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Mild spoilers..We open on a bunker in the woods. It's filled with old photographs, newer ones, newspaper clippings, grenades, rifles. All sorts of things. A narrator lets us know that time is just a loop, it repeats, the past comes back to bear on the present.Dark takes place in the fictional town of Winden, whose forested surroundings are dominated by the cooling towers of a nuclear power plant.When a young boy disappears and a body is found in the woods, the resulting mystery seems to point to the nuclear plant.I've been expecting this series to be good, but the first episode completely blew me away. I mean, it's just an utterly incredible episode, and it's got me hooked. The cinematography, combined with the locations, the sets, is absolutely out of this world.Whole episode had a dark tone with a hair- raising soundtrack.Some weird things were left unexplained but that's what got me hooked for the next epiosde,especially the last scene.

I know many people are comparing it with stranger things but it is different in many aspects.Tense, weird and mind-bendingly complicated, Dark grabs you from the opening scene and relentlessly strangles you into submission in this gripping thriller. Despite the slight similarities to Stranger Things, comparing the two would be doing Dark disjustice. The two shows are completely different with Dark far more complex and sinister in its approach. Thought provocative, mature themes are explored throughout the series too and fully fleshed, complex characters help to elevate this German sci-fi show. There are times where its unnecessarily convoluted; the plot jumps between time periods with reckless abandon making it hard to follow at times but if you can persevere through this, Dark is an incredibly complex puzzle that's well worth taking the time to solve.It is unique blend of different genres,It's certainly TV Shows ERA now I can't believe so many shows are coming one after another,Even if it was my first time watching a show in German language I Didn't notice once.

I want to make known that I've only watched the first episode so far: Watching this episode i felt like i was having a deja vu; one where the worlds of twin peaks and stranger things collide. Common settings and storylines, the same visuals; same psychological feeling when watching the show. However, there's no denying that Dark doesn't lack authenticity and originality. Although inspired by the two shows mentioned before, i feel like all the secrets and narratives that are going to unfold soon will make Dark a masterpiece of its own.

DARK is a spooky German TV show with a sci-fi twist. I heard it was best to go in knowing very little about it, which is what I did. Immediately from the first episode I was in love with the style; a constant bombardment of information regarding family and social relationships between characters in a small town, along with spooky set-pieces and creepy plot elements, plus a big surprise at the climax. It reminded me a little of the quality of THE RETURNED, and I'm instantly hooked and intrigued as to where it goes from here.

Resume of events of the episode1 :No.

In June 2019, 43-year-old Michael Kahnwald commits suicide, but his mother Ines hides his suicide letter before anyone else notices it. On 4 November, after nearly two months of treatment at a psychiatric facility, Michael's teenage son Jonas returns to school and reunites with his best friend Bartosz Tiedemann, who is now dating Jonas's love interest, Martha. Erik Obendorf, the high school's main supplier of marijuana, has been missing for two weeks, and police officer Ulrich Nielsen - the father of Martha and her brothers, teenager Magnus and pre-teen Mikkel - has been assigned the investigation, which struggles to uncover any clues. Meanwhile, Ulrich is cheating on his wife, high school principal Katharina, with Jonas's mother Hannah. While searching for Erik's stash of drugs in a cave not far from the town's soon-to-be-closed-down nuclear power plant, Jonas, Bartosz, the three Nielsen children, and Franziska Doppler are frightened by strange sounds and their flickering flashlights, and Mikkel disappears as they flee the cave. The next day, the body of a young boy is discovered, but it is not Mikkel. At an unknown location, a hooded figure straps Erik to a chair, while clamping a mechanism around his head.

Review: Good start. Have some elements of mystery, characters development, we asked some question about them. Some mysteries are in place and we wonder what happened? And we are more curious after the end of this episode and we want to see more. Need more to have a complete review but its a good start.

Nothing of any intrigue happens beyond the ominous letter and where Erik is. That is it, there are no plots, characters or settings that feel intriguing to me. Dark's pilot is intermittently creepy with some decent moments. But in the end, it falls flat with it's odd pacing and weird story structure.

From the first scene, it had me hooked. It's difficult to know where this is going to go, but one thing they've got right is the atmosphere. So many shows attempt to create this dark atmosphere but "Dark" is true to its name by actually accomplishing it with its perfect lighting, haunting imagery and discordant soundtrack. The atmosphere really is perfect, and it's worth watching just for that even if its story turns out not to deliver. But I think the story will deliver. The mysteries here are set up surprisingly quickly, and with intent. Who is the hooded figure? Where is Erik and what is being done to him? Is Mikkel dead or is he in the past? What was behind Michael's suicide? Why did the letter have to be opened at that specific time?

