ''Dark'' is such a compelling drama isn't just because it presents time travel as something that is possible or because it grounds its story in the emotional narratives of its characters, but because it couches its sci-fi themes in conversations about free will and destiny. .. texcels at building a compelling mystery, and the fact that it never loses the plot itself is a testament to the writing of the series." The season was included in many critics' year-end lists of 2019. It was ranked as the ninth and tenth best TV show of the year by Maggie Fremont of ''
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'', respectively. Outside the top ten, ''
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'' named it the 12th and 26th best TV show of the year in their respective list. In addition, ''
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'' also listed it on each unranked list.


Season 3

The third and final season received critical acclaim, particularly for the series' ending, though the increased complexity of the plot drew some criticism. It received a Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of 97% based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5 out of 10, with the "Certified Fresh" status. The site's critical consensus says, "''Dark''s final chapter is as thrilling as it is bewildering, bringing viewers full circle without sacrificing any of the show's narrative complexities." At Metacritic, the season received an average score of 92, based on four reviews, indicating "universal acclaim." The season received a rating of five out of five stars from ''
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'''s Patrick Cremona and four out of five stars from ''
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'''s Jack Seale, an "A-" grade from ''
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'''s Steve Greene, and an "amazing" 9 out of 10 from ''
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'''s David Griffin. Cremona deemed it as "science fiction at its most mesmerising, its most confounding and its most exhilarating - and it all makes for a truly irresistible piece of television" and further praised the writing, cinematography, casting, and acting (particularly that of Louis Hoffman,
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). Griffin wrote in his verdict, "Dark's third and final season on Netflix is a memorable journey through time and space, with thrilling character shifts and fascinating paradoxes to unpack." William Goodman of ''
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'' praised the ending, saying, "Odar and Friese masterfully close by showing the symbiotic relationship between endings and beginnings. There's no victory without sacrifice, no light without darkness, and no love without loss. The tension between each of these conflicting ideas is so interwoven, making it hard to discern where one ends and the other begins. And so ''Dark'' concludes not with a hard endpoint on a line, but by elegantly and satisfyingly circling back into itself." The season was listed by many publications as one of the best TV shows of 2020. ''
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'' named it the eighth best TV show of the year, with one of the website's writers Patrick Cremona saying, "The final series was another irresistible piece of sci-fi television, equal parts mesmerising and confounding, with a sweeping scope that gave it the sense of a true epic. With its exhilarating finale, ''Dark'' has earned its place among the list of the very best original series made for the streamer." ''
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'' ranked it the tenth best TV series of the year. The website's Allie Gregory wrote, "With stunning performances from Louis Hoffman,
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(and an incredible score to boot), the apocalyptic time travel sci-fi series deftly concludes its mind-bending journey in its darkest (and ''Dark''-est) instalment yet. .. tmanages to neatly tie up all of its loose ends to finally find the one true "origin," so, at last, the town of Winden can free itself from the trappings of time and fate." ''
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'' listed it as one of the year's ten best TV shows, with one of its writers Mike Rougeau stating, "what really impressed us about Season 3 is how it wrapped things up, even while continuing the tradition of adding yet another new dimension (so to speak) to the show's tangled timelines. It managed to weave one of the most complex, but somehow still cohesive, sci-fi stories we've ever seen." Outside the top ten, ''
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'' named it the 17th best TV show of 2020. Meanwhile, ''
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'' ranked it at number 19 on its "40 Best TV Shows of 2020" list, with one of its writers Emma Stefansky calling the series finale "one of the most shocking and emotional conclusions to a TV show you'll see this year."


Awards and nominations

The series was nominated for the
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TV awards 2018 in three categories: best series; best actress for
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as Charlotte Doppler; and best actor for
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as Ulrich Nielsen. None of these nominations resulted in awards, but Louis Hofmann received the "Best Newcomer" award in recognition of his lead role in ''Dark'' as well as his performances in several films. The series was awarded the 2018
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(screenplay) #
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(director) # Udo Kramer (production design) # Simone Baer (casting) #
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(actress) # Louis Hofmann (actor) # Oliver Masucci (actor) The actors named are awarded as "representatives for the full cast".


See also

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*
Grandfather paradox A temporal paradox, time paradox, or time travel paradox is a paradox, an apparent contradiction, or logical contradiction associated with the idea of time and time travel. The notion of time travel to the future complies with current understanding ...
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Higgs boson The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Stand ...
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Schrödinger's cat In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in ...
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Self-fulfilling prophecy A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true at least in part as a result of a person's or group of persons' belief or expectation that said prediction would come true. This suggests that people's beliefs influence their actions. ...


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''Dark'' – The Official Guide
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