# Dark (2017)

> A missing child in a German nuclear-era town pulls four families into a time-bending mystery that stretches across three generations.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/61666

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 26
- Episode runtime: 51 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: science fiction, mystery, drama
- Created by: Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Louis Hofmann, Lisa Vicari, Andreas Pietschmann, Daan Lennard Liebrenz, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, Maja Schöne, Stephan Kampwirth, Mark Waschke
- TMDB rating: 8.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: labyrinthine
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: brooding, claustrophobic, melancholic, eerie, tense

## What critics say

Audiences broadly acclaim Dark as a dense, intricately plotted time-travel mystery with strong performances, though some find its pacing slow and its web of timelines confusing.

## Synopsis

Dark (2017-2020) is a German science fiction mystery series created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese for Netflix. When a young boy disappears in the fictional town of Winden, the search quickly pulls in four interconnected families, including teenager Jonas Kahnwald (Louis Hofmann), his mother Hannah Kahnwald (Maja Schöne), and the Nielsen siblings Martha (Lisa Vicari) and Mikkel (Daan Lennard Liebrenz). Their frantic hunt for answers keeps running into a mysterious figure known only as The Stranger (Andreas Pietschmann) and into a cave that seems to open onto other eras. The engine of the show is a web of clues that must be pieced together across decades, with each episode adding a new strand of secrets to a town where everyone is hiding something. The story unfolds as a three-season serialized saga of 26 episodes, rewarding close attention and rewatching. Its tone is brooding, claustrophobic and melancholic, with a bleak atmosphere of dread and an unsettling, rain-soaked small town look. Its themes of inherited guilt, fate and the weight of the past give it a philosophical depth. Fans of Stranger Things, Lost and Outlander will find resonance in its time travel mysteries and generational secrets, and the German production gives it a distinctive European sensibility throughout.

## Shows like Dark

- [Oderbruch (2024)](https://ember.film/tv/146988)
- [The Island (2020)](https://ember.film/tv/79424)
- [The Signal (2024)](https://ember.film/tv/157801)
- [Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy (2023)](https://ember.film/tv/129888)
- [Equinox (2020)](https://ember.film/tv/94666)
- [Dark Woods (2020)](https://ember.film/tv/94812)
- [Line of Separation (2015)](https://ember.film/tv/63444)
- [Erased (2017)](https://ember.film/tv/65096)
- [Parallels (2022)](https://ember.film/tv/98858)
- [Jordskott (2015)](https://ember.film/tv/55280)

---

Site overview: https://ember.film/llms.txt