At the mid point of series 3, I was getting worried that it was all too much. It was so confusing. Too many characters. But they brought us back in with the last 3 episodes. What a ride.
Totally. I feel like they were aiming to exhaust everyone, taking the confusion up to an almost un-follow-able level, to then reveal: this is what the characters have been going through endless times before trying to analyze what went wrong this loop, what to fix next loop, and there are so many variables that there is no "figuring it out" for Adam and his team and Eva and her team, so when Claudia shows up and reveals what really has to be done, it was such an a-ha moment where I realized the creators wanted you to experience how it would be impossible to untie the knot. Such an awesome show!
@@RohitSharma-so5eu I was with you right there. I was totally lost and at some point, kinda loss hope for a satisfactory ending. And then it started over with another reality. Truly remarkable show.
I was worried when middle aged Jonas in ep 2 didn't know that he travelled to different world.Then i got worried when jonas died but Bam Schrodinger's cat...And then i was relieved 😁🤣
Katharina's death really hurt me. Especially when you realise they kind of foreshadowed it in the first season with the kids swimming in the lake teasing each other about the woman who lives under the water, waiting to pull you under 😭😭 so, so sad. What a brilliant, brilliant story.
I found it more sad because she was abused by her mother as a teenager. In the end, her mother ended up killing her (which I'm sure that's what she wanted anyway) even if she didn't know that was Katharina.
As a huge fan of DARK, I was worried if Season 3 would be disappointing compared with the first two seasons (like Stranger Things 3), or contain a lackluster series finale (like Game of Thrones Season 8). Thank god I was wrong, because Season 3 of DARK is the most brilliant way to end a brilliant show! DARK is probably the best TV show ever produced since Twin Peaks or Breaking Bad!
@@mekero4643 Same. I like dark more, but season 3 of stranger things was fine with me. It was more light hearted than the other seasons and was more of a break for the characters
Wtf, ST season 3 was good, not better than season 1, but wayyy better than season 2, and, i mean, DARK is great, but the best show? I think is kinda overrated
Well, I really thought Helge's mother had an affair with the priest Hanno, and that's why Noah seemed to like Helge. But the fact that Peter is alive in the end scene just shots the shit in that theory. And who the hell is Peter's mom?
@@InstigatorDJ I've seen The Expanse (as far as available) and I love it. And I don't think it would want to be compared to DARK. Different shows... Personal preferences are just, well, personal. I find the storytelling in The Expanse to be rather conventional and the storytelling in DARK to be something else, something I've never seen before and never expected. So, no destruction here, just two shows that are great in their own right.
@blu menthal I think people miss that. In the end it's still a new reality so he was successful, but his reality still exists. Otherwise it would make no sense. If Jonas and Martha never exist, they can never be there to stop the crash. So in the end they all existed.
Just finished. What I appreciated was no humor. This is a show that took itself seriously, never dumbed down for the audience, never felt the need to shove in any jokes or a “funny” character, but was entertaining from wire to wire. Its so well written and dense it’s going to be one of those “thanksgiving turkey” shows, you’re going to keep coming back and pick up on something else, come back again and pick up on something else etc.
Well, I thought Wöller's eye story was like a fresh hidden joke from the storytellers that I liked. But besides from that, everything has the same dark energy, I would agree with you
H.G. Tannhaus's experiment was like the big bang for these two worlds.He also saved his family in a way so his experiment did succeed Also Hannah's dream could also be implying that the origin world when it was split into two just stopped.Became blank...
What I loved was that in many other stories they would want to go back in time to kill tannhaus before inventing the machine thus insuring the world will never split. Instead of doing this they go back and just give him what he needed without him realizing it. It also makes so much sense now why such a broad time travel loop existed in worlds 1 & 2, as they were not natural worlds to begin with. Amazing video, thank you!
@Kyel ! Got is more comples and intelligent than dark? 😂😂😂 you can't be serious. Plus there was no reason Dark would have 8 seasons, it was written as a 3 season series since the beginning. Don't try to go hypothetical, you have to judge on what we got.
It's rare to find a show this intellectually and emotionally satisfying. Dark is a triumph on many levels. I will probably watch it all again. Great review!
When Jonas and Martha save Tannhaus' kids, I said to myself, "If they disappear Infinity War style now, I'm going to be pissed". And that's exactly what they did. But guess what? They pulled it off pretty masterfully. The tone and style were pitch-perfect, and the disintegration effect really fit in sensibly with the world the writers had set up. The "Wonderful World" cover made me tear up a bit. It was as you say emotionally satisfying.
After the great disappointment that Game of Thrones was in that it punished you for getting into the vast detail. This is the perfect tonic. It rewarded you for becoming deeply invested in it. Incredible.
"Don't recommend binging the 3rd season back to back or all three seasons back to back it would just straight up kill you." Me sitting here after watching all three seasons in a span of five days :D
I'm not joking. I watched season 3 last night and it ended around 2am. My head was spinning and i literally felt that i will go mad because i was sleep deprived too. Thank God i woke up alright
The brilliant thing with dark is even if you don't understand anything at the time to the point you think that the writers must have made a mistake of sorts, they somehow wrap it up and explain things so that by the end of the series you think back and realize "ooh that's why that happened. That makes sense"
@@FluffyBunniesOnFire Mads.. in order for Ulrich to take a hint that his disappearance is related to Mikkel as well. For Erik.. I think for the group to go in the cave coz they know that's where his stash was hidden?
I agree with all your points even the "critiques". Dark Truly is a sci-fi masterpiece especially in the past decade! The last 2 episodes were gold and totally sticks the landing!
Also the show which takes time travel to another new level. Most stories of time travel is one-sided and the travelers cause little to no consequences. Dark truly shows how cruel and consequential time travel could be. Just mind blowing.
It's also the only show that uses the 3 differents concepts of time traveling at the same time, one for each season: fixed timeline, dynamic timeline, multiverse. A work of cult.
One thing that struck me every time they showed it was the sign language. I took ASL in college, and managed to retain most of it, and it was interesting how closely the German signs matched the American signs. Like I feel like if a deaf person from Germany, and a deaf person from U.S. met, they would be able to mostly understand each other. Unlike with German and English.
How the hell am I supposed to watch normal shows after this(just finished season 3) Most painful things for me was 1- In the third world when Jonas & Martha stop the origin and begin to dissolve into atoms, when Jonas said for the last time "You and I are perfect for each other" and not kissing Martha for last time 2- you and I aren't mean to be together (you get it) 3-Ulrich suffering for his entire life for nothing due to Egon who just as Ulrich said,knew nothing till the end 4- Katheria abused by her mother till her death 5- Mikel's entire life of terror
Dark drinking game, take a drink everytime someone kills someone, double if it's family, triple if it's themselves. Drink everytime tears are visible on Martha or Jonas, take a double everytime someone says "it's all connected". Three shots of vodka everytime the unknown kills someone with his creepy younger and older self watching, flaming sambuca for every apocalypse shown
In the first episode, Deja vu, within the first 15 mins when Martha, Magnus, Bartosz, Kilian meet at school and are going up the stairs, there were 2 twin looking girls holding hands in the background...did anyone notice lol They didn’t seem to belong there , just random
I think there were several "odd" characters in the background of that shot in the alt world school. I think they were kinda showing us it's a time and place that should not be there. I may be wrong but that's how I took it. I thought it was AMAZING. It was my 10 year wedding anniversary and my wife and I watched the show instead of wasting money on doing something we'd probably forget about in a few years. Thanks Dark!!
They had a lot of characters from different shows and theater as they had a theater day or week, can't remember it right now, in school. It was written in German on the posters in school.
I watched all three seasons in the last three days. All I can say is that I'm still trying to attach the right side of my brain to the left. Amazing. Will have to re-watch again to understand it all.
Yeah when the went to Katarina and locked up Ulrich I was like meh, but then, the beach, the necklace in the sand I was like Oh! Oh! Thats the necklace, That’s the legend.
