In 2052 in Eva's world, Eva explains to her scarred teenage self that Martha's death in Adam's world is the point at which two parallel realities overlap: in one scenario, Jonas is saved from the apocalypse by the alternate Martha and brought to Eva's world, where he is eventually killed; a second scenario exists where Jonas is not met by the alternate Martha and instead lives on in his own world, eventually becoming Adam. He gives Tronte a bracelet shaped like an ouroboros.

The second season continues the intertwining families' attempts to reunite with their missing loved ones, several months after the first-season finale, in 2020, 1987 and 1954, respectively. In September 2020, three months after the apocalypse, adult Claudia is nursing an ailing Regina while working to find a way to save those that perished in the apocalypse. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. After reading his suicide note, Michael suggests that perhaps the real reason Jonas is there is to inform Michael of what he must do and what he must write. Dark debuted on 1 December 2017 on Netflix; it is the service's first German-language original series. They have an insider that intimately understands the disturbed mind of a murderer – a convicted killer currently serving multiple life sentences in a maximum-security prison. In the aftermath of a child's disappearance, Dark follows characters from the fictional German town of Winden as they pursue the truth. Agnes meets with Noah, her brother, and tells him the location of the missing pages in hopes of rejoining Sic Mundus. As Katharina enters the cave and opens the, "Die Hölle ist leer, alle Teufel sind hier", Vico Mücke as Yasin