Dark - Netflix

brevity · 05-10-2017 5:41pm #1

Dark tells the story of a modern German town torn apart when two children go missing. However, as you’ll see in the trailer, the answers to the mystery may not be found in the present. They may be in the past.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/time-bends-in-the-latest-teaser-for-netflixs-latest-sup-1819141279

This looks amazing. Really creepy vibe and some great cinematography.

peteeeed · 09-11-2017 11:30am

first trailer , looks really good

brevity · 01-12-2017 11:13pm

So this “dropped” today.

I watched the pilot and it’s quite good. Very tense affair with some genuinely creepy parts.

I’ve seen referred to as the German Stranger Things and I can kind of see that but this is much...darker.

Worth a watch though. I’m off to watch episode 2 now.

Slydice · 02-12-2017 1:10am

1st episode in.

This feels more OA than Stranger Things..

like.. maybe a more teenagery Stranger Thing dark.. with a cross of OA

Though... it is it's own thing for now.

Definitely a hook at the end of the episode.

Pawwed Rig · 02-12-2017 1:11am

Hopefully not as disappointing as OA.

Slydice · 02-12-2017 1:12am

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Hopefully not as disappointing as OA.

it doesn't have the thing that made the OA.. kinda unique in that OA way..

well.. not yet anyway

brevity · 02-12-2017 1:26am

The second episode was good too but they need to ease off on the music imo. It's a bit over the top. Some of the acting was a bit ropey too.

They didn't waste much time getting to the

time travel

stuff..

Marje · 03-12-2017 12:31pm

sugarman wrote: »

Just started this and pleasantly surprised.

Combo of Stranger Thing / AO / Twin Peaks with its own takes too.

Id probably have preferred it in German with subtitles, dubbing is a little off putting.

Change language to German and subtitles to English.

03-12-2017 5:23pm

Came to ask if it was dubbed or subbed for english , subbed it is for me. Cheers.

Slydice · 03-12-2017 6:38pm

From just the first episode, I'd say Subtitles and German would be the way to go.

The translations are ok but could probably be better. I checked the dubbing once or twice and the voices are very american and would probably feel off when the German stuff like police uniforms are on screen.

Basq · 03-12-2017 8:25pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Came to ask if it was dubbed or subbed for english , subbed it is for me. Cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebzNUekek0

Was looking forward to this, but haven't had a chance to sit down and watch a single episode yet. Maybe tonight.

pixelburp · 03-12-2017 11:45pm

Caught the first episode (German with subtitles ), and man it was laden with atmosphere and borderline tangible forboding, mixed with the kind of small town drama; a formula that you can draw a straight line all the way back to the likes of Twin Peaks. Good stuff at this post and aptly named.

03-12-2017 11:52pm

This is quality..way better than the OA or stranger things..half way through it dubbed now..meh, no point changing it now..

Slydice · 04-12-2017 1:29am

Just watched episode 2! Definitely I'm hooked!

So like, there's some great camera work being done here. One countryside aeriel view looks a bit like the way it was done in Arrival.

The scene

in yer mans garage when the cop finds the drugs

had a bit of a bladerunner look/feel to it.

The

kids suit with the skeleton

reminded me of Karate Kid.

The

1986 jump

is just plain cool cos who knows what they're gonna do there.

Definitely a bit more like Strangers Things. Though it's definitely more.. dark

Slydice · 04-12-2017 2:54am

Ok, show needs a binge warning! Episode 3 also has a hook at the end!

Really coming into its own now. Maybe a touch of similarity to

back to the future

but just in a very basic sense.

ryanch09 · 08-12-2017 2:27pm

Started watching this week, I've enjoyed the first 2 episodes, looking forward to getting through the rest of it.

Jolisa94 · 08-12-2017 6:33pm

Just watched the whole series over 3 days (i’m on sick leave). It’s different to Stranger Things and way superior to the OA, imo.

Love a good story and this kept me hooked all the way through, you really do need to pay attention.

Watched in German with subtitles, but feel i missed a few things, so plan to watch the dubbed version next.

Ferris_Bueller · 09-12-2017 12:33am

Half way through this now on episode 5, so far it is up there with the best thing's I've watched this year. Hard to not watch the whole thing in one sitting!

