‘Dark’ Season 3 Review – Spoiler Free

The third and final season of German sci-fi series Dark was released on Netflix. Get your family trees ready: Netflix made a website with important information from previous seasons and spoiler free family trees. Depending on the episode you’re in, it may be worth it checking it out if you haven’t watched the previous seasons recently.

As some characters in the series have already put it: „Was wir wissen, ist ein Tropfen, was wir nicht wissen, ein Ozean“ (What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean). Nothing can describe Dark better than this Isaac Newton quote. Just when you thought you finally grasped the series, you realized, much like the characters, you still haven’t understood what’s really going on.

Season 3 starts immediately after the cliffhanger in the second season: the apocalypse is unleashed in Winden, shortly before Adam kills Martha (Lisa Vicari), forcing Jonas (Louis Hofmann) to continue the cycle and becoming Adam. Seconds before the apocalypse hits, Martha (from another world) appears and saves Jonas.

The first episode is essentially and introduction to this parallel world, a world where Mikkel (Daan Lennard Liebrenz) doesn’t disappear and therefore, Jonas doesn’t exist. As some may recall, Claudia Tiedemann (Lisa Kreuzer) tells Jonas that she had seen a world without him and it isn’t much better than his. This is that world, where children still disappear and the apocalypse still happens. The question still remains: what is the origin of all this? This season is at its core that; finding the origin. One side wants to destroy it, preventing everything from happening, and another trying to maintain everything as it was and keeping these two worlds connected in a never-ending cycle. An important part of these episodes is they tie loose ends, explaining how these cycles have come to be and answering remaining questions.

Dark is perhaps one of the best shows the last couple of years have given us. It is definitely the best Netflix Original and it’s resolution and ending just further prove this fact. What made this show so special is that it was never dumbed down or simplified just to make things easier for the audience: it required for the audience to really be involved and try to figure the puzzle out. This is an intrinsically complicated show, which nevertheless stayed coherent and delivered a fitting ending to this amazing story. It was a truly fantastic journey and we were lucky enough to see it unravel.

Winden, you’ll be missed.

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