It took me all day & a second watch to truly understand. I thought to myself during the first watch "hey does any of this make since" but after dissecting it all the elements came together. Dark will go down as one of if not the most ambitious sci fis of all time!! I'm going to miss this show.
Episode 6 took me at least 2 hours to finish I was rewinding like a mad man. I will definitely be taking notes when I rewatch. This show is so amazing. When it finally ends it turns into one of the greatest love stories I've ever taken in. A tragedy comparable to Romeo & Juliet.
@Kyel ! I personally couldn't get into GOT unfortunately. It's exceptionally well done. Acting, music and overall production are all superb. I just for some reason didn't connect with any of the characters and wasn't interested in the story. I can definitely see why it's so popular though!
@@reddragon0519871 you were more “connected” with the characters in dark mate? 🤔that’s interesting I love dark but I wouldn’t say it’s even in the same league as GOT when it comes to great and memorable characters
I have had this show on my to watch list for years and never got around to it. With Season 3 approaching I finally started to watch the show, not even realizing that it was the final season until the last episode. I watched it slowly over a couple weeks but my mind is just absolutely blown. What an incredible show. I consider myself lucky in retrospect of being able to enjoy the whole story from start to finish all at once because this is all time classic work. Absolutely outstanding. I am lost for words. I also couldn't stand the dubbed English and watched it in German with the subtitles, which I highly recommend to anyone that hasn't watched it yet. The dubbed English audio just really strips a lot of the heart and soul out of the show.
One way to keep track of the Martha's was to pay attention to the placement of her small eye cut when it was on the right side she was in Jonas world & the left was Martha's. The Martha that was influenced by Jonas never traveled to Marthas world after she was intervened on by Magnus & Franziska.
Over all in the last 3 years Dark has been the best tv series. Specially after all the build up, they still delivered a very good ending. Kudos to Deutschland!
This is probably my favorite series of all time now I’m gonna be looking for something else to watch and compare it to this it’s gonna be hard to find something this good again.
Absolutely brilliant show with almost no distracting or annoying flaws, and an amazingly satisfying and and elegantly simple resolution. It managed to accomplish in 3 seasons what GOT completely failed to do in 8. I will certainly rewatch the whole thing in coming years, both to make sure I never forget it, as well as to catch more details I may have missed and have an overall deeper understanding of how it all works. I'm still just kind of sitting in awe of the whole thing and feeling privileged to have seen it.
The longer I think about, the better the ending gets. There really was no other way to do it in a satisfying way; not to a level like this. There was a point in the final when I gasped and thought .. are Jonas & Martha _causing_ it all when they pop up on the street, but it all played out good. The ending is so straight forward there are not many questions left to even ask. Minor things, yes, and we may get/find answers along the line - but the show itself closed the loop on itself with an ending that makes you smile and be sad at the same time. This is how a bittersweet ending should feel like!
Exactly, it's a bittersweet ending. It's kinda ironic that it worked out bittersweet considering Adam & Eva spent so long trying to make everything happy by creating "paradise" but by trying to do that they were actually creating an infinite loop of sadness. But as soon as they decide to work together they create an ending that is both happy and sad.
When they appeared in front of the car and tannhaus son tried to avoid them I thought OMG they cause the accident, this is also part of the loop, this nightmare will never end
Dark series also shown reincarnation as a quantum Immortality concept, Katherina died in first world and reborns in second World, she then died in second World during apocalypse but her soul remembers her suffering during the lost of Mikkel that's why she was hugging Mikkel during apocalypse, Peter died in first world and reborns in second World, that's why he was feeling like he have met Jonas, when Jonas first time came to his world, because he have given him therapy, Martha have also born in second World that's why she was saying that when I met you Jonas I felt I met you before, Magnus Does all time travel thing with Jonas and reborns in second World and that's why he was satisfied during Apocalypse of second World because he have done so much work so his soul was satisfied. Similarly Francisca also done so much work and reborns in second second World and she was not having voice because she disrespected her sister who can't speak and her soul was also satisfied during Apocalypse of second World. but Jonas born again in his own universe but in Scrodinger cat theory, quantum immortality, that's why he never born in second World because he was always present in his world, his soul never gone their to reborn. But they all reborn in third world through different parents and reunited. The paradise. yes it may possible that quantum immortality concept of quantum physics can exist in real we just don't know that we are immortal and we will be become our Ulternate version of Scrodinger cat experiment, as Jonas felt something when he first read the letter of Martha, because he knows then only that The lines he said to real Martha can't be known by the Martha of other world. So it may be all version of all characters were past and future life of each other. And that is why he became Adam from Jonas. There is also a hint given in episode 5 of season 2 that in staring scene Middle Jonas dreamed where he is with Teenage Martha on bed and then suddenly Martha belly Ejects black liquid and that was their son, the origin, he was shocked because Adult jonas never goes to Martha for intercourse on bed , but because in true sense he goes to Martha world and died and reincarnated in alternate version. And this song just was playing during Stranger Jonas was on work, indicating that he is done dying
I'm as American as they come. Honestly, I can't stand foreign shows/subtitles/dubs. Because of that, it took me three separate tries to finish episode 1 (probably most boring episode of whole show on second watch). But MAN, I cannot reiterate strongly enough how much I loved this show. Breaking Bad will always be #1 for me, but Dark is #2 no question about it. Definitely more mind blowing and artistic. I am grieving the end of this show.
I binge watched the whole season and was so fucked up afterwards that I had an insanely vivid dream about my long dead grandma and that I somehow died with her in a parallel time line and my life is so terrible because I should be dead. I'm not in a good place...
Hannah's calendar having different " x " marks afterAdam kills Martha and circles the 27th in end of season 2 gives away there was a split in time line. The book with 3 world Charolette was gazing at was a slight hint of 3 worlds.
I also loved the ending. The show is definitely a masterpiece. Through I wonder if Jonas had a nickname of "Long Pause" Kahnwald? I don't know how many times I kept making circular motions with my hands, "Come on, Jonas, Out with it!". Of course he over-compensates as Adam with his long winded expositions. My drinking game would be, start drinking when the camera is on Jonas and waiting for him to speak, and by the time he speaks, we'd be drunk. Anyway, brilliant season and show,
WOW. This is SUCH an incredible review. I’m sooo in love with this series certainly the best I’ve seen in a very long time... maybe EVER Great to see that you’ve enjoyed it and you are just as amazed as I am, you’ve really described it for what it is 👌🏾
John Frum the show took you on a ride. The cycles were being carried out and the characters we watched were all playing their part. They had awareness of being in a cycle but not the ability to break free. All that really happens is a slow zoom out of the situation. We start with just a child going missing and then we keep seeing more and more of the picture until the last two episodes where we get to see the whole thing. When we get to see the whole thing, that’s when the characters get to break free and we get our Donnie Darko sacrifice. If they had done it any differently we wouldn’t be able to get these beautiful drama filled interpretations of time travel paradoxes. The show hits on all these time travel phenomenon but puts in a drama that you can track from start to finish. The story of self sacrificing Donnie, I mean Jonas is a basic one no doubt. The constant manipulation of characters to get them to do and feel certain things is frustrating, I was legit yelling at the screen and begging for something to change for two seasons, season 3 I learned my lesson and just sat back and enjoyed the ride. I feel like my intelligence grew from contemplating all the time paradoxes and all the bootstrap repercussions. It was a joy to work through the frustration. I had a satisfaction at the end like after you untangle a pair of really knotted up headphones. Your complaining and cussing the whole time but damn it feels good to have it untangled and it still be functional. This has surpassed Da Vinci’s Demons as my favorite show.
agreed on the expanse... best time travel still is 12 monkeys... but theres a new show called recursion coming up soon, based on novel, now that will be crazy.
For me, what stood out is the fact the HG Tannhaus' invention actually worked; no matter how much suffering it brought, in the end it fulfilled it's purpose of leaving his son and his son's family alive. The entire world we saw was just a tragic side-effect of a successful process created by one "small" man to solve one "small" issue. A tiny point, a singularity in time, created the entire Universe we saw between two worlds, four main families, dozens of philosophical questions and a shit-ton of confusing connections I that turned into lines in a big paper hanging on my room's wall as I tried to follow the plot. Between all of that, it also created a passion for us. Great show!
