Antagonists with Biblical names like Adam (Dietrich Hollinderbäumer) and Noah (Mark Waschke) seemingly pull all the strings across the ages. Quite the heavy bombshell, which even most daytime soaps would not be able to pull off.įive different periods feature characters at different ages, but some figures freely move between the fixed points separated by 33 years. Ulrich's partner Charlotte Doppler (Karoline Eichhorn) has only just found out her father is one of the people traveling through time, she doesn't yet know that her youngest daughter Elisabeth (Carlotta von Falkenhayn) is also her mother. The roots of these family trees intersect in ways that will make you furrow your brow in confusion however, the second season takes this first mind-bending reveal and laughs in its face. Talk about long-distance love that defies time and space. Relationship entanglements and romances date back to 1921 and leap forward to 2052, which includes those frequently traveling through the caves to these dates. Secrets poison the generations that stayed to work in a town bolstered by nuclear power, which in and of itself has been detrimental to the environment. An emotionally charged assessment of this supposed tight-knit community carefully nails the deception that seeps into every home. And we're all part of it," Ulrich's wife Katharina (Jördis Triebel), announces on a local radio call-in about the recent events. Instead, Ulrich's violent attack on young Helge Doppler (Tom Philipp) facilitates the tragic chain reaction that results in the death and disappearance of the children - including his brother and son, 33 years apart. Essentially, he is pulling a micro version of the "killing baby Hitler" ethical debate. This includes Ulrich beating a child's head in with a rock in 1953 because he thinks this will stop the events in 19. There aren't any dragons, but the apocalypse is nigh, and so far every attempt to stop an event has only caused it. Oh, and Martha? She is Mikkel's sister, so Jonas is in love with his aunt. Other mind-frazzling relationship twists include Jonas' mother being in love with Ulrich from when she was 14 years old and having an affair with him in the present, unaware that her husband is her lover's son. Considering the lengths older Ulrich will go to while searching for his son, finding out he was there all along is quite the cosmic gut-punch. His father still lives in the same house - a lot of the Winden residents live where they grew up - but he is a teenager who has no time for this kid he doesn't recognize. When Mikkel disappeared on that fated November 2019 night, he ended up in the same cave but in 1986. The day after Jonas' encounter with Martha Nielsen (Lisa Vicari), his father Michael (who is Mikkel) died by suicide, and the frayed edges of this community began to unravel. A girl he hooked up with during the summer, just before events took a turn for the tragic. Yellow raincoat-wearing Jonas Kahnwald (Louis Hofmann) has regular teen issues to deal with, including a precarious romance with the girl who is now dating his best friend. In this family saga, creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar carefully balance jaw-dropping twists without dumbing down the scientific or philosophical propositions. Greek mythology, teen angst, and time travel intersect via the tale of Ariadne's red thread while references to The Matrix, thrash metal band Kreator, and Harry Houdini are all relevant to the narrative. One of the most ambitious TV shows dealing with the concept of time travel, Dark manages to serve up quantum mechanics and existentialist dilemmas while dishing out soap opera-level twists and relationship melodrama. The German science-fiction series is about to air its third and final season on Netflix (landing June 27), which will hopefully answer some existence-defining questions for the residents of Winden. Tannhaus (Christian Steyer) asks this in the opening monologue of Dark's fourth episode. "What if everything that came from the past was influenced by the future?"Ĭlockmaker and author of the fictitious A Journey Through Time, H.
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