Not only do people mysteriously disappear and die. “The question is when.”Īnd that, it seems, is the concept at the heart of Dark: When. “The question isn’t how,” a smiling Mikkel says. There it is! It’s a pretty nifty trick, and Ulrich is impressed. In the opening moments of the first episode, a still very-much-present Mikkel performs a magic trick for his dad: Sitting at the kitchen table, he puts what looks like a little game piece under one of two shells. And when Ulrich’s own son, Mikkel, soon goes missing, too, he’s forced to reckon not only with the present, but with the town’s mysterious past as well. You see, it all happened before, 33 years ago, when Ulrich was a kid himself. He knows it does happen, and knows it as well as anyone. Ulrich says he’s never seen anything like Erik’s disappearance in Winden-but he’s lying. And his on-the-job duties are getting ever more difficult.Įrik, one of Jonas’ high school chums, disappeared just two weeks before, seemingly without a trace. Now he has an ex-wife (and the kids they had together), a pregnant second wife (that’d be Jonas’s mother) and yet another girlfriend–a fellow officer and colleague. Jonas’ mother copes with her husband’s death in an entirely different way-first by having an affair with, and then marrying, Ulrich, the town’s police chief.īut Ulrich has trouble settling down with just one woman, it seems. But nothing answers the question he asks every day and night: Why did his father do it? He pops pills and smokes marijuana to cope, and he speaks to a therapist now and then. Two months later, that deceased man’s teenage son, Jonas, is haunted by dreams and visions of his dead father. This series begins with a suicide, bleak and brutal, and goes on from there. But in the town of Winden, Germany, it’s already here-ready to renew its acquaintance. Something wicked this way comes, Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth.
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