Noah was an awesome character in season 1 and 2. Everytime the scene got tense, I would whisper to myself, "here comes Noah" and bang! He wasn't the same in season 3 though lol too much of a family man
@@Osama84ca Lmao I ACTUALLY had convinced myself when he appeared in that Rolls Royce in the forest lane wayy back in season 1 that he was the devil come to a small town posing as a priest. 🤣🤣 I was a bit off there....
Wow.. This man just collected all my thoughts, and expressed it in the most intelligent way possible. I was soo worried about season 3, and i'm beyond happy how much it blew my expectations away. I'm literally sad it's over, because idk how anyone can top this..
I think you are absolutely WONDERFUL! Your reviews, insights, and enthusiasm are ... BEYOND, bro! ..... All Season's Greetings (past, present, and future) ... and ... looking forward to MUCH MORE in New Year 2023. CHEERS! Patrick.
Watching Season 3, I thought oh fuck, they're doing too much, being too extra, there was a part of me, admittedly that thought Im going to hate this season, but finding out the Orgin was a beautiful thing, and a tragic thing as Jonas and Martha never existed anymore, Jonas fought so hard to save Martha, that it was a vicious cycle he couldn't stop.... I personally am so glad there's not going to be a Season 4, while I'm going to miss these characters and the story, honestly I can't take 100 scenarios to stop Jonas or Martha :)
Spoiler After 3 years and 3 Seasons my Brain can take a rest finally :) Oh Boi...What a ride!!! In the end at the final table you can really see the consequence from these Familys in both Worlds! Im really happy to see Dark hit the landing and answered (for me) all important questions and in the end of s3 ep8 (after 3 years of theory) i got a big smile in my face and tears in my eyes... Bravo!
I finished the show today (I know I was pretty late to the party because I decided to watch season 1 & 2 again before watching season 3). I was totally stunned by how good and satisfying Dark is. My goodness. Not only its time travel story telling is convoluted but eventually rewarding, the entire show tells love and sacrifice stories in every plot details. The love and sacrifice the parents are willing to make for their kids, and so is the love (and sometimes hate) between lovers. There were hopes and disappointments among the characters and in the end we realized that they were never meant to exist but they were, for a long, torturing and yet bittersweet while. The finals words between Jonas and Martha were really touching as it reflected way back to just a few simple lines in Season 1. I’ve never watched a Sci-fi series that great. Now I don’t know what I should watch next.
I didnt took notes at all. I can give the advice to watch this Series at twice, because you understand things better then. I did it and i understood 100% and i love that tiny scores and i cryed the second time at the end - because they all died for a good reason and then the Music gives the emotions extra punch
Just finished watching the 3rd cycle! WOW! Great review James! You hit it on all points. I didn't rewatch any of the previous seasons. As you said, I felt I was in good hands with these story tellers. But some day, I look forward to rewatching this all again. Not binge it, but savor the whole story fresh! I haven't been this blown away in a tv show since Archie Bunker reveled his childhood nickname was "Shoe bootie". LOL But anyways, now to watch your discussion with Binge Zone! Happy 4th!
I had a mental breakdown after watching Season 3 ..... It is called Dark for some reason... if you see beyond the series... its really dark and impacts you directly in real life.
Really surprised everyone seems to have loved the ending. I was a bit disappointed. It felt very plot driven, with characters making odd decisions in order to take the plot where the writers wanted it to go. Also, though they did a good job of tying up loose ends, to me it felt like that’s what they were doing, rather than revealing those ends as integral parts of the story. Still, really enjoyed the journey and I can’t rule out totally changing my mind about the end after a rewatch.
I really loved the story about angel necklace that traveled time and space and how it belonged to Katarina, and then it got to Jonas and Martha. That was just so amazing
This really must go down amongst the best shows of all time. By the end there were 2 sometimes 3 versions of character over 6 timelines inhabiting 3 parallel universes yet it somehow all made sense. Also it was half way through the final season that i realised the significance of the shows title, opening song and title sequence. Utter genius.
I still don’t understand when and how In Adam’s and Eve’s timeline they were able to discover one another’s world? Who discovered the other’s world first? I do understand the 2 different timelines of Jonas and Martha. However: Why would Adam ask Magnus and Franzika to send Martha to save Jonas just to create the origin only to kill her and the origin, as well Jonas dies that time line? In the other timeline where Jonas goes to the basement the origin would never be created, this is due to Eve sending Bartaoz to stop Martha from saving Jonas, however she wants to origin to be created?
Yes it's great that Netflix made this possible, but I'm still mad that they cancelled the OA, because that was definitely on the same level as Dark. (Just figure, they cancelled the OA but gave Anther Life a second season, it's unbelieveable.) Dark, the OA and also Mr. Robot, are among the best televison series of this millenium. Last thought: you know that famous line "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" Well, it's almost impossible to handle the truth of Dark. But it's worth trying.
"don't watch all three seasons back to back, it'll ultimately just kill you" 😂 So true! I remember at one point just pausing it and screaming at the TV "where the fuck am I!!??" 😂😂. I text my son " this show is like Back to the Future on Bath Salts!!" I love the parts where something is explained but hasn't happened yet. For instance where Magnus was teasing Martha about the legend of the dead lady in the lake and Jonas finding the St. Christopher medal in the sand, when Katerina was at Dr. appt with Mikkel and not killed by her mom yet!
@@Colencence... mind blown 😁😂 that St Christopher revelation was the most mind blowing piece for me. I thought they'd forget how it ended up there in the lake. Oof!
My head was spinning after the first few episodes of season 3 that I had to go sleep it off, what a ride indeed. The show also spoke to me on a philosophical level where I kept on thinking about the little story by Chuang Tzu “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
My favourite show ever, if this was an English speaking series everyone would be talking about it. Head was melted for the first couple of episodes of season 3 but it all came together perfectly and probably the most satisfying ending to a series I've ever watched.
This show made my mind go into full circle the way it did on it’s worlds. In the first season the plot twist was already revealed right in the title theme. And later when Taunhaus explained the concept of the 3rd dimension. I thought it was interesting and I also believed in the concept of that third choice existing. I paid no mind to it until season 3 came and I hate myself for brushing it off. I was too annoyed and wrapped up in the whole loopty doo mess that is Jonas and Martha.
I think it's a happy ending. The issues with us(us being human beings) is that we think we should tell others when they should live and die. If someone is so miserable and suffering why should "we" tell them "you can stop living, continue to suffer". Its like assisted suicide. If a person has exhausted every option to make them happy why is it our place to tell them to continue to suffer. I'm not saying let people commit suicide at the slightest sign of something bad happening but if they have no hope then by all means do what will help you, and sometimes that may be to simply end the suffering. I know that's not gonna be a popular take but why should we tell any other person they must suffer to make us feel better thinking we are helping them.
I just wanted to say, I watched all 3 seasons back to back, and I'm still alive. And to tie it up in two episodes was brilliant! I bet if I rewatch this, there are scenes that belong to the other world, but I just didn't notice.
I love it and you're review is great! The best thing I took from season 3 is the feeling of the characters entrapment in the loop. It was urgent and chaotic. By episode 7, I felt the fatigue of all the positioning of moments and people so everything happens all over again. Paradise could be their total release from the loop and the hope for their origin selves to lead lives free of their entangled desires.
As good as the ending was, I do think season 3 suffered a bit. I felt that layering on Martha's world only served to confuse the narrative. It didn't really bring anything to the table for me, and in some respects felt like it undermined the characters we had spent time with. Whereas the first two seasons seemed to progress a character-based mystery, the last season just felt like a barrage of confused atomatons being told what to do by Adam and Eva. How many times in season 3 did we hear someone has been lying, or the phrase "in his world ... And in hers". It got repetitive to the point of parody. Another problem is Deus Ex Claudia just shows up in the last episode to explain everything in one extended monologue. I'm still not even sure why Claudia disintegrated out of existence, since her bloodline would not have been altered. Overall the season had some great moments but it was extremely muddled, borderline unfollowable, yet saved by a great ending.