Slydice · 09-12-2017 12:41am

Episode 6!

Oh the feels

for the unfairness of the hotel managers situation getting cancer and beat up and accused of a false.. false rape accusation

The cave way of travelling to the past was done well. Though like.. I guess the more explaining they do there might weaken the plot device.

Agree that at this point... the story is weaving around itself and remembering the previous episodes is a good idea.

Basq · 09-12-2017 11:31am

It's good but I'm finding it a challenge to focus with all the characters - both their

2019 and 1986

versions.

Slydice · 09-12-2017 9:49pm

Basq wrote: »

It's good but I'm finding it a challenge to focus with all the characters - both their
2019 and 1986
versions.

Wait till you get to episode 7! :eek:

Just finished episode 7!
Hold on.. so..

the priest is from 1953!?

so like now

I'm wonderin is it going to go back further.. is this gonna be some f**ked up nazi experiment from WWII

10-12-2017 4:46pm

Starting episode 8 now....god it’s so good.
Really hope it ends well!!

Un1corn · 10-12-2017 10:21pm

Just watched episode one and two today. Great show. Very very dark. Also feels nice for me because I've been living in Germany for 7 years and can watch without subtitles

Always good to practice.

Slydice · 10-12-2017 10:22pm

episode 8

was messed up.. I was wincing away from the screen when he took the brick to the kid.

Kablamo! · 10-12-2017 10:23pm

I've just finished it and I don't know what to do with myself now. Really enjoyed it. Wonder will there be a second season?

Un1corn · 10-12-2017 10:35pm

If I like this will I like stranger things?

Kablamo! · 10-12-2017 11:10pm

Un1corn wrote: »

If I like this will I like stranger things?

They're quite different.

Ferris_Bueller · 11-12-2017 1:05am

Just after finishing it.

Not sure if I liked the ending. There are still so many questions unanswered. The "twist" at the end of the time traveller guy being Jonas was quite predictable I thought. You would have to assume there will be a second series based on the ending.

Loved it overall but I thought the last episode let it down a bit. Although if there is going to be a second season I will 100% be tuning in.

Agree it was very hard keeping up with all of the characters when they were jumping from decade to decade!

11-12-2017 1:26am

Finding this has more of a "The Returned" vibe off it. Nothing alike in terms of story etc. but if you liked the returned then this will tick a box or two.

Has similarities in terms of older and younger versions of characters with which I'm also having to think a lot about as the episodes go on.

peking97 · 11-12-2017 2:04am

Un1corn wrote: »

If I like this will I like stranger things?

Stranger things have happened!:)

Slydice · 12-12-2017 11:21pm

Just finished.

I was like... WHAAAaaaaaat?!?
but then I like.. yeeeeaaaaah I guess.

Yeah, decent production quality throughout. Just that

brick to the kid

scene was really

messed up

. Then seeing

the cop getting burst with three batons... I was .. yep, he kinda deserves it... cos ... well cos of what he did

The ending:

Woooo, dytopican future!. Could be good or bad.. or maybe not even renewed.

I wouldn't mind knowing where they are going with it.

Un1corn wrote: »

If I like this will I like stranger things?

Well..

No, not really. All this is spoiler for both shows so like.. there's a bit of commonality with the nostalgia for the 80s but Stranger Things is ...

.. like.. last warning for spoiler...

Stranger Things is less.. well dark and violent. It's way more 80s nostalgia. It's not time travel. It's really good though.. but in a way different way.

Now that's just Stranger Things season 1. Season 2... well... it's grand and I liked it. It's just nowhere near Season 1.. but that would be difficult. Season 1

just whallops you at the end.

TerrorFirmer · 14-12-2017 1:11pm

Watched 3 episodes in one sitting to get into it and it's pretty good. Both very like and unlike Stranger Things simultaneously.

The dubbing is horrible, though - bizarrely the dubbing in Ep3 is pretty good with the newer characters, but the first two are awful - think of your typical anime/cartoon dubbed for western audiences.

Had to watch the first 3 dubbed, will be a bit strange switching to subtitles now but the weight of a lot of scenes is clearly lost completely with the dubbing.

