"The question is not where. But when." This is Dark. This German science fiction thriller series created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. Set in a present-day German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families.
In February 2016, Netflix approved their first German-language series for a first season consisting of ten one-hour episodes, with a December 1, 2017 release date. Originally the show runners Odar and Friese were asked by Netflix to create a series from their movie Who Am I (2014). They were not interested and proposed to create something new: They already had plans for a series inspired by The Missing (2014) and a time travel movie and merged both ideas to finally pitch Dark. By late October, Louis Hofmann, Angela Winkler, Florian Panzner, Lisa Vicari, Oliver Masucci, Antje Traue, Carina Wiese, Karoline Eichhorn, Anatole Taubman, Michael Mendl, Peter Benedict, Lisa Kreuzer, Lea van Acken, and Sylvester Groth were cast. At the same time, principal photography commenced and wrapped in March 2017. Filming took place throughout Brandenburg, Scharzfeld, Stahnsdorf, and Berlin, Germany. In late December, Netflix announced a second season was greenlit, with a June 21, 2019 release date. In June 2018, principal photography for the second season commenced. In late May 2020, Netflix announced a third and final season was greenlit, with a June 27, 2020 release date. In May 2019, principal photography for the third season commenced and wrapped in December.
The series stars Hofmann, Winkler, Panzner, Vicari, Masucci, Traue, Wiese, Eichhorn, Taubman, Mendl, Benedict, Kreuzer, van Acken, and Groth. The two leads are stunning. Equally brilliant are the supporting cast who play the different members of the four families and the townsfolk.
It's very good, a swift-moving crime thriller that also takes the time to measure the effects of the crime on Mikkel Nielsen's disappearance, the family's state of mind, and the lives of the townspeople who were drawn into the investigation and may be again. Along the way, the show does not break many rules or deliver any shockers. It instead brings itself to a slow, sure boil. I was surprised to find myself completely hooked and entirely hopeful that the ending might be just as satisfying the start. I liked it enough to want to know how it ends. I'll likely watch the whole thing, but it's one of those shows that has elements that are tough to take, and I'd understand if some potential audience members gave it a miss. For all of its almost scientific attention to the granular details of shifting emotion and point of view, the show also has an eye for beauty. This is one of the year's very best TV programs, hard as it sometimes is to endure. It is a riveting, heartbreaking, fascinating drama, taking a subject that could easily have been turned into a Lifetime TV Movie melodrama and making it real with its subtle, character-driven grace notes and the breakneck speed of its elaborate plotting.
The series stars Hofmann, Winkler, Panzner, Vicari, Masucci, Traue, Wiese, Eichhorn, Taubman, Mendl, Benedict, Kreuzer, van Acken, and Groth. The two leads are stunning. Equally brilliant are the supporting cast who play the different members of the four families and the townsfolk.
It's very good, a swift-moving crime thriller that also takes the time to measure the effects of the crime on Mikkel Nielsen's disappearance, the family's state of mind, and the lives of the townspeople who were drawn into the investigation and may be again. Along the way, the show does not break many rules or deliver any shockers. It instead brings itself to a slow, sure boil. I was surprised to find myself completely hooked and entirely hopeful that the ending might be just as satisfying the start. I liked it enough to want to know how it ends. I'll likely watch the whole thing, but it's one of those shows that has elements that are tough to take, and I'd understand if some potential audience members gave it a miss. For all of its almost scientific attention to the granular details of shifting emotion and point of view, the show also has an eye for beauty. This is one of the year's very best TV programs, hard as it sometimes is to endure. It is a riveting, heartbreaking, fascinating drama, taking a subject that could easily have been turned into a Lifetime TV Movie melodrama and making it real with its subtle, character-driven grace notes and the breakneck speed of its elaborate plotting.
Simon says Dark receives:
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