fans of the series Stranger Things They are looking forward to season 5 and the series finale, which apparently won’t arrive until 2025. That’s why they have no choice but to look for other thriller and science series or films -fiction. One of the most acclaimed by the public and critics is the series darkof which three seasons of 26 episodes are visible on the Netflix streaming platform. dark It was created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese in 2017 and was the first German-language Netflix series. A series set in the German town of Winden where a child goes missing and the investigation uncovers the secrets of four families and a complex mystery that spans three decades. The thriller series dark It is one of the most watched and rated movies on Netflix.
For many, the best of dark are his time skips since its plot covers several different periods. If the present of the action takes place in 2019 and 2020, the past and the future move in timelines that the viewer must discover for themselves because everything that happens is linked. A complex series which takes the intrigue to the highest level and which has been able to highlight the good interpretation of some of its characters in each period of their life as a child, young person, adult or old man.
What is the series about? dark?
The center of the plot of this complex series is the mysterious disappearance of a child in a quiet town. No one knows where it is or when it happened. The four families involved (Kahnwald, Nielsen, Tiedemann and Doppler) are desperate to understand what happened as a twisted mystery spanning three decades unravels.
The first season begins in 2019, but the action goes back at times to 1986 and 1953. Some characters from the four families involved begin to realize the existence of a wormhole in the caves beneath the local nuclear power plant, run by the influential Tiedemann family. What’s curious is that in the final scene of this season we jump to 2052 and several characters appear at different ages and times and played by different actors.
The cast of this mysterious series
Some characters move in three different vital moments. For example, Jonas Kahnwald in 2019 is a high school student very affected by the suicide of his father and the role is played by Louis Hofmann, in 2021 he has become the leader of Sic Mundus and is played by the actor Andreas Pietschmann and In 2052, he is a time traveler, also known as “The Stranger”, a role played by Dietrich Hollinderbäumer.
This is why The number of actors participating in this series is enormous and we will only mention the most important: Sebastian Rudolph, Maja Schöne, Angela Winkler, Lisa Vicari, Moritz Jahn, Oliver Masucci, Winfried Glatzeder and Jördis Triebel, among others. The best known is the German actor Andreas, known for having played Matreus in 4th generation Zto Konstantin von Brendorp in the series GSG 9 – The Elite Einheit.
When the first season of the series premiered, many found similarities with the well-known series from the 90s Twin Peaks and of course with Stranger Things which was created in 2016. The series dark It won the Adolf Grimme Prize for best fiction television series and obtained an average rating of 7.1 out of 10 according to 89% of critics and 90% of the audience on the specialist site Rotten Tomatoes.
In addition to this series you can find streaming platforms other time travel series as Source Code, About Time, Tenet, The Time Machine, The Butterfly Effect, Predestination, Looper either Chronologyamong many others. But dark There is this dark and mysterious atmosphere that captivates from the first moment and, although the plot is a bit complex due to the time jumps, it is also a challenge for viewers.
In short dark East a brilliant series of mystery and suspense set in three different eras that no one can miss and is one of the best options for those who enjoyed the Stranger Things series.