Lots of murders in Season 3. The 3 who are killed using a choke wire by Martha's son. Bartosz killed by his son Noah ( S2). Good Old Helge kills Ulrich. Katarina murdered by her mum. Hannah killed by her son Jonas as a younger Adam. Claudia kills her older self. Peter killed. I am sure I may have missed one or three. I love the cheeky humour at the end where we see Woller for the second time about to reveal what happened with his eye, only to be interrupted by thunder. Hilarious.
I think those are a bit too excessive. The killing should be done with more purpose. Like Mikel's suicide. I feel like a lot of the killing scenes other than the Unknown are excessive. Things don't have to go that far.
YEN I kind of agree. I don’t know why, but I didn’t feel comfortable about some of those killings, though I suppose at that point, we knew they were still alive in the other world.
@@danjsilve I got what the script writer is going but it almost makes it less realistic. I think the previous 2 seasons the conflicts and killings were more "real.' Especially the part where Jonas killed his mother. I was like what the hell? He could tie her up and still repeat the same process. Why does he have to kill her?
watched the series back to back to back and wtf...best stuff have seen in a while.i loved how every story line was tied up (sorry katharina and hannah in the realities) and attention to detail,pure wow!!!
Love your views on the show. 2 questions if anyone cares to answer- 1. What was the significance of black tar on Michael (season 1) and Martha (season 3) near cave?, and, when they made very clear that even if Jonas will try to kill himself he cannot because his older version already exists, why he dies in Eva's world - is this because he 'travelled' where he is 'not supposed to exist"
Season three is in? Well thank you for bringing this to my attention. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to stop flapping my arms and squealing, change my undies then go relax and try to watch this in a calm and mature manner.
I have to admit, I find this show confusing. I love it, but I do get lost, trying to follow which character is which and in which timeline. It's not the shows fault. I'm a dummy. The show actually does extremely well casting the actors. Not only are they all good actors, but most of them really do resemble their younger or older selves. It's remarkable actually, but I find I'm always trying to remember who's who more than anything else. I've had to watch each season more than once in order to have it stick in my brain. Well worth it though. This show is incredible. Addendum: Finished the season and was blown away. My brain caught up to the details of the story around episode 6, and once I was able to attribute who was working for which side, I was able to follow without worry. The ending was perfect, and satisfying imo!
“And definitely don’t watch all three seasons back to back, it will straight up kill you.” Thank god I didn’t do that 👀💀 I had a massive headache going to bed that night and into the next morning. So I agree with this sentiment, in retrospect.
We all deserve to have a good rest after watching it for 8 hours straight.
Help, my brain melted
Right, I wasn’t annoyed by the show but watching it for 8 h was f***ed up but I did to myself, so no reason to complain actually...
I watched all 3 seasons in 33 hours:P Then spent the next 2 days making a chronological timeline.
Honestly, I was completely knackered when I finished watching it. As amazing as it was, it was also exhausting!
@@shaecouture7480 lol same didnt even knew about just start watching it by accident
At the mid point of series 3, I was getting worried that it was all too much. It was so confusing. Too many characters. But they brought us back in with the last 3 episodes. What a ride.
The ending of episode 6 shut down my brain because of Eve's Army
My brain exploded when martha kill jonas in parallel world😅😅😅 I thought now the story will decline but no...there was another surprise waiting😅😅😂
Totally. I feel like they were aiming to exhaust everyone, taking the confusion up to an almost un-follow-able level, to then reveal: this is what the characters have been going through endless times before trying to analyze what went wrong this loop, what to fix next loop, and there are so many variables that there is no "figuring it out" for Adam and his team and Eva and her team, so when Claudia shows up and reveals what really has to be done, it was such an a-ha moment where I realized the creators wanted you to experience how it would be impossible to untie the knot. Such an awesome show!
@@RohitSharma-so5eu I was with you right there. I was totally lost and at some point, kinda loss hope for a satisfactory ending. And then it started over with another reality. Truly remarkable show.
I was worried when middle aged Jonas in ep 2 didn't know that he travelled to different world.Then i got worried when jonas died but Bam Schrodinger's cat...And then i was relieved 😁🤣
Katharina's death really hurt me. Especially when you realise they kind of foreshadowed it in the first season with the kids swimming in the lake teasing each other about the woman who lives under the water, waiting to pull you under 😭😭 so, so sad. What a brilliant, brilliant story.
I totally forgot about that moment. Damn this is sad...
I realized that they find the necklace there, but I completely forgot about the myth of the woman
Son Goku omg 😱
Katharina was loony and mean to people. I wanted to tel her the whole show to take a shower and brush her teeth.
I found it more sad because she was abused by her mother as a teenager. In the end, her mother ended up killing her (which I'm sure that's what she wanted anyway) even if she didn't know that was Katharina.
As a huge fan of DARK, I was worried if Season 3 would be disappointing compared with the first two seasons (like Stranger Things 3), or contain a lackluster series finale (like Game of Thrones Season 8). Thank god I was wrong, because Season 3 of DARK is the most brilliant way to end a brilliant show! DARK is probably the best TV show ever produced since Twin Peaks or Breaking Bad!
Actually I think that stranger things 3 was the best season, a lot of people think this way you should watch some videos about it
@@mekero4643 i know nobody who likes season 2 or 3 of ST
@@mekero4643 Same. I like dark more, but season 3 of stranger things was fine with me. It was more light hearted than the other seasons and was more of a break for the characters
Wtf, ST season 3 was good, not better than season 1, but wayyy better than season 2, and, i mean, DARK is great, but the best show? I think is kinda overrated
Season 3 of Stranger Things is actually pretty good, season 2 is the one that sucks.
Every main character that is not at the dinner table at the end only existed because of time travel
Not technically true, but in spirit - yeah.
Jonas isn't born yet. (You know what I mean)
@@roy168x The Jonas we know will never be born. Cause his dad was michael. Hannah's son will be named Jonas but that's it
Well, I really thought Helge's mother had an affair with the priest Hanno, and that's why Noah seemed to like Helge. But the fact that Peter is alive in the end scene just shots the shit in that theory. And who the hell is Peter's mom?
@@roy168x Wouldn't be the same Jonas anyways.
Just finished Season 3 and I just can't get my head around how tragically and yet beautifully it ended. I'm speechless.
Dark is the best Netflix series and probably one of the best of all time, it’ll be hard for any series to even come close.
attack on titan will eclipse this. Trust me. Final season is coming. and yes I have read the manga.
this is gonna be a cult following...
@@lakshaykumar5649 ahahahahahahah as an Animator this is a fuinny Joke :D
The Expanse destroys this with both hands behind its back.
@@InstigatorDJ I've seen The Expanse (as far as available) and I love it. And I don't think it would want to be compared to DARK. Different shows...
Personal preferences are just, well, personal.
I find the storytelling in The Expanse to be rather conventional and the storytelling in DARK to be something else, something I've never seen before and never expected.
So, no destruction here, just two shows that are great in their own right.
In the end, OG-Old-Tanhaus was successful, and he himself never got to know it, in either of the 3 realities. That was my favorite part of it all.
What you know is a drop...
That was my favorite part of the ending.
Didnt even realize this until I read your comment, and it blew my mind
The message being, be gratefully for what you have, you'll never know how lucky you are to have it.
@blu menthal I think people miss that. In the end it's still a new reality so he was successful, but his reality still exists. Otherwise it would make no sense. If Jonas and Martha never exist, they can never be there to stop the crash. So in the end they all existed.
Now that the ending is satisfying i can say it:dark is the GOAT serie
@@roberthahn6496 Subtitles..
@@ArjunAS and
My name is Jonas.
For real tho, love how wr have to wait till the last minute to comfortably pick this as a top show. G.o.T knows we made that mistake before.. 🙄
Miss Hannah already......
