And the end came: the best and worst of the 3rd season of Dark

Dark It arrived a few days ago with its third season on Netflix, thus putting the finishing touch on one of the best proposals in the platform's catalog. He has been a intense trip, very intense, and tremendously chaotic, but everything makes sense now, after 26 episodes of broadcast. it's time that let's review what this latest installment has left us and let's look with perspective if the series has met expectations or not.

spoiler alert: although it is quite evident, keep in mind that this article talks freely about the third season of Dark. Read it at your own risk.

The German phenomenon is called Dark

A German series about time travel? At first it sounds did not sound too attractive to the general public. Dark arrived like own production from Netflix in 2017 without making too much noise and went rather unnoticed during the first weeks of broadcast.

However, suddenly users realized the jewel that this title of only 4 letters hid: a tremendously complex and entertaining story where the prevailing feeling is that everything was perfectly and ingeniously well planned from the beginning.

And it is that only in this way is it possible to develop a project like this. Their creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese They have managed to create a fantastic plot where there was not much room for improvisation given the comings and goings of the characters in their different eras and the relationships established between them.

Now it's time to review what I liked the most about this last season (taking the series into perspective Dark completely) and what has least convinced me of the outcome. Let's go with it.

The best and the worst of the end of Dark

The best of the third season

• He has managed to keep the interest. It was complicated but Odar and Friese have managed to maintain interest in all the chapters, always wanting to see the next one and continue discovering what is happening.
• the good casting. And we are not saying this because of the interpretation but because of the great physical resemblance between the actors who play the same character. Those responsible for the project have always known how to look for common details in everyone's physiognomy so that it would be much more credible that it was the same character at different ages. Although it was also played on occasions with an advantage, of course. This is the case of the son of Martha and Jonas, who in his elderly and adult version are indeed family: father and son to be more exact.

• The soundtrack. Little is said about the music that accompanies Dark. The choice of songs for each chapter has been very good, especially when it comes to showing us the characteristic slow-motion transitions, in the second part of each chapter.
• It is not a "happy" ending for the protagonists. Living up to its name, the series ends in a somewhat melancholic way since the main characters, Jonas and Martha, finally disappear and sacrifice themselves so that the origin world never unfolds and a new story is written.
• All well tied to the end. After two seasons full of dates, characters and time travel capable of influencing the "future", it became more than clear that there was no room for improvisation here and that everything was very well tied up and planned from the beginning. The third season, even more complex if possible, shows this again, without leaving any loose ends. Bravo.

The worst of the third season

• Too much chaos? Just as I say that the third installment has been the most complex, it is also fair to recognize that perhaps they have gone too far with it. In case we didn't have enough with time travel to different years, now we are presented with a parallel world, Eva's, where there are also trips and consequences similar to Adam's, which can saturate the plot a bit, together to the many open fronts that it presents.
• many turns on the same. Derived from the above, in this season I came to have the feeling at times that some scenes "went together", going around the same idea too many times. The characters, especially Adam, Eva and Claudia Tiedeman repeat his mantra sometimes excessively.
• The moment Interstellar left over. if you have seen Interstellar You'll know what I'm talking about: in the last episode, when Jonas and Martha go through the tunnel of the cave at the moment it is opened for the first time, they end up in an indefinite space in which they are absolutely alone. Then they will see the other as a child through a closet, making it clear that when they were children they came to perceive that presence. This is reminiscent of when Matthew McConaughey arrives at the black hole, also without defined space or time, and manages to see his daughter through a piece of furniture, who ends up noticing his presence.

Has been the 3 season best of all? Of course not. I think that the first, due to its novelty, and the second, due to the way of recording and telling everything, were superior. Am I satisfied with the ending? Yes, because although it is not ideal, it has ended with dignity, without stretching the series in an absurd way and, above all, making it compensate for the fantastic journey started in 2017.