TV Review – Dark2 min read

Netflix has without a doubt dominated the small screen in the last couple of years; releasing titles in batch production every month as more and more people invest in the streaming service around the world.

Netflix has produced award-winning TV series such as 2016’s Stranger Things; so when people heard Netflix were coming out with a show similar to the beloved Duffer Brothers’ creation in December, many jumped on it immediately.

Baran bo Odar’s Dark is a Sci-Fi thriller based in the German town of Winden, which makes its remote, nuclear-powered setting a perfect premise to explore the contrasts between objective science and subjective perception in humans.

Though Dark’s trailer teased a ‘Stranger Things-esque’ vibe with alternate dimensions, I’d say the story grinds a much mature, slow-paced take to the subject of Science.

The show focuses on the importance of time as well as space and how tampering with it can lead to serious consequences.

I mean sure, elements of Stranger Things can be seen through dimensional travel and the premise of childhood.

But I’d rather compare this Show to the Science that we witnessed in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, just stretched out into 10 episodes.

It may sound boring but what kept us hooked and haunted to Interstellar was the story’s take on paradoxes and how it affects human life.

That being said, this TV show is a tear-jerker as we witness the characters suffer for the loss and constant search of their loved ones.

There are both dubbed and subbed versions of the show but I think you should choose the latter.

Once you get used to the German, you’ll see how much pain the characters are going through.

One thing the show does well is weaving Scientific monologue (theory of time travel) with the actions that the characters do that have been deemed either forbidden or paradoxical.

There’s a lot of rainfall in this show combined with vast forest landscape as well as a nuclear plant to set the basis to which the characters relate to each other.

This show is definitely for the open-minded and always-thinking.

It slowly progresses and builds up to a satisfying finale in episode 10, making the viewer anxious for more.

The director’s choice of music as well as colours really sets the mood for the TV show and I think there isn’t any other appropriate word to describe the whole ensemble – it’s dark.