Just finished. What I appreciated was no humor. This is a show that took itself seriously, never dumbed down for the audience, never felt the need to shove in any jokes or a “funny” character, but was entertaining from wire to wire. Its so well written and dense it’s going to be one of those “thanksgiving turkey” shows, you’re going to keep coming back and pick up on something else, come back again and pick up on something else etc.
Well that proves that we germans have no sense of humor. ;)
Well, I thought Wöller's eye story was like a fresh hidden joke from the storytellers that I liked. But besides from that, everything has the same dark energy, I would agree with you
The only joke was Wöllers harmed eye and that he was never given opportunity to explain how it has happened.
@@godsowncountry3605 it's a joke in a way as there's always an interruption whenever he starts telling his story...lol
@@Quotenwagnerianer I am German and laughing my ass off :D It is acutally a very German show, when you think about it.
When they went to Tannhaus to fix it all, I really thought that they would accidentally kill his son and wife with the kid and thus it would all begin
that would be brutally mind blowing but all in all it would make sense and yet dissapointing...
At this point I think they wanted us to feel like that, because it always have been a giant loop
I was terrified that would happen as soon as I heard the plan
LOL THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. My heart sank when the car swerved and I was like oh no... here we go.
Haha I thought the same, I’ve seen a few people make reaction videos to Dark and that’s what they always say. Brilliant writing.
H.G. Tannhaus's experiment was like the big bang for these two worlds.He also saved his family in a way so his experiment did succeed
Also Hannah's dream could also be implying that the origin world when it was split into two just stopped.Became blank...
I thought Hannah's dream was her experiencing in a dream what happened to her two counterparts when they disappeared
@@radhiadeedou8286 well yeah that scene was actually explaining wht happened with every character after their respective world vanished.So u r right.
I think youre right. This show has so much to talk and think about. It will become cult status far beyond this finale
What I loved was that in many other stories they would want to go back in time to kill tannhaus before inventing the machine thus insuring the world will never split. Instead of doing this they go back and just give him what he needed without him realizing it. It also makes so much sense now why such a broad time travel loop existed in worlds 1 & 2, as they were not natural worlds to begin with. Amazing video, thank you!
Dark is wht GOT promised to be in terms of wrapping things up.
But as a show its limited Only within hardcore sci-fi nerds.
Now thats over, its much better than GOT
well i'm not a hardcore sci-fi nerd and I fkn loved this show!
I hate sci fi but I absolutely adore dark.
Even my mom loved Dark. She completely geeked out and she almost exclusively watches british soaps like Downton Abbey.
@Kyel ! Got is more comples and intelligent than dark? 😂😂😂 you can't be serious. Plus there was no reason Dark would have 8 seasons, it was written as a 3 season series since the beginning. Don't try to go hypothetical, you have to judge on what we got.
It's rare to find a show this intellectually and emotionally satisfying. Dark is a triumph on many levels. I will probably watch it all again. Great review!
When Jonas and Martha save Tannhaus' kids, I said to myself, "If they disappear Infinity War style now, I'm going to be pissed". And that's exactly what they did. But guess what? They pulled it off pretty masterfully. The tone and style were pitch-perfect, and the disintegration effect really fit in sensibly with the world the writers had set up. The "Wonderful World" cover made me tear up a bit. It was as you say emotionally satisfying.
After the great disappointment that Game of Thrones was in that it punished you for getting into the vast detail. This is the perfect tonic. It rewarded you for becoming deeply invested in it. Incredible.
On a scale of 1 to 10, Dark is definitely 100 🔥🔥🔥
🌗🌍🌓
I don't know hey, I would give it a 33/10
Hotter that Helge's mom!!!.
i'm sorry.
"Don't recommend binging the 3rd season back to back or all three seasons back to back it would just straight up kill you."
Me sitting here after watching all three seasons in a span of five days :D
Same
Same! I started last Thursday on season 1 and finished season 3 last night. What a wild ride, holy shit
I binge watched one season per day.. so total of 3 days 😁
Dark is a masterpiece.. so underrated imo
I'm not joking. I watched season 3 last night and it ended around 2am. My head was spinning and i literally felt that i will go mad because i was sleep deprived too. Thank God i woke up alright
Me too.but i loved it.
The brilliant thing with dark is even if you don't understand anything at the time to the point you think that the writers must have made a mistake of sorts, they somehow wrap it up and explain things so that by the end of the series you think back and realize "ooh that's why that happened. That makes sense"
The writing is stellar. They have been so meticulous and precise and careful it is scary how good it is. I am honestly not used to writing like this.
It's made by Germans so no wonder lol
A great thing about this season is that every hated or disliked characters became like able and understandable.
Exactlyyyy
Because there is no antagonist on this story. They are all the players of the loop.
What about the dude who broke into Peter and Elisabeth's trailer? Trololol
Still don’t like Hanna
@@alexisferdinandcalugay3461 what about Hannah?
the fact when you realize that noah killed that boy yasin because he was dating his wife..
Big Oooof
@@FluffyBunniesOnFire Mads.. in order for Ulrich to take a hint that his disappearance is related to Mikkel as well.
For Erik.. I think for the group to go in the cave coz they know that's where his stash was hidden?
@@jvinsantos6861 wow I just thought they kidnapped random kids
@@MyPhilcat also they used Erik and Yasin as a test subjects to make sure that Helge will successfully travel back in time..
so when noah killed Mads, he want to make sure there is only one descendant from Tronte which is "Ulrich"? am I right?
I agree with all your points even the "critiques". Dark Truly is a sci-fi masterpiece especially in the past decade! The last 2 episodes were gold and totally sticks the landing!
The only show which used the time travel concept perfectly
Also the show which takes time travel to another new level. Most stories of time travel is one-sided and the travelers cause little to no consequences. Dark truly shows how cruel and consequential time travel could be. Just mind blowing.
Probably because they used all concepts there are and made them all work at the same time
Dirk gently season 1 Is really good as well.
It's also the only show that uses the 3 differents concepts of time traveling at the same time, one for each season: fixed timeline, dynamic timeline, multiverse. A work of cult.
@@aalluubbaa Watch Steins;Gate anime. Thank me later. :)
One thing that struck me every time they showed it was the sign language. I took ASL in college, and managed to retain most of it, and it was interesting how closely the German signs matched the American signs. Like I feel like if a deaf person from Germany, and a deaf person from U.S. met, they would be able to mostly understand each other. Unlike with German and English.
Do deaf people all over the World learn English sign language? Like is it also the World language for deaf people?
How the hell am I supposed to watch normal shows after this(just finished season 3)
Most painful things for me was
1- In the third world when Jonas & Martha stop the origin and begin to dissolve into atoms, when Jonas said for the last time "You and I are perfect for each other" and not kissing Martha for last time
2- you and I aren't mean to be together (you get it)
3-Ulrich suffering for his entire life for nothing due to Egon who just as Ulrich said,knew nothing till the end
4- Katheria abused by her mother till her death
5- Mikel's entire life of terror
Dark drinking game, take a drink everytime someone kills someone, double if it's family, triple if it's themselves. Drink everytime tears are visible on Martha or Jonas, take a double everytime someone says "it's all connected". Three shots of vodka everytime the unknown kills someone with his creepy younger and older self watching, flaming sambuca for every apocalypse shown
Are you trying to kill people?
Aaaand I'm dead
@@elk3407 what is dead may never die, wait wrong show....the end is just the beginning 👍😁
Down a bottle of whiskey any time the words "wir passen perfekt zusammen" are uttered.
triple shot if any character says, 'I don't understand'
The series was trip i give the writers credit for putting this thing together one of best things i watched.
I thought it was heartbreaking what happened to Mikkel. What a wonderful job they did depicting the death of innocence.
In the first episode, Deja vu, within the first 15 mins when Martha, Magnus, Bartosz, Kilian meet at school and are going up the stairs, there were 2 twin looking girls holding hands in the background...did anyone notice lol
They didn’t seem to belong there , just random
i think they were paying homage to the shining
@@rishabhvaidya4717 they did.