One of my favourite moments is when a child's body is found, and the 80s walkman signifies the child is not from this time. It's a hell of twist on the traditional murder mystery. And in terms of cinematography, one of the most memorable scenes is actually the several-minute one-take introduction to the Nielsen family, which also features some of the only humour you can find in this dark series. There's also a real attention to detail throughout, with pretty much nothing you see being unintended. The raider bar that is found, for example, is actually a twix bar but in Germany they were called raider until 1991.

So far, the promise is there that the story will deliver too as various plot threads are set up involving a suicide, an unopened letter and a disappeared child. There are a few issues. One is the deliberately withheld information with Michael's letter. I'm not against deliberately held information if the fact it's deliberately withheld is disguised well, but Michael's letter has such an intriguing premise, not to be opened until a certain time... and then you don't see its contents when it is opened. There are a few moments where ithis episode missteps into cheesiness, such as when teenagers approach a cave and their flashlights start flickering. There's some heavy-handedness too. Jonas and Martha constantly looking at each other is continually done even though we got the point the first time. And the whole 'everything is happening again after 33 years' line which is uttered by a couple of the characters seems like a forced thing for them to say. It's just a heavy-handed way of saying, 'look, this is a show about time travel and interconnectedness!'

Great stuff overall. And it feels like it's going to get even better.

8.5/10

A show like Dark doesn't come around very often. I binge watched it a couple of weeks ago and have felt like a part of me was missing since finishing it. I've been drawn back into a 2nd viewing, and this episode is even better with all the extra knowledge that I now have.

A lot of reviews on here are making comparisons to Stranger Things and Twin Peaks, and while I completely agreed with them initially, this show far surpasses them and comes into its own after the first few episodes. There's maybe a little bit too much information and characters thrown into frame for a first episode, in fact I had to find a character tree online (which I highly recommend) in order to learn faces and names, but beyond that the premise and setup are executed amazingly. The opening 5 minutes is one of the most intriguing starts to a show that I've seen in a long time. The credits and song are beautiful too.

This first episode asks a lot of questions, and it presents itself as a show that demands your full attention if you want to find the answers. Don't sit and scroll on your phone, don't get up and make a coffee, just watch and enjoy.

It's incredible and we're hooked. Twix bars were called Raider bars in Germany until 1991 like Snickers used to be called Marathon in the UK. Imagine finding a new-condition chocolate wrapper that has not been made for 26 years. A person could possibly gave kept a box closed all this time, removed the gone-off chocolate and thrown the empty wrapper on the ground, but it is still a very odd thing to find., The candy bar wrapper was significant because 'Raider' is what Twix were used to be called in Germany. It was changed in 1991 so finding that wrapper in such a good condition is an immediate clue that only Europeans might get. An amazing one at that and then you're watching it with subs. That's just so great since the actors all deliver such an amazing performance so watching this with the original audio is the best way to go. You're definitely gonna enjoy it!

So, Dark has been around for a while now. Hard to believe it was 5 years ago all my friends and family were telling me to watch this. I had just come off watching some HBO masterpieces (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Soprano's and The Wire), so when I looked up this show briefly it just seemed a bit ridiculous, especially coming off the back of some of them other shows, I just wasn't in the mood for something like this.

Episode 1, sets us up nicely. We start off with a quote about time and relativity from the one and only Albert Einstein. This alludes to the fact everything may not be as it seems. We meet a family, a young lad who has lost his father to suicide, a school which has lost a pupil due to going missing and a woman who reads a letter which has a time stamp on it. Does this all sound exciting and origional? Not particularly, but the way this is presented and the aesthetic of the episode, we all feel something isn't quite right.

I won't go into to any more detail about the episode assuming most people have seen this now, but my verdict? I did like this. I've not quite seen the masterpiece which everyone is saying it is (yet), but I'm sure it might come. There is enough intrigue and set up to want me watching more.

A note here that the score is incredible, really harrwoing and sets the mood for the series. That along with the camera work and production values you can see there is good work put in. The camera moves so fluidly in the certain scenes which draws the viewer in to what's going on, there are no crazy choppy edits. A slow burn which may have me hooked.

The story is set in germany and a nuclear plant is there . This is already a chilling start. To add on that add a boy is missing.

However "Dark" is not about the aforementioned chilling experience It is actually a twisted time travel saga which begins to unfold by the end of this episode. None of the characters are smiling, the dim lighting and the continous ominous music adds to the tension.

The town is portrayed as one of the calmer town, however in between it tells something similar happened 33 years ago. One of the prominent character Ulrich is cheating his wive, shown in the very beginning and you come to know that this incident will have long impact in the story.

Its a layered,convoluted story and hopefully the tied knots will slowly loosen up.