Amazing episode and superb acting from John Turturro. I audibly gasped a couple times, easily the best new TV I have seen in a while.
Amazing episode and superb acting from John Turturro. I audibly gasped a couple times, easily the best new TV I have seen in a while.
I’d recommend Dark if you want another sci-fi show that’s different. It’s a little closer to the usual sci-fi with time stuff, god particles, and other similar tropes but it plays a lot more with philosophical themes, the process of history, identity, and other fun things.
yesss dark is so good! i just really like how the show takes itself seriously and doesn’t feel like it can be commercialized like stranger things. the storytelling is really well done and it doesn’t overexplain itself which i find really refreshing.
I honestly had trouble wrapping my head around some of Dark, very cerebral
Dark is another all-timer for me! People sleep on it, but it’s one of the few “Streaming Era” shows I think genuinely needs to be analyzed and stolen from by writers. It’s just plain good storytelling. It had such a rich cast of characters, motivations, inter-personal narratives, and a lot of subtle emotional beats.
Did you see the creators’ other show, 1899? It was cancelled but the first season was pretty interesting.
I watched the first episode, but never returned to it. Not of lack of interest, just one of those “I’ll get around to it” but just haven’t yet.
What I liked most about it was it knew why we were watching this particular instance and knew why it was ending.
spoiler
The reason were seeing this iteration of the time loop is because it’s the iteration that has deviated from the previous hundreds or thousands time loops. That’s where the series starts. It knows why we want to see this loop, but not the other loops or even the first loop. The show ends because the loop finally gets closed. They could have easily dragged it on for more seasons, but the writers knew they had reached a perfect ending.
Really shows what having some conviction in your own storytelling can do. Too many shows don’t have confidence in what they’re doing and end up spiraling into nonsense.