Got The shining vibes i was like is this a shoutout to Stanley Kubrick
I think there were several "odd" characters in the background of that shot in the alt world school. I think they were kinda showing us it's a time and place that should not be there. I may be wrong but that's how I took it. I thought it was AMAZING. It was my 10 year wedding anniversary and my wife and I watched the show instead of wasting money on doing something we'd probably forget about in a few years. Thanks Dark!!
They had a lot of characters from different shows and theater as they had a theater day or week, can't remember it right now, in school. It was written in German on the posters in school.
I watched all three seasons in the last three days. All I can say is that I'm still trying to attach the right side of my brain to the left. Amazing. Will have to re-watch again to understand it all.
Even if you are not interested in a certain character's plotline, you can't not pay attention because it might show something new.
I also love how the play Ariadne foreshadows the set of labyrinth.
Yeah when the went to Katarina and locked up Ulrich I was like meh, but then, the beach, the necklace in the sand I was like Oh! Oh! Thats the necklace, That’s the legend.
It took me all day & a second watch to truly understand. I thought to myself during the first watch "hey does any of this make since" but after dissecting it all the elements came together. Dark will go down as one of if not the most ambitious sci fis of all time!! I'm going to miss this show.
PREACH
i liked your comment and removed the like again to maintain the 33 likes omfg
@@MrVaishakh13 x2
Episode 6 took me at least 2 hours to finish I was rewinding like a mad man. I will definitely be taking notes when I rewatch. This show is so amazing. When it finally ends it turns into one of the greatest love stories I've ever taken in. A tragedy comparable to Romeo & Juliet.
Don't forget the mother's love. Claudia invested all her life to find a way for her daughter to live.
Funfact, as Martha is into theatre, she is a Fan of Shakespeare and has Posters about him in her room
I’d argue DARK is the gold standard of TV, period.
@Kyel ! I personally couldn't get into GOT unfortunately. It's exceptionally well done. Acting, music and overall production are all superb. I just for some reason didn't connect with any of the characters and wasn't interested in the story. I can definitely see why it's so popular though!
@@reddragon0519871 you were more “connected” with the characters in dark mate? 🤔that’s interesting I love dark but I wouldn’t say it’s even in the same league as GOT when it comes to great and memorable characters
@@raymondsims7042i saw you on another dark review
@@bessidahorse yeah I love dark!!
@@raymondsims7042I can somewhat agree, even though I think, Adam beats many GoT Antagonists, maybe even all
I have had this show on my to watch list for years and never got around to it. With Season 3 approaching I finally started to watch the show, not even realizing that it was the final season until the last episode. I watched it slowly over a couple weeks but my mind is just absolutely blown. What an incredible show. I consider myself lucky in retrospect of being able to enjoy the whole story from start to finish all at once because this is all time classic work. Absolutely outstanding. I am lost for words. I also couldn't stand the dubbed English and watched it in German with the subtitles, which I highly recommend to anyone that hasn't watched it yet. The dubbed English audio just really strips a lot of the heart and soul out of the show.
One way to keep track of the Martha's was to pay attention to the placement of her small eye cut when it was on the right side she was in Jonas world & the left was Martha's. The Martha that was influenced by Jonas never traveled to Marthas world after she was intervened on by Magnus & Franziska.
Over all in the last 3 years Dark has been the best tv series. Specially after all the build up, they still delivered a very good ending. Kudos to Deutschland!
Danke!
I agree, I would go as far as saying that it is the best series ever made. But that is just my opinion after watching a LOT of shows.
This is probably my favorite series of all time now I’m gonna be looking for something else to watch and compare it to this it’s gonna be hard to find something this good again.
Absolutely brilliant show with almost no distracting or annoying flaws, and an amazingly satisfying and and elegantly simple resolution. It managed to accomplish in 3 seasons what GOT completely failed to do in 8. I will certainly rewatch the whole thing in coming years, both to make sure I never forget it, as well as to catch more details I may have missed and have an overall deeper understanding of how it all works. I'm still just kind of sitting in awe of the whole thing and feeling privileged to have seen it.
The longer I think about, the better the ending gets. There really was no other way to do it in a satisfying way; not to a level like this. There was a point in the final when I gasped and thought .. are Jonas & Martha _causing_ it all when they pop up on the street, but it all played out good. The ending is so straight forward there are not many questions left to even ask. Minor things, yes, and we may get/find answers along the line - but the show itself closed the loop on itself with an ending that makes you smile and be sad at the same time. This is how a bittersweet ending should feel like!
Exactly, it's a bittersweet ending. It's kinda ironic that it worked out bittersweet considering Adam & Eva spent so long trying to make everything happy by creating "paradise" but by trying to do that they were actually creating an infinite loop of sadness. But as soon as they decide to work together they create an ending that is both happy and sad.
When they appeared in front of the car and tannhaus son tried to avoid them I thought OMG they cause the accident, this is also part of the loop, this nightmare will never end
Dark series also shown reincarnation as a quantum Immortality concept, Katherina died in first world and reborns in second World, she then died in second World during apocalypse but her soul remembers her suffering during the lost of Mikkel that's why she was hugging Mikkel during apocalypse, Peter died in first world and reborns in second World, that's why he was feeling like he have met Jonas, when Jonas first time came to his world, because he have given him therapy, Martha have also born in second World that's why she was saying that when I met you Jonas I felt I met you before, Magnus Does all time travel thing with Jonas and reborns in second World and that's why he was satisfied during Apocalypse of second World because he have done so much work so his soul was satisfied. Similarly Francisca also done so much work and reborns in second second World and she was not having voice because she disrespected her sister who can't speak and her soul was also satisfied during Apocalypse of second World. but Jonas born again in his own universe but in Scrodinger cat theory, quantum immortality, that's why he never born in second World because he was always present in his world, his soul never gone their to reborn. But they all reborn in third world through different parents and reunited. The paradise.
yes it may possible that quantum immortality concept of quantum physics can exist in real we just don't know that we are immortal and we will be become our Ulternate version of Scrodinger cat experiment, as Jonas felt something when he first read the letter of Martha, because he knows then only that The lines he said to real Martha can't be known by the Martha of other world. So it may be all version of all characters were past and future life of each other. And that is why he became Adam from Jonas.
There is also a hint given in episode 5 of season 2 that in staring scene Middle Jonas dreamed where he is with Teenage Martha on bed and then suddenly Martha belly Ejects black liquid and that was their son, the origin, he was shocked because Adult jonas never goes to Martha for intercourse on bed , but because in true sense he goes to Martha world and died and reincarnated in alternate version.
And this song just was playing during Stranger Jonas was on work, indicating that he is done dying
I'm as American as they come. Honestly, I can't stand foreign shows/subtitles/dubs. Because of that, it took me three separate tries to finish episode 1 (probably most boring episode of whole show on second watch). But MAN, I cannot reiterate strongly enough how much I loved this show. Breaking Bad will always be #1 for me, but Dark is #2 no question about it. Definitely more mind blowing and artistic. I am grieving the end of this show.
I'm happy you overcame that! They're are so many good movies outside of the US and maybe you're open to more of that now
Too bad Stephen Hawking isn’t around to see it .He could do a great review.
He will be - in 33 years in the parallel world :-D
I binge watched the whole season and was so fucked up afterwards that I had an insanely vivid dream about my long dead grandma and that I somehow died with her in a parallel time line and my life is so terrible because I should be dead. I'm not in a good place...
Best original series on Netflix
Hannah's calendar having different " x " marks afterAdam kills Martha and circles the 27th in end of season 2 gives away there was a split in time line. The book with 3 world Charolette was gazing at was a slight hint of 3 worlds.
Dark is truly remarkable. Thank you for your review.
By far the best show I’ve ever watched
One of the smartest and most complex TV series I've ever seen...hauntingly beautiful with original plot, great cast and amazing soundtrack😍👍🏼
This show deserves all the awards and attention. Definitely one of the best sci-fi shows I’ve ever seen. Beautiful ending, I loved it.
I also loved the ending. The show is definitely a masterpiece.
