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“DARKNESS”: the time Loop has become a noose (REVIEW)

The adult version of “It”? I think after the first episode, “Darkness,” this idea is inevitable. A small town, though not American, and German. Children are disappearing once in 33 years. Teenagers with flashlights on bicycles. Even yellow raincoat available. But there’s no Dancing clown, nor Demogorgon, if you ever thought about “Very strange case”. And what is there? There are bizarre twists of Time, it is unknown, there is darkness, hiding behind friendly smiles, friendly gestures, loving glances. And it oozes out — if you look really close!

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Yeah, you look really worth it. This is the first project created at the request of Netflix in Germany. And dudes spent not in vain. Invented and implemented everything in life is a German , Antje Frieze and Swiss Sheep Bo Audard. The last he directed all ten episodes of the first season. They already worked together on the hacker Thriller “Who am I”. As they say — successfully. With the “Darkness” they have definitely succeeded. Well, almost everything.

The second series of the Association with “It” not a trace remains. You are captivated by what is happening. You are surrounded by mystery, they are attacking from all sides. The hero is getting more, and the creators won’t wait for you to remember their names. Moreover, soon the viewer will have to meet younger versions of these characters as the story develops in several eras at once. And the only thing you can say about any of the inhabitants of the town of Winden everyone has something to hide.

And that’s cool. Happens a lot of the strange, pronounced a bunch of mysterious phrases, and no hurry with the explanations, forcing you to guess and to build a theory in my head. “Darkness” is not going to gradually escalate the atmosphere, Oh no, the voltage is pulled up to the stop almost immediately, and catharsis, equipped with the marvelous indie music await you throughout the narrative.

The grim beauty of the landscapes becomes a backdrop for beauty portraits: deep wrinkles in the faces of men, a striking gleam in the eyes of women, the pale tenderness of the young lovers. Oliver masucci from the Comedy “He’s back”, a serious man in the character of Mads Mikkelsen plays Ulrich Nielsen, police, come off the coils, when among the missing is one of his children. Carolina Eichhorn, known for the drama series “Night psychologist”, in the absence of Ulrich draws on himself the investigation of disappearances. Louis Hofmann of the war drama “My land”, the bearer of the yellow raincoat, painful plays a young man named Jonas Invalid, and he in turn tries to deal with the secrets left by his father, who had recently committed suicide. Hanged himself in a time loop, so to speak. View the show — you’ll understand the pun.

Characters actually considerably more, and their history, the history of their families, are woven very tight, up to incredible. To hell with you two guess who is the villain and who the good guys! Here you have in front of you Maya Shen, aka Hannah Invalid, the widow of a suicide, a woman who needs love, sacrifice… whatever! Or that Alexander Tiedemann performed by Peter Benedict, cold, haughty Director of a local nuclear power station, which is somehow involved in all events in Winden oddities. Well, apparently the same bad guy? Not everything is so simple! As I said, the darkness dwells in each, but the light sometimes breaks out. The battle between them is not over yet.

Crazy time paradoxes, powerful rhythm of the narrative, a dense mix of drama and Thriller, with colorful characters, great sound, an excellent soundtrack, surprisingly often overlapping with my own playlist… Hell, this episode pulled on the infamous “ten out of ten” for almost the entire season. Until the eighth episode, the creators managed to continuously surprise and escalate, but by the final, they still had to pick up all the main plot thread and each to combine. Not sure what you could do better, but the way they repeatedly confirmed ripened the viewer guessing as naturally postpone joint story seemed almost boring. And the tension and suspense of the previous series, I felt almost disappointed. And even cliffhanger in the epilogue was completely predictable. Obviously, Baran Bo Audard and Antje Frieze hope for a second season, but hardly know how to continue it. Will it have to withstand the same intensity, the same mystery that we were able to show the first eight episodes of “Darkness”? Frankly, I have no idea how this is possible, but of course, curiosity would see a sequel, if Netflix will approve it.

Anyway, I would strongly advise the first season to everyone you meet, because such things should not go unnoticed. Einstein, Chernobyl, Jesus, Destiny… All of that is discussed here, is interwoven with red threads and you should follow each, then to step back and see the full picture.

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