1899 (2022-)

A young woman doctor approaches various key characters on the ship she is traveling on to help explain the mysterious events taking place.

'1899' is a mystery/suspense series with dramatic and sci-fi accents created by the team that brought us Dark. Complex, but easier to follow, dramatic but distracting, the series offers an interesting mix of cultures and languages ​​that try to deepen the impression of authenticity. The viewer's brain will not stop coming up with new theories, reaching familiar ideas from other sources (and without that necessarily being wrong), but the ending can be perceived as disappointing, however the high hopes for a second season stay strong.

Director:  Baran bo Odar   

Production:  Netflix   

Creator:  Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese   

Duration:  1 season of 8 episodes (1 hour each)   

With: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Rating: 8/10

Dark (2017–2020)

The disappearance of a couple of children triggers a series of connected events in unexpected ways once the time factor is manipulated.

A surprising series that's based on ideas that are often reused like temporal paradoxes, but taken to an extreme so efficiently and artistically, contributing to a network of connections so complex that some fans decide to watch Dark with a pencil in their hand. The scientific explanation becomes somewhat of a secondary focus while the cause&effect network becomes the main attention and the generator of much fascination and curiosity. Nothing is accidental in Dark, and the few poetic licenses it adopted increase the initial fascination which remains constant right up to the freeing finale at the end of season 3.

The attention to detail is admirable and many may notice that the actors are not chosen at random, because all those who play the same character at different ages look alike just enough so you actually know which character they are without them being introduced.

Production:  Netflix  

Creator:  Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese   

Duration:  the first season has 10 episodes, followed by 2 seasons of 8 (1 hour each)   

With: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari, Maja Schöne, Andreas Pietschmann

Rating: 9/10