[Note: The following review contains mild spoilers for Season 3 of “Dark.”]The greatest trick nested within “Dark” is what it manages to make inevitable.
Even before the third and final season of the German-language Netflix sci-fi time travel epic, each new wrinkle has arrived with a shock, but also with the storytelling confidence that this is always how it would unfold.
Juggling a dizzying amount of causal loops and concurrent timelines and logical paradoxes, “Dark” has always operated with a combination of precision and patience required to make each new successive detail feel earned.
In telling the story of the unassuming town of Winden, the construction of that story has felt, fittingly, like that of a ticking clock.The giant gambit at the end of last season was that not only were Jonas (Louis Hofmann) and Martha (Lisa Vicari) destined to experience their tragic love story across increasingly stratified generations, they would have an entire new reality to contend with.
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