Here's the Dark Explainer You Need Ahead of Season 2 But the reason it all works and never feels too wild or like it's happening too fast is because the story is grounded in the emotions of the characters.
Through the four episodes screened for critics, Dark barrels through its ever-complicating story, picking up steam as more and more layers are uncovered, creating even more questions as others are finally being answered.
Posing complex questions about determinism and free will, coupled with its overt religious undertones, Dark has lofty narrative ambitions, and it continues to nail them at every twist and turn.
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In Season 2, which debuts Friday, the series more fully embraces its wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey nature - to borrow from another beloved time-travel series - as it continues to bounce between different timelines and generally make its viewers' brains feel like jelly. But while Stranger Things was an homage to the beloved Steven Spielberg films of the '80s, Dark's moody, mind-bending, and emotionally resonant narrative often feels like it's pulling inspiration from something closer to David Lynch's Twin Peaks. In its first season, Netflix's thrilling German sci-fi series Darkwas compared, rather unfairly, to Stranger Things, another highly bingeable, popular Netflix series about a young boy who goes missing under mysterious circumstances.