16-12-2017 6:42pm

Really enjoyed it but hated the ending. Had faith throughout they wouldn't go that route for the end but they did. I guess they kind of had to though

so we see what Jonas was talking about with the future being bad

A lot still left to explain like who

Noah

really is.

Agent Coulson · 20-12-2017 7:58pm

Renewed for a second season.

cena · 20-12-2017 8:23pm

is it in english

21-12-2017 12:34am

cena wrote: »

is it in english

Can be if you set audio to english, but I watched in german with subs after 5 minutes of the 1st episode.

Pelvis · 21-12-2017 9:15pm

I'm 3 episodes in and it's just not grabbing me. The music is so, so bad! I listen with headphones so maybe it's not so bad who don't do this, but it's just jarring and so often out of place, and that's just the score providing atmosphere. They also seem to shoehorn music into scenes, especially the ones set in

86

like during the the

sheep autopsy. I get it, it's 1986, I don't need to be reminded by pointless music that just detracts from the scene

.

The Black Oil · 23-12-2017 8:05pm

I've just watched the first one which I thought was fairly creepy. It's like a blend of Stranger Things, Wayward Pines, The Returned and The Bridge.

La_Gordy · 24-12-2017 10:09am

Finished S01 and really enjoyed it. Some hard watching (

we all agree about the brick

, but I thought the acting and the setting were excellent. I also thought it was great that while there is the

timetravel

arch, each character has a distinct past and present, that all are explored.

Yggr of Asgard · 25-12-2017 3:10pm

Wow I'm glad I found this thread because after just finishing episode 1 I'm not now hooked and thanks to people using the spoiler tag in this thread to keep me entertained for the rest.

Birneybau · 26-12-2017 12:07am

I thought it was very good, hard to know who was who at times but, I personally enjoyed it much more than I did 'Stranger Things'.

On mobile so can't spoiler, I'll post more whenever

RobertKK · 26-12-2017 2:59pm

This is really good, you have to pay attention and use your brain or one would get lost.
Netflix continues to deliver.

Pelvis · 26-12-2017 9:55pm

It wasn't really grabbing me at the start but eps 4-7 I really got into.

Think it lost its way then again the last few episodes, it got a bit muddled.

If it doesn't get renewed then it was all a giant waste of time.

Cina · 27-12-2017 4:18pm

Pelvis wrote: »

If it doesn't get renewed then it was all a giant waste of time.

It has been.

gmisk · 30-12-2017 8:02pm

4 episodes in I must admit to getting a wee bit confused about who is who when it jumps back and forth but definitely rewards paying a lot of attention

Slydice · 30-12-2017 8:30pm

gmisk wrote: »

4 episodes in I must admit to getting a wee bit confused about who is who when it jumps back and forth but definitely rewards paying a lot of attention

it's worth keeping tabs

Irish_rat · 02-01-2018 3:36pm

How can Jonas end up in the future when he's stuck in that room which doesn't allow his future self to create the black hole.

Very good overall but it did lose a bit of momentum in the last quarter of the series. Will watch season 2

RobertKK · 05-01-2018 9:29pm

I don't think it lost momentum but more so one knew what was actually happening.

Irish_rat · 08-01-2018 12:32am

gmisk wrote: »

4 episodes in I must admit to getting a wee bit confused about who is who when it jumps back and forth but definitely rewards paying a lot of attention

Definitely worth watching it the second time. Nearly finished rewatching it. Only copped that the guard being the same head of force of the town going back

HalloweenJack · 08-01-2018 1:31am

Just finished it now.

Great show, keeps you hooked and wanting more, though the ending, especially the last line was cheesy.

I love the music, fwiw, very atmospheric.

Noah is a fascinating character. I wish they explained more about his backstory and his machine.

EDIT: Also wanted to add that I love the Ulrich storyline.

When he goes back to 1953 and he tries to kill Hegle, we know exactly why he's doing it but it was also fascinating to see him explaining himself to people in that time his reasons for doing so, which are rational considering what he's going through. It's only normal that Egon would think he's bonkers and that he was connected to the two dead kids found at the building site.

faceman · 09-01-2018 2:32pm

5 episodes in and it’s one of the best shows on Netflix. It’s so refreshing to watch a show of its calibre without an American life slant. More realistic characters, dialogue more relevant to Europe and less nostalgia nonsense.

The music really adds to it.

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