TV Series Review | DARK | Full English Review 2021
Towards the end of 2016, Netflix presented one of its best series. And nothing could be a bigger treat like a mystery + thriller + philosophical sci-fi on a winter night. The mystery begins with the disappearance of a boy in Winden, a small town in Germany. At first 1/2 episode may seem like a typical European crime drama. But cinematography and dialogue do not lose focus. There may also be some significance in focusing on yellow in different scenes (Yonas's yellow jacket, the school building's yellow doors and windows, the mysterious forest trees shaded with yellow flowers). One of the main characters again looks like Hannibal (!), And Mads, linked to the name Mikel; First of all, the name of Mads Mickelson comes to mind !!
"The question is not w̶̶h̶̶e̶̶r̶̶e̶, w̶h̶o̶ or h̶o̶w̶, but when." Seeing this line of the trailer, we get a hint of time travel. In this seemingly normal series you can find Stranger Things (Mystery of the Disappeared, Another World Portal in the Forest, Government's Topsicrate, 80's Nostalgia), or Lost (Purgatory and Time Loop), Back to the Future Adventures , The paradox of predestination. Even the GOT type fupu-nephew relationship was not left out!
The series is a 9 hour puzzle, and some parts of the puzzle are still missing. So don't wait until season 2 comes!
I have tried to remember the events with a few characters. So many unfamiliar faces, different timelines, again nonlinear (or maybe linear!) Narratives; It is very difficult to keep track of events by combining so many things.
The incident took place in four years 1953-198-2019-2052
Ulrich:
Tronte- Ulrikh, the son of Janar. His brother Mads went missing in the forest in 198 while he was in school. Ulrich's love affair with Katharina, and Hannah crushes over Ulrich again. So Jealous Hana hangs Ulrikh in Atonement style to Sheriff Egan, Egan can't see Ulrikh again before. Later, in 2019, she became the sheriff of the city, and despite having a happy family and three children (Magnus, Martha, Mikel) with Katharina, he had an affair with Hannah. After Mikel went missing in the forest on November 4, he investigated and found a connection between the loss of his brother and son in a forest cave (prohibited to the public as radioactive). She later found her brother's body, although she did not recognize it at first. Attempts to forcibly search the area's nuclear plant office failed. Looking through Mads' case file, he finds a mysterious connection with the half-mad old Helg (It'll happen again!). Chasing him, he entered the forest cave again, and left in 1953. There he was met by his father, Little Tronte, and his grandmother, Agnes. In 1953, the scientist went to Tanhos and presented him with a book written by Tanhos, and left him with his 2019 smartphone. Which is later used to make time machines. He was quite sure about the murderer in Helge. So he tried to kill the little Helge with a brick in front of Helge's cabin. The timeline may have changed if Helge had died, but he did not die, and Ulrikh was arrested for suspicious behavior. Because the bodies of two children (Eric and Yassin, who escaped through the wormhole) as well as Helge are missing. In the irony of fate, he fell into the hands of the young Sheriff Egan (who could not see him in 1986). He was imprisoned in 1953 due to the closure of Timeloop. While trying to kill Helge with his head at home, Ulrikh turned him into a murderer, most probably using a time machine to help Helge remove the trauma of his life.
Jonas:
Child of Hannah-Michael. The series begins with Michael's suicide, which causes Jonas to spend two months in hospital. When he returned to school, he found that his girlfriend, Martha (Ulrich's daughter), had gone to see his best friend, Bartosh. She goes to the forest to look for drugs with Martha and her three siblings and Bartosh. Incidentally, he and Mikel became separated. Shortly afterwards, Mikel is lost, and Jonas finds his father in disgrace. A stranger arrives in town and sends a 33-year-old letter to Jonas. After reading that, Jonas realizes that Jonas was born in 1978 by Michael and Hannah through Mikel Guhar Time Portal. Jonas then finds Mikel in 1968, seeing Mikel-Hanner's first acquaintance. Though he thinks of bringing her back, the stranger stops him because he will not exist then. But later he thinks that bringing Mikel back will solve everything. When Helge and Noah kidnapped him in 1976 for that purpose, they locked him up in the blue room of 1978. The stranger introduced himself as Jonas of 2052. Jonas did not burn his letter in 2052, and accepted the way things were going. But this timeline 2052-Jonas did not like, so he moved to 198, when Chernobyl's radioactive wormhole opened for the first time.
