Once you start watching, you cannot stop. I watched season 1 and waited for seasons 2 and 3, and unlike some bad, decent or even good TV series, even after some time between seasons, it's like I watched the previous season the day before...
I'm not going to offend anyone here when I say that keeping up with it requires certain intellectual capacity - clearly, people who watched it all and gave it 10 stars do possess such qualities - and in the era of thrift and hastily put together visual arts this is a high rarity.
It's mesmerizing, no two things about it. It may sound strange, but I was constantly thinking of 2 of my favourite authors who do the same thing so magnificently, but in a different media and genre. First John LeCare: JLC knits this spider web of events and characters, which and who seemingly have nothing in common, are scattered through time and places, yet somehow you know they're all driving to the same destination, albeit in different directions, and in the end it all becomes perfectly clear, and you've connected the dots, and you feel contempt and fulfilled, almost as if you yourself arrived there. Second, Itallo Calvino and his masterpiece "If on a winter's night a traveler", a composition of short stories that have nothing to do with one another, arevinterrupted half way through, a cacophony of thoughts and situations that only in the end, put all together, make sense to an open minded, intelligent reader.
Dark is difficult to follow, it's at times confusing, unclear, the parallelism of it makes you wanting to stop, turn to syndicated shows that are so straightforward, clear, easy to follow, sooo one way - but you don't, you want to see more, you want to be confused, you need unclarity and you oh so desperately want to know how it's all going to end! You're thrown into this whirlwind and just like Dorothy, you're million miles away from Kansas - and you don't want to go back before you unravel the mystery of Oz... I'm blabbering here, I know, but I just finished seeing it for the 2nd time, and (as I expected) I'm not a tiny wee bit less impressed, satisfied and overwhelmed by how smart and perfect this show is.
I'm also a stickler for acting and technical execution, and all I can say about that aspect of the show is... Well, perfection.
Ausegezeihnet, absolut perfekt, meine deutschen Freunde! Sie haben einen sehr hohen Standard gesetzt, der es schwer zu befolgen gilt!
It's mesmerizing, no two things about it. It may sound strange, but I was constantly thinking of 2 of my favourite authors who do the same thing so magnificently, but in a different media and genre. First John LeCare: JLC knits this spider web of events and characters, which and who seemingly have nothing in common, are scattered through time and places, yet somehow you know they're all driving to the same destination, albeit in different directions, and in the end it all becomes perfectly clear, and you've connected the dots, and you feel contempt and fulfilled, almost as if you yourself arrived there. Second, Itallo Calvino and his masterpiece "If on a winter's night a traveler", a composition of short stories that have nothing to do with one another, arevinterrupted half way through, a cacophony of thoughts and situations that only in the end, put all together, make sense to an open minded, intelligent reader.
Dark is difficult to follow, it's at times confusing, unclear, the parallelism of it makes you wanting to stop, turn to syndicated shows that are so straightforward, clear, easy to follow, sooo one way - but you don't, you want to see more, you want to be confused, you need unclarity and you oh so desperately want to know how it's all going to end! You're thrown into this whirlwind and just like Dorothy, you're million miles away from Kansas - and you don't want to go back before you unravel the mystery of Oz... I'm blabbering here, I know, but I just finished seeing it for the 2nd time, and (as I expected) I'm not a tiny wee bit less impressed, satisfied and overwhelmed by how smart and perfect this show is.
I'm also a stickler for acting and technical execution, and all I can say about that aspect of the show is... Well, perfection.
Ausegezeihnet, absolut perfekt, meine deutschen Freunde! Sie haben einen sehr hohen Standard gesetzt, der es schwer zu befolgen gilt!
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