Two days ago, I started Netflix’s massively recommended show, Dark. I just started watching the third and the last season today. However, if there is anything that I have learnt from Game of Thrones, it is that some experiences do not live on forever, they can also be less remarkable after the last season; and honestly, I do not want that from this show at all. There are people in this world who have watched each and every episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S just to not watch the last episode because they know that the fun will not last for them, to wonder if anything else could happen. I am not one of those people, I went on to watch Joey which is a sequel to the American series and ruined it for myself, it was fun while it lasted. The reason I want to experience watching something like Dark again is because it taught me so much, I had these vague ideas of time, space, fate and travelling through them which I had picked up from everything I read and watched; but the show really conceptualized it into a very logical plot line- logical to me at least since I have not found any prominent loopholes.
Netflix portrays an ungodly amount of teenagers either going to Ivy Leagues after a summer of movie-like adventure or teenagers finding their great beyond after a summer of movie-like adventure. This show is the movie-like adventure we did not anticipate Netflix to ever make. When you watch a show, it is metaphorically a journey through time, however, Dark is literally a journey through time.
We have the idea of time being linear, for an average human, it only proceeds into either future or goes back in the past; but for a human being, who can only live in the present, time is a line segment one does not know the length of, it only proceeds into the future for us. It uniformly, eternally proceeds into infinity for the world. The first episode is a great kick-start into the theme of the show, about good and evil being only perspectives and Mikkel’s “the question isn’t how, the question is when.” Proceeding further into the show, piece by piece- it tells you how the great scheme of events are influenced by the universe, and how it is bigger than any one individual. It started off as Jonas’s journey to restore the balance and save his father Micheal Kahnwald at least while he also wishes to restore his relationship with Martha, his romantic interest. All humans may not be related by blood but they are all inter-connected in the grand scheme of events by an invisible bond.
As I was watching the fifth episode of the first season, I think there was a scene that hit the part of my brain that makes an activity an experience. It was 2:50 am and the moment I watched the scene where Jonas reads Micheal’s letter, I paused to absorb what I had really understood from it. I must have watched it twice or thrice just because I was so in awe of the scene and the information that came with it. I shed some happy tears, because it was not a happy ending or a climax, it was just a scene that made me pause so I could register it. It really made me think about so many things I would not have thought could be a part of the show, eventually they were.
I am totally in awe of this series and I am looking forward to complete the third season so I can post a review too. I have all nice things to say about it so far. I did not expect my brain to register stories through time and space but I am so happy it has exceeded my expectations.
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