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Netflix’s Dark has enough twists and reveals to send you into a whirl
REMEMBER Back To The Future – when Doc Brown threw a fit about running into yourself in the past?
Because of the paradox it would cause in the time-space continuum, your arm would start disappearing on a photograph. Well, that’s old news.
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What about Lost, which I wrote about in these pages a couple of weeks ago?
A large portion of the storyline is dedicated to time travel, but, pah, that’s now positively prehistoric.
Dark, a German-language series about to embark on its third season, takes everything you think you know about the rules of the genre, tears them into shreds and shoves them right up your flux capacitor.
Without giving too much away, we are in the town of Winden in 2019, and children have begun disappearing.
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These mysterious happenings expose a multitude of secrets and take us across seven timelines and multiple versions of the same characters.
There’s Jonas, a young boy trying to understand why his father committed suicide, local power plant director Claudia and Mikkel, a young boy who has gone missing.
I’m not going to sugar-coat this, the list of characters to keep track of is daunting.
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But it is a riveting thriller which begins as something relatively linear (a missing child case) and expands into an examination of something incredibly profound.
Put the phone to one side and get ready to hit the rewind button a few times.
Yes, it’s tough to keep track of who, what and when but this is a seriously exciting series with twists and reveals to send you into a whirl.
- Season three starts on June 27, Netflix.
Dark (15) Netflix
★★★★★
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