Cau No
Lifetime Total
5+
Lifetime Trivia
1+
IMDb Member
22 years
Reviews
Dark (2017)
Germany's long time overdue step into genre shows
As a fan of genre shows (Mystery/SF) I was excited to finally see this coming from Germany.
This is not much like "Stranger Things", as often has been claimed, (which is based more in style on the works of Stephen King and John Carpenter, rooted firmly in the US). It is more like a mixture of Twin Peaks & Donnie Darko. It is almost 'experimental' to German TV standards, this would never have been made by the traditional networks. By now Netflix should have themselves established as a major player in international genre shows.
The way of successively adding layer after layer of information about the characters and their history also supersedes the traditional closed episode narrative. (We only learn about the past as soon as someone actually visits it.)
There also are a lot of eighties references only some Germans might recognize:
This is not much like "Stranger Things", as often has been claimed, (which is based more in style on the works of Stephen King and John Carpenter, rooted firmly in the US). It is more like a mixture of Twin Peaks & Donnie Darko. It is almost 'experimental' to German TV standards, this would never have been made by the traditional networks. By now Netflix should have themselves established as a major player in international genre shows.
The way of successively adding layer after layer of information about the characters and their history also supersedes the traditional closed episode narrative. (We only learn about the past as soon as someone actually visits it.)
There also are a lot of eighties references only some Germans might recognize:
- The mood after the Chernobyl disaster
- Raider bars, which have been re-branded to "Twix" in 1991
- Captain Future comic books published by Bastei
- Nena's "Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann" (Somehow, somewhere, sometime)