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Time Travel in Dark: Back to the Past
Time travel is all the rage lately. It’s been used in everything from the latest series of Twin Peaks to Avengers: Endgame (spoilers ahead for both of those…you’ve been warned). The Netflix TV show Dark has many good qualities but what impressed me most was the way it utilised time travel. It manages to do […] More
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in Series
The Old Must Give Way to the New: Angst and Weltschmerz in Netflix’s Dark
He is of this cursed ghost town, and will remain of it, part of all these things that are so much greater than he. Look, I say to you. Look with him as he closes his eyes, as he dies, knowing that in the sleep of death no more dreams will come. – Rory Maclean, […] More
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in Seasons
In Dark Season 2, Everything Is Connected (and Everyone Is Related)
Fans of Netflix’s Dark know that everything is connected across time and space. The present changes the past, the past changes the future, and it’s all one never-ending dance (even if the dancers don’t know it). In light of Season 2, the Season 1 plot twist that Mikkel Nielsen was also Jonas’s father, Michael Kahnwald, […] More
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in Series
Dark: Loops and Choices — A Primer on the Grandfather Paradox
The core of Netflix’s 2017 drama series Dark is time travel. Talked about, meditated over, and weighed as fantastical or terrible by the different characters in the series, it provides not just the impetus for the plot of the show, but the philosophical conundrums the characters consider and exist within. The problem is time travel, […] More
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in Series
Dark: The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning
A couple months ago we started discussing the future of this site and began promoting that future: here we are now, with the first article under our “Cult TV” moniker! A dual language review of Netflix’s Dark, Season One. For more on this new feature, please see the article “What is Cult TV?” For a German […] More
