Dark (Season 1)

Okay. It's 4:17 AM. My eyes feel like they've been sandblasted and I'm pretty sure my heart is running on pure, uncut caffeine and existential dread. There are three empty cans of some horrible energy drink on my desk and I think I forgot to blink for about six hours straight. I just finished it. All of it. And I don't know who I am anymore.

It started so slow, you know? Like a really gloomy, beautifully shot German crime show. A kid goes missing. Sad parents. Creepy small town. I was like, "Yeah, okay, I can handle this. A nice little mystery." The mood in Winden is so thick you could spread it on toast. Everyone is miserable and hiding something. I was making tea, casually watching, feeling kind of bad for everyone.

Then came Episode 4. "Double Lives." That's the one. The one where the floor just dropped out from under me. When Jonas is in the cave and he finds that old, rotting door with the weird symbol on it, and then he goes through it and it's not just another part of the cave. The light is different. The air is different. And then he sees the boy. Erik. The one who went missing. But he's not a ghost. He's just... there. In 1986. I literally put my phone down. My weekend plans? Gone. My responsibilities? A distant memory. I was in. I was all the way in.

From that point on, it was a blur. A frantic, note-taking, family-tree-drawing, "who-is-related-to-whom" spiral of pure madness. I started a chart on my phone. It's a mess. Lines connecting everyone. The Nielsen family, the Kahnwald family, the Dopplers, the Tiedemanns... they're all the same four people having a miserable family reunion across 66 years. And don't even get me started on Helge. Poor, weird, time-looping Helge. The show just keeps throwing these breadcrumbs at you, and you're starving, so you keep eating them, but then you realize the breadcrumbs are actually pieces of your own brain.

And Jonas. Oh, Jonas. I felt for this kid. I really did. His dad just killed himself, his mom is having an affair with his best friend's dad, his life is a dumpster fire. So when he started digging, I was right there with him. "You go, sad emo Jonas! Find the truth!" But then... then he started listening to that future version of himself. The guy in the creepy leather mask. And I'm screaming at the screen, "NO, JONAS, DON'T LISTEN TO THE MYSTERIOUS TIME-TRAVELING STRANGER, HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A MOVIE?!" But he did. He always does. And that decision to go back, to try and fix things, even though every fiber of his being must be screaming that it's a trap? That's the moment he stopped being a victim and became... something else. A part of the knot. It's frustrating and heartbreaking and I love it.

And Hannah. Ugh. Hannah. I'm not even going to start on Hannah. Okay, maybe just one thing. The way she just stood there and watched Ulrich's life fall apart because she was jealous? I wanted to reach through the screen and shake her. So much of this pain is because people can't just... talk to each other. Or because they're terrible. It's probably the terrible thing.

But the finale. The last two episodes, "God's in his Heaven" and "Everything is Now." My brain is still trying to process what it saw. It's like the show just kept stacking revelations on top of revelations until the entire structure collapsed into a perfect, horrifying singularity. Mikkel is Michael. MICHAEL IS MIKKEL. Jonas's dad is the kid who went missing in 2019, who is actually Jonas's friend's little brother, who traveled back to 1986 and grew up to be Jonas's father. I had to pause and just stare at a wall for a solid five minutes. My family tree chart spontaneously combusted.

The final image that's burned into my retinas right now isn't even the big reveal. It's the very last shot. Old, scarred Jonas, sitting in his post-apocalyptic little room, looking at the triptych of his family. And he says, "The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning." And then it cuts to the title card, DARK. And I'm just sitting here in the dark, my own little apocalypse, feeling like my own timeline has been fractured. They didn't just leave a cliffhanger; they threw me off the cliff and told me I was the one who built it. I'm not satisfied. I'm not angry. I'm just... broken. In the best way.

I need to go back and watch the scene in the bunker where Jonas first realizes his dad is Michael. The way his face just... empties. It's perfect. I need to see it again. But I also need to sleep. I think. Maybe I'll just rewatch that scene.

10/10. I need to lie down.

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TRAILER English -   https://youtu.be/rrwycJ08PSA?si=mVNFjnzVeKuV_I-Y

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REVIEW English -   https://youtu.be/YQsbHuSsDSU?si=m_CstdRT3xm7smAf

REVIEW Hindi -   https://youtu.be/S1R9bCZH8jw?si=fQYkZ5q1-qG7U3J4

REVIEW Bengali - https://youtu.be/SVJv6SmA3Q4?si=D82nyGtZfxB0bqt4

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EXPLANATION Hindi -   https://youtu.be/YGc3onjnC6c?si=LGi1T-FegCkJ-Dkd

EXPLANATION English - https://youtu.be/YRcMJManfVU?si=6Jip2yxFX7Q0fdUt

EXPLANATION Bengali - https://youtu.be/f7NcVfJ5xlM?si=pH_EjCKU97MFgvJX

EXPLANATION Tamil -   https://youtu.be/MQMa2VHyGV4?si=Z9pBvTv5RgFUrUXj

EXPLANATION Telugu -https://youtu.be/kprRxaKVvL8?si=Roq9XoExMd_CmsRV