I’m assuming it was discussed previously, but I just finished watching the German Netflix show “Dark”, and although I really liked the show overall, I can’t help but feel disappointed in the end.
I try not to look at ratings and take too much from them to avoid disappointment when something gets overhyped, but when this many people rated it sooooo highly, I couldn’t help but expect it to be so great in the end.
Season 1 was absolutely great. It had many mind blows and multiple moments that gave me chills. The plot, characters, cinematography, and music, all worked in such a way that I actually would rate many of the episodes higher than I saw them rated on IMDB. It was beating my already high expectations.
Season 2 hit and this is where the disappointment crept in. It also had many mind blow moments, but maybe only 1 moment of chills that I could remember (I did binge the show in just about two weeks and I don’t doubt that if it watched it while it came out and had more time to digest everything from Season 1 I would have felt a little differently). Season 2 had all of the same components of Season 1 that made me fall in love with it, but without spoiling to someone who hasn’t watched it, I just started to care less and less about what is happening and will happen to the characters. The emotional investment that was built started to fade slightly. Again, I still think it was great overall, but the path it was taking started to worry me a little bit, especially knowing how much was built by Season 1-2, the thought popped in my head “how can possibly wrap this up well in only 1 final season”.
Then Season 3 happened, and I hate to say it, but the way the show was designed, and the way it plays out, it just started to bore me…and it sucks because I reaaaally wanted to be as hyped as I was while watching all of Season 1 and almost all of Season 2. As mentioned above, still some great moments and mind blows like the other seasons, but without spoiling again, when things happened to characters, especially more side characters, I just really didn’t care that much. In the end, it felt like it was building and building and building, but it wasn’t able to finish “well” for me. As it ended, I was ok with what happened (although I started to imagine a different ending mid way through the last episode that would have worked better for me in the end), but I still felt the show was good and complete from start to finish. My disappointment isn’t in typical “plot holes” that most will mention, I could very easily accept the events of the show as presented, I just didn’t care as much as I once did, which is really sad.
TLDR; I know I just wrote a lot, kind of blabbing/venting here, but to sum it up, I still really liked the show, and I will need a second watch to help connect some dots that I surely missed, but in the end I was a little disappointed. I’d say almost all of what makes film good was there, but by the end the emotional weight of everything slipped away from me and I just didn’t feel that satisfied.