Through I wonder if Jonas had a nickname of "Long Pause" Kahnwald? I don't know how many times I kept making circular motions with my hands, "Come on, Jonas, Out with it!". Of course he over-compensates as Adam with his long winded expositions.
My drinking game would be, start drinking when the camera is on Jonas and waiting for him to speak, and by the time he speaks, we'd be drunk.
Anyway, brilliant season and show,
WOW. This is SUCH an incredible review. I’m sooo in love with this series certainly the best I’ve seen in a very long time... maybe EVER
Great to see that you’ve enjoyed it and you are just as amazed as I am, you’ve really described it for what it is 👌🏾
Season was brilliant, enjoyed every second. Glad they left us the eye patch mystery to theorize on. 😂
John Frum the show took you on a ride. The cycles were being carried out and the characters we watched were all playing their part. They had awareness of being in a cycle but not the ability to break free. All that really happens is a slow zoom out of the situation. We start with just a child going missing and then we keep seeing more and more of the picture until the last two episodes where we get to see the whole thing. When we get to see the whole thing, that’s when the characters get to break free and we get our Donnie Darko sacrifice. If they had done it any differently we wouldn’t be able to get these beautiful drama filled interpretations of time travel paradoxes. The show hits on all these time travel phenomenon but puts in a drama that you can track from start to finish. The story of self sacrificing Donnie, I mean Jonas is a basic one no doubt. The constant manipulation of characters to get them to do and feel certain things is frustrating, I was legit yelling at the screen and begging for something to change for two seasons, season 3 I learned my lesson and just sat back and enjoyed the ride. I feel like my intelligence grew from contemplating all the time paradoxes and all the bootstrap repercussions. It was a joy to work through the frustration. I had a satisfaction at the end like after you untangle a pair of really knotted up headphones. Your complaining and cussing the whole time but damn it feels good to have it untangled and it still be functional. This has surpassed Da Vinci’s Demons as my favorite show.
BEST SPACE/TECH SCI-FI: THE EXPANSE
BEST TIME TRAVEL SCI-FI: DARK
Agree?
yes, the expanse is underrated as hell too, really glad that Amazon picked it up.
I love both, and if you know the Expanse Books, you know there is much more coming.....
Definitely agree
agreed on the expanse... best time travel still is 12 monkeys... but theres a new show called recursion coming up soon, based on novel, now that will be crazy.
For me, what stood out is the fact the HG Tannhaus' invention actually worked; no matter how much suffering it brought, in the end it fulfilled it's purpose of leaving his son and his son's family alive. The entire world we saw was just a tragic side-effect of a successful process created by one "small" man to solve one "small" issue. A tiny point, a singularity in time, created the entire Universe we saw between two worlds, four main families, dozens of philosophical questions and a shit-ton of confusing connections I that turned into lines in a big paper hanging on my room's wall as I tried to follow the plot. Between all of that, it also created a passion for us. Great show!
I'm glad they justified the End we were hoping for. Satisfied.
Idea for drinking game:
Every time Noah acts edgy drink
Noah was an awesome character in season 1 and 2. Everytime the scene got tense, I would whisper to myself, "here comes Noah" and bang! He wasn't the same in season 3 though lol too much of a family man
Lmao whenever he says "I am noah" you have to drink two
Osama84ca season 3 was technically a prequel for Noah so before he became what he was in 1 and 2
@@Osama84ca Lmao I ACTUALLY had convinced myself when he appeared in that Rolls Royce in the forest lane wayy back in season 1 that he was the devil come to a small town posing as a priest. 🤣🤣 I was a bit off there....
Every time when someone says 'you'll know when the time is right'
Wow..
This man just collected all my thoughts,
and expressed it in the most intelligent way possible.
I was soo worried about season 3,
and i'm beyond happy how much it blew my expectations away.
I'm literally sad it's over, because idk how anyone can top this..
Welcome back glad to hear you perspective on this series.
I think you are absolutely WONDERFUL! Your reviews, insights, and enthusiasm are ... BEYOND, bro! ..... All Season's Greetings (past, present, and future) ... and ... looking forward to MUCH MORE in New Year 2023. CHEERS! Patrick.
Watching Season 3, I thought oh fuck, they're doing too much, being too extra, there was a part of me, admittedly that thought Im going to hate this season, but finding out the Orgin was a beautiful thing, and a tragic thing as Jonas and Martha never existed anymore, Jonas fought so hard to save Martha, that it was a vicious cycle he couldn't stop.... I personally am so glad there's not going to be a Season 4, while I'm going to miss these characters and the story, honestly I can't take 100 scenarios to stop Jonas or Martha :)
Spoiler
After 3 years and 3 Seasons my Brain can take a rest finally :)
Oh Boi...What a ride!!!
In the end at the final table you can really see the consequence from these Familys in both Worlds!
Im really happy to see Dark hit the landing and answered (for me) all important questions
and in the end of s3 ep8 (after 3 years of theory) i got a big smile in my face and tears in my eyes... Bravo!
The crew, the writer, the director, man.looks like it is a passion project. New details I find blows my mind everytime I watch it back.
I finished the show today (I know I was pretty late to the party because I decided to watch season 1 & 2 again before watching season 3). I was totally stunned by how good and satisfying Dark is. My goodness. Not only its time travel story telling is convoluted but eventually rewarding, the entire show tells love and sacrifice stories in every plot details. The love and sacrifice the parents are willing to make for their kids, and so is the love (and sometimes hate) between lovers. There were hopes and disappointments among the characters and in the end we realized that they were never meant to exist but they were, for a long, torturing and yet bittersweet while. The finals words between Jonas and Martha were really touching as it reflected way back to just a few simple lines in Season 1. I’ve never watched a Sci-fi series that great. Now I don’t know what I should watch next.
I didnt took notes at all. I can give the advice to watch this Series at twice, because you understand things better then. I did it and i understood 100%
and i love that tiny scores
and i cryed the second time at the end - because they all died for a good reason and then the Music gives the emotions extra punch
I would've liked old man Helge Doppler to pop up in the last scene of the finale muttering "it's happening again tik tok"
The only series which raised the standards of viewers
Just finished watching the 3rd cycle! WOW! Great review James! You hit it on all points. I didn't rewatch any of the previous seasons. As you said, I felt I was in good hands with these story tellers. But some day, I look forward to rewatching this all again. Not binge it, but savor the whole story fresh! I haven't been this blown away in a tv show since Archie Bunker reveled his childhood nickname was "Shoe bootie". LOL But anyways, now to watch your discussion with Binge Zone!
Happy 4th!
I had a mental breakdown after watching Season 3 ..... It is called Dark for some reason... if you see beyond the series... its really dark and impacts you directly in real life.
Really surprised everyone seems to have loved the ending. I was a bit disappointed. It felt very plot driven, with characters making odd decisions in order to take the plot where the writers wanted it to go. Also, though they did a good job of tying up loose ends, to me it felt like that’s what they were doing, rather than revealing those ends as integral parts of the story.
Still, really enjoyed the journey and I can’t rule out totally changing my mind about the end after a rewatch.
I really loved the story about angel necklace that traveled time and space and how it belonged to Katarina, and then it got to Jonas and Martha. That was just so amazing
This really must go down amongst the best shows of all time. By the end there were 2 sometimes 3 versions of character over 6 timelines inhabiting 3 parallel universes yet it somehow all made sense.
Also it was half way through the final season that i realised the significance of the shows title, opening song and title sequence. Utter genius.
I still don’t understand when and how In Adam’s and Eve’s timeline they were able to discover one another’s world?
Who discovered the other’s world first?
I do understand the 2 different timelines of Jonas and Martha. However:
Why would Adam ask Magnus and Franzika to send Martha to save Jonas just to create the origin only to kill her and the origin, as well Jonas dies that time line?
In the other timeline where Jonas goes to the basement the origin would never be created, this is due to Eve sending Bartaoz to stop Martha from saving Jonas, however she wants to origin to be created?
Yes it's great that Netflix made this possible, but I'm still mad that they cancelled the OA, because that was definitely on the same level as Dark.
