‘Dark’ is the best new Netflix crime show you’re not watching

If you like crime, time travel, and head burstingly-complex (but also incredibly well thought-out) plots, you’re probably going to like Dark.

Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s rainy, 10-part mystery thriller is Netflix’s first foray into German-language originals. It’s moody, it’s ambitious, and even though I was constantly struggling to remember who people were or understand what the sweet hell I was watching, it immediately had me hooked.

So what’s it all about?

Dark is the sort of show that will have you spending hours trying to figure out what exactly you’ve just watched, then even more hours theorising about why it happened, what it meant, and what’s going to happen next. It’s the type of TV that lengthy, Reddit-based dissection was made for, in other words — and the sort of show that’s very hard to summarise in just a few sentences. Read more…

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