Sadly, 2052-Yonas actually stole cesium to shut down the time portal and turned on the machine, which originally created the 1965 portal. So it's a paradox. Whenever the Jonas portal is closed, it will be turned on.
2019-Jonas finally goes to the apocalyptic world of 2052, in the expressions of others it seems he has been there before. Most likely it's another new loop.
Noah:
The main villain of the series and the root of all kalakathi nara. Ulrich's father is in Tront, but Tront's father is a priest who may be an atheist. So it can be assumed that Noai is Tront's father. Sadly life will change, in the hope that Helge Noir will help build a time machine by committing murders. The wormhole opened when the child Helge was in the cabin in 1953 with a head injury, and Jonas moved to Finger in 1986, and that's probably when he met Noah.
There is a resemblance between Noah's back tattoo and an emerald tablet, with the addition of the word written on the door of the cave (sic mundus creatus est which means and thus the world was created). It is a kind of religion of occult believers, Noah may be their follower. It is also possible for Noah to be an Antichrist / Satan. Meanwhile, Noah's tattoo has similarities with the back wounds of 2052-Yonas, and the journal that Noah gives to Bartosh is that of 2052-Yonas. The relationship between them is not clear.
Noah somehow appeared to different people in 198 or 2019 using the 1953 portal. Helgs kidnaps Mads, Eric, Yassin, kills them and tries to make his own time machine (probably). Because he wants to go somewhere outside the 33-year-old loop. The blue room is actually in the cabin, through which the cave tunnel has gone, and the boys are being used as the energy of the machine.
Noah Bartosh may or may not. Their eye color is different, again Noah speaks of a man returning to the war as a child (2052-Jonas?) With whom Bartos has nothing to do. Dealing with Noah is the same as the "Deal with the Devil" for Bartos, the hints given with reference to the "Faust" story in episode 4, where a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
Claudia:
Claudia was a talent in 1953, the first CEO to join the plant in 1986. Helg understands different calculations from his father and finds discrepancies. Helping his daughter Regina hire Alexander, who has an illegal passport, to work at the plant, illegally sealing the plant's waste into the cave with him. Finding the lost dog in the cave and getting the book "A journey through time" from Helg, he finds out about time-travel. Regina - She first met Alexander's son Bartosh in 2019. But 2019-Claudia has probably traveled timetravel more than once at different times, Tanhaus's time machine has probably discovered that with her knowledge of physics. He also came to Tanhos in 1953 with a blueprint of a time machine. He has Noah's / 2052 Jonas' journal of the Loop incident, a few pages of which he leaves with Tronte. In 2052, everyone's photographs were linked with red thread in Claudia's cabin. After all, Claudia was seen in 2052, radioactive waste in the air.
There are still many questions. E.g.
- Charlotte (Ulrich's colleague) has solved all the mysteries, but what can be done about breaking the timeloop? How does Noah know him?
- Why did Michael commit suicide? Where was Noah or Hegel when Mikel went through the wormhole? Mikel went through the wormhole or how?
- Why did you give the book Helge to Claudia? Is it noir rice? Apart from Claudia and 2052-Jonas, who are the other members of "Shadow"?
- Does Alexander know anything about the loop? The 1986 incident was not disclosed.
- Why have boys been kidnapped instead of Francesca or other girls?
. Is the newcomer really Jonas-2052?
. Why is everyone walking in the rain without an umbrella?