(Just figure, they cancelled the OA but gave Anther Life a second season, it's unbelieveable.) Dark, the OA and also Mr. Robot, are among the best televison series of this millenium. Last thought: you know that famous line "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" Well, it's almost impossible to handle the truth of Dark. But it's worth trying.
Yeah I was thinking the same, cause I think the creators planned everything out in The OA and wanted to make the big reveal at the end. So sad.
There’s actually 3 young Marthas running around. In addition to the old and middle aged one we get a total of 5 Marthas
"don't watch all three seasons back to back, it'll ultimately just kill you" 😂 So true! I remember at one point just pausing it and screaming at the TV "where the fuck am I!!??" 😂😂. I text my son " this show is like Back to the Future on Bath Salts!!"
I love the parts where something is explained but hasn't happened yet. For instance where Magnus was teasing Martha about the legend of the dead lady in the lake and Jonas finding the St. Christopher medal in the sand, when Katerina was at Dr. appt with Mikkel and not killed by her mom yet!
Holy fuck the dead lady in the lake, it Was their mother!!!! FUUUCCCKKK
Yea about that I finished the series in 3 days and I almost died of the amount of craziness
@@Colencence... mind blown 😁😂 that St Christopher revelation was the most mind blowing piece for me. I thought they'd forget how it ended up there in the lake. Oof!
Drinking game:
Each time a character says the word "Zeit" we take a shot.
Everytime the Time Changes, take a Shot. Dies at EP7 :D
zeit zitoune
"in meiner Welt und deiner Welt" for S3 will destroy your liver
How about: “Es tut mir (so) leid.” (“I’m (so) sorry.”)
On Point like Always James!
"Dark" was a Hell of ride (in 3 timelines) ;)
Thank you and Greetings from Germany
Endlich mal eine hervorragende deutsche Serie
@@robinwillmann6693 Yeah
My head was spinning after the first few episodes of season 3 that I had to go sleep it off, what a ride indeed. The show also spoke to me on a philosophical level where I kept on thinking about the little story by Chuang Tzu “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
What a ending brought a tear to my eye a series well done and original with a ending
My favourite show ever, if this was an English speaking series everyone would be talking about it. Head was melted for the first couple of episodes of season 3 but it all came together perfectly and probably the most satisfying ending to a series I've ever watched.
This show made my mind go into full circle the way it did on it’s worlds. In the first season the plot twist was already revealed right in the title theme. And later when Taunhaus explained the concept of the 3rd dimension. I thought it was interesting and I also believed in the concept of that third choice existing. I paid no mind to it until season 3 came and I hate myself for brushing it off. I was too annoyed and wrapped up in the whole loopty doo mess that is Jonas and Martha.
The ending was so sad...
With everything that happened, what makes you say that?
@@titusspellings5877 the worlds disappeared so yes it's sad for all the characters except the ones not affected by jonas and martha
@@tony-bh3td this is what Dark teaches us: let things go and let people live without suffering.
I think it's a happy ending. The issues with us(us being human beings) is that we think we should tell others when they should live and die. If someone is so miserable and suffering why should "we" tell them "you can stop living, continue to suffer". Its like assisted suicide. If a person has exhausted every option to make them happy why is it our place to tell them to continue to suffer. I'm not saying let people commit suicide at the slightest sign of something bad happening but if they have no hope then by all means do what will help you, and sometimes that may be to simply end the suffering. I know that's not gonna be a popular take but why should we tell any other person they must suffer to make us feel better thinking we are helping them.
It was a fine ending. I was only disappointed that Adam and Old Martha didn't have a similar interaction as the younger versions did.
That this show was able to stick the landing is one of the greatest feats in entertainment history. Dark is a true masterpiece.
I just wanted to say, I watched all 3 seasons back to back, and I'm still alive. And to tie it up in two episodes was brilliant! I bet if I rewatch this, there are scenes that belong to the other world, but I just didn't notice.
It is one of the greatest TV series ever produced. Top 10 without question.
Agreed
I love it and you're review is great! The best thing I took from season 3 is the feeling of the characters entrapment in the loop. It was urgent and chaotic. By episode 7, I felt the fatigue of all the positioning of moments and people so everything happens all over again. Paradise could be their total release from the loop and the hope for their origin selves to lead lives free of their entangled desires.
As good as the ending was, I do think season 3 suffered a bit. I felt that layering on Martha's world only served to confuse the narrative. It didn't really bring anything to the table for me, and in some respects felt like it undermined the characters we had spent time with.
Whereas the first two seasons seemed to progress a character-based mystery, the last season just felt like a barrage of confused atomatons being told what to do by Adam and Eva. How many times in season 3 did we hear someone has been lying, or the phrase "in his world ... And in hers". It got repetitive to the point of parody.
Another problem is Deus Ex Claudia just shows up in the last episode to explain everything in one extended monologue. I'm still not even sure why Claudia disintegrated out of existence, since her bloodline would not have been altered.
Overall the season had some great moments but it was extremely muddled, borderline unfollowable, yet saved by a great ending.
Did anyone else notice Macbeth poster in Hannah’s room?
i feel bad for people that haven't watched this... show is mindblowing..
This is the most brilliant show I’ve ever seen in my life bro
Lots of murders in Season 3. The 3 who are killed using a choke wire by Martha's son. Bartosz killed by his son Noah ( S2). Good Old Helge kills Ulrich. Katarina murdered by her mum. Hannah killed by her son Jonas as a younger Adam. Claudia kills her older self. Peter killed. I am sure I may have missed one or three. I love the cheeky humour at the end where we see Woller for the second time about to reveal what happened with his eye, only to be interrupted by thunder. Hilarious.
Tronte killed Regina in 2053
batman Yeah I wasn’t sure to include that one. I thought it was a kind of mercy killing.
I think those are a bit too excessive. The killing should be done with more purpose. Like Mikel's suicide. I feel like a lot of the killing scenes other than the Unknown are excessive. Things don't have to go that far.
YEN I kind of agree. I don’t know why, but I didn’t feel comfortable about some of those killings, though I suppose at that point, we knew they were still alive in the other world.
@@danjsilve I got what the script writer is going but it almost makes it less realistic. I think the previous 2 seasons the conflicts and killings were more "real.'
Especially the part where Jonas killed his mother. I was like what the hell? He could tie her up and still repeat the same process. Why does he have to kill her?
watched the series back to back to back and wtf...best stuff have seen in a while.i loved how every story line was tied up (sorry katharina and hannah in the realities) and attention to detail,pure wow!!!
Love your views on the show. 2 questions if anyone cares to answer- 1. What was the significance of black tar on Michael (season 1) and Martha (season 3) near cave?, and, when they made very clear that even if Jonas will try to kill himself he cannot because his older version already exists, why he dies in Eva's world - is this because he 'travelled' where he is 'not supposed to exist"
The black tar is just the dark matter that is required for time travel
@@AtlantaGuns so it is more symbolic then?
HappyGo Lucky yea it’s kinda like a warning to destroy it somehow.
Season three is in? Well thank you for bringing this to my attention. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to stop flapping my arms and squealing, change my undies then go relax and try to watch this in a calm and mature manner.
I have to admit, I find this show confusing. I love it, but I do get lost, trying to follow which character is which and in which timeline. It's not the shows fault. I'm a dummy. The show actually does extremely well casting the actors. Not only are they all good actors, but most of them really do resemble their younger or older selves. It's remarkable actually, but I find I'm always trying to remember who's who more than anything else. I've had to watch each season more than once in order to have it stick in my brain. Well worth it though. This show is incredible. Addendum: Finished the season and was blown away. My brain caught up to the details of the story around episode 6, and once I was able to attribute who was working for which side, I was able to follow without worry. The ending was perfect, and satisfying imo!
“And definitely don’t watch all three seasons back to back, it will straight up kill you.”
Thank god I didn’t do that 👀💀
I had a massive headache going to bed that night and into the next morning. So I agree with this sentiment, in retrospect.
I discovered your channel when you started watching Legion. I come back to you just as excited for Dark.