Dark

Toni chose the next show for our dinner with Netflix theme and he chose Dark, which had a really cool trailer but was also talked about as "Stranger Things for intelligent people". It's a German show and neither of us speak German, but slap some subs on there and we're fine.

We both spent the first season in perpetual confusion, but at the same time it was so so good and exciting and interesting that we just kept watching. Every evening it was time for "Jonas and food". However, by the time we started the second season I had figured out how the characters connected and which story thread went where. Or so I thought. The third season turned everything I knew upside down, in a way that actually disappointed me. It seemed like such lazy writing to have the first two seasons be one way only to introduce things at the last minute to kind of tie the whole story together. As a result the third season seemed kind of haphazardly put together and pretty rushed out.

The story is about time-travelling and later on dimension-travelling. It revolves around a small German village called Winden. The kind of place where people all know each other and somehow nobody ever leaves even though they may dream of it as teenagers. 

The time-travelling is connected to the nuclear power station in the town, and the heroes of the story want to prevent the apocalypse that will happen due to the power station, and the bad guys want to make sure it happens. Their respective plots stretch through the times from 1888 to 2052.

The first two seasons were brilliantly done, which is probably why the third season fell so flat for me.

But up until the moment they decided to destroy everything they had established over two seasons this show was so so good. Give it a watch. Maybe you'll think differently from me.