Review for the first season only
A boy disappears mysteriously in a small village next to a forest and private facilities. The story is played by different characters of the town, including the family of the disappeared and a policeman who works alone. Sounds familiar?
Dark is essentially Stranger Things with time travel instead of a parallel universe, has better cinematography, and less interesting characters.
The characters are so monotonous that it is difficult to be invested in them; there is no character to relate with. The protagonist seems to be Jonas, but ends up being one of the characters with less screen time. The most interesting characters are Mikkel and Hannah, but for each Hannah, there is a Charlotte.
The series is mainly science fiction with elements of mystery and drama, but it focuses more on the melodrama of the characters with not much happening in each episode; the story seems to only progress in the last 2 minutes of each episode. Where is the notion of adventure? Where is the intrigue?
It's no spoiler to mention that the show uses the Novikov self-consistency principle as the rule for time travel, since it's the first thing they mention in the show: "everything is connected". So much so, that the show opens up with a quote by Einstein: "The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". The principle affirms that it would be impossible to create time paradoxes, and yet the show contradicts itself with paradoxes, just like the watchmaker acknowledges in the last episode.
The ending leads to nothing, and only creates more questions than it answers. In conclusion, Dark is a series with an interesting concept featuring not so interesting characters.
Dark is essentially Stranger Things with time travel instead of a parallel universe, has better cinematography, and less interesting characters.
The characters are so monotonous that it is difficult to be invested in them; there is no character to relate with. The protagonist seems to be Jonas, but ends up being one of the characters with less screen time. The most interesting characters are Mikkel and Hannah, but for each Hannah, there is a Charlotte.
The series is mainly science fiction with elements of mystery and drama, but it focuses more on the melodrama of the characters with not much happening in each episode; the story seems to only progress in the last 2 minutes of each episode. Where is the notion of adventure? Where is the intrigue?
It's no spoiler to mention that the show uses the Novikov self-consistency principle as the rule for time travel, since it's the first thing they mention in the show: "everything is connected". So much so, that the show opens up with a quote by Einstein: "The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". The principle affirms that it would be impossible to create time paradoxes, and yet the show contradicts itself with paradoxes, just like the watchmaker acknowledges in the last episode.
The ending leads to nothing, and only creates more questions than it answers. In conclusion, Dark is a series with an interesting concept featuring not so interesting characters.
- TheFunkyBass
- 3 juil. 2019