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Welcome back to my blog Movies Web today we are talking dark season 2 I have
had so many requests and I just want to thank everybody before we get started
for recommending dark season1 to me because it's something that I just I missed
when it first came out quite a while ago and I went back over the last few
weeks and re-watch well watched it for the first time and my goodness guys
thank you I was completely blown away I never would have
watched and reviewed season 2 without you guys wanted me to watch season 1 so
seriously I appreciate it today we're talking season 2 not gonna dive too deep
in to spoilers because it's very early it just dropped this morning and let's
talk about dark season 2 and yeah dark season 1 is one of the more interesting
things I've ever seen on Netflix I heard stranger things comparisons multiple
times over the last few years but going and watching season1 finally I did not
see too much of stranger things it's a very different show and I understand the
comparisons because they are there and they could be made if they had to be but
this is its own standalone time-travel II multiple storylines balancing show
with deep characters and it's a very ambitious show it's a show that you have
to be paying attention to all along the way because it's going to leave you
having to think about certain things that happen to have to think about okay
what time period are we in now which storyline are we following is this the character
that is older than this character which is the same version of that there's a lot to think about with this show and it's a lot you have to sit back try your
best to dissect and understand that this show is feeding us all of these
different things and
I love that because the balance is there and the execution
is not sloppy it poses complex questions about free will the religious
undertones in this show which I noticed even more in season two are there and
if you're thinking about everything happening on-screen and you try to draw comparisons
to outside forces, you will absolutely find those and as it digs deep into the
layers of the story and it continues and it steams along you start to realize
that it's brilliantly executed because this could easily get over convoluted
this show could be way too much and I've seen multiple Netflix shows this year
that try to give us all of these plot lines and all these story elements but
they fall flat because of how it's just not as well-executed as it could have
been right but dark never suffers from that as confused as I was at times and me
will not lie the reason why I didn't get this review out even earlier is
because I had to pause it and think about some things and realize it and stop
like making toast in the corner and come back and start paying attention and
realize that this show does everything for a reason it's grounded in the emotion of the characters it never feels overly convoluted because of the balance
and dark is one of the best balances I have ever seen of all of these different
genres and all of these different plot lines right it's a story that takes
place in multiple time periods that's the case in season one they're not gonna
get more complicated are they oh yes season 2 adds even more time period so we
start out in season 2and this entire town of Wenden is incomplete despair
because of the disappearances of everyone from the end of season 1 and some
disappearances that you did not get to see right there are six people missing
including Jonas who we know is now in 2050 3 you have a character stuck in The 1950s but here's the thing season 2 actually picks up in the summer of 2020 so
time is passing there are no answers and people in the town there's looking
further into a state of helplessness, you have characters in the caves trying to
find answers you have the character of Hannah who is completely desperate
because of the loss of her son and you get that emotional impact in the first
episode and you a san audience member you're trying to figure out as our
characters are what does it all mean who is behind this
who started this series
of events now we have some answers from season 1 but we're trying to figure out
all of these complicated story points and as things start to come together and
they do as we progress through season 2 one thing I did like about season 2
that I did not think I was going to is the fact that we only have 8 episodes
right I want more of this show absolutely I love that we got 10 episodes in
season 1 but I feel like they told the story that they needed to tell in season
2 and they didn't push it all we have to do two more episodes to fill our
obligation they're like no we only need eight episodes of this season that's
what's going to tell this particular story and they did start to answer
questions now I would say our main character in this season there are multiple
of course but Jonas gets a lot of screen time and he is one of the more
interesting stories especially where he left off and season1 and then picks
back up in season 2 and without going into full spoilers The be versions of his the character I'll say that much is so interesting and dynamic and there are
moments in this series where they are showing all of the different versions of
certain characters at once and they're playing music in the background a lot of
the times series will fall flat when they do this because it comes off as a bit
cheesy and other playing the emotional music they're trying to get my heart
beating really fast and connecting to these characters and you just you find
yourself connecting because as they are wanting answers you are wanting answers
as they start to uncover things about this sequence of events in all of these different
time periods you start to uncover them as an audience and it is fascinating I
have honestly never seen a show balance the things that this show balances in a great way and I keep repeating myself and I know I do that very often in my
reviews but the writing of this show is just brilliant I don't know how they
have so many storylines happening and it's not convoluted it is blowing my mind
and the difference between season 2 and season 1
I think the narrative is still
there the interest in the characters is still there the stakes through the
stakes are higher because you have the looming threat of the apocalypse
underscoring this entire narrative and we are literally counting down the days
until a certain event is supposed to happen and it up to the characters to
solve this it's up to them to try to figure out why did this happen in the
first place what happened to cause this event how are all of these different
things happening at once and it is fascinating it's something I have to sit back
and think about a bit more because I'm still slightly confused on certain turns
and moments with the characters I'm like what did that mean to the larger story
because there are a few moments here where we spend a bit too much time with
characters and maybe some of the conversations could have been cut down a
little bit once again eight episodes it's an absolute breeze to get through it
you're locked into the story if you're not locked into the story and you don't
really care about what's happening first of all why are you watching season two
and it also adds to the urgency of the series because there's literally a
ticking clock and you're just counting down alright guys we have to hurry this
up because we don't have much time and every second Jonas is in the future he's
not in the past or in the present trying to prevent this from happening in the
first place why did this happen what caused it and we start to see that we
start to get answers this is not a series or a season of television that is going
to leave you hanging now at the end many story points are going to be left on
the edge and they leave it open absolutely for a season three but we start to
get answers in this season and I was so happy for that and I was just enthralled
along the way clearly, I love dark season 2 once again guys thank you so much
for your recommendations, I would have never watched the show without you and it
is one of the best seasons of television
I have watched all year on Netflix
guys, it was entertaining it was enthralling it's a bit convoluted and complicated
and it's going to take a certain mindset to sit back and soak everything in a lot of plot lines a lot of time periods but it is compelling because it just it
grounds all of these characters and it presents time-travel in such a way that
we've never really seen it before and it feels more possible in this show than
it does in other shows or movies it handles it so well yes the nonlinear nature
can get at ad bit confusing at times when you're trying to untangle this web of
events but it's compelling and it's also one giant mystery right you're trying
to uncover all of these events now Netflix, as far as I know, they have planned
for a season 3 but I have also that's the final season three cycles three
seasons now that's kind of sad because I want to see way more of this show than
just one more season but I like the fact that it feels like the filmmakers know
what the ending is they're not going to prolong this they're not gonna drag it
out like certain other shows do right they have an ending in mind and we get
that set up in season two and guys I had such a great time with this German
Netflix series as always you guys can do subbing or dubbing I did the subbing
just because I feel like the performances area bit authentic in that way but
whatever makes you happy whatever gets you through the entire series I'm giving
season two of dark and 88% just as good as the first season the consistency of this the show is incredible and it is absolutely enthralling guys if you have not
watched dark season one get on that watch dark season to come back and let me
know in the comments what did you think of this series have you watched it all
the way through so far and are you anticipating a season three thank you guys
so much for reading this
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