Dark

The season-three set pieces are gorgeous, as the German show remains fantastic on a technical level. The camerawork goes from feeling hectic and nervy to slow, steady, and measured several times throughout each episode. It’s disorienting, just like the layered narrative it’s depicting. Hoffman’s performance continues to be top-tier, especially from a young actor. ... One of the most mind-melting shows on television, and possibly the most unique Netflix original, “Dark” finishes its run with peak writing, shocking conclusions, and a bittersweet sense of finality.

Dark's moody, mind-bending, and emotionally resonant narrative often feels like it's pulling inspiration from something closer to David Lynch's Twin Peaks.

The narrative is forbiddingly elaborate on purpose. What matters is how it feels to the members of this exclusive little club – and Dark, with its absolute sincerity and lush production, is a luxurious myth.

A consistently engaging genre effort in its own right, employing unsettling production values and an enormous cast of well-drawn characters for a narratively splintered investigation into questions of fate and free will. ... Come for the surface similarities to Stranger Things, stay for the unique time-travel insanity.

It’s beautiful, mysterious, and a little bit maddening, and you’d want to take in every little second of the show even if it wasn’t in German with English subtitles, because every aspect of it matters.

I grew initially frustrated at how little Dark was showing me about its characters and how little investment I was feeling in them, though the middle of the season produced some sympathy that I can't explain without spoiling the twists.

Dark feels strangely one-note, elevated purely by the increasing eccentricity of the plot, which eventually tip-toes into the science-fiction realm when time travel becomes a major element of the story. The less said about that the better.

Dark is undoubtedly one of the greatest TV-shows I have ever watched. The series is about a small German town, Winden, and four families whose children disappear miraculously, involving time travel. The plot unfolds over three seasons and each season it gains more depth. At the end, which is really satisfying, everything really starts to make sense. It is just so astonishingly deep and profound and does not even come close to anything I have ever seen. Whoever wrote it is truly a genius. Everything is so wonderfully connected and there are plot twists almost every episode. That is why recommend watching it actively. Furthermore, the characters are multidimensional (literally), I love the music and the setting and the production quality in general is far from disappointing. Not only thrilling, but also dramatic, captivating and thought provoking, dark excels as the first German produced Netflix original series and is a masterpiece and a must watch for everyone enjoying thriller or mystery.

Superbly acted, visually appealing. But oh so dull and repetative. Pity. Hard to follow.

Pretty boring family drama with overly dramatic background musics. Reminded me Lost series :S

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 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 **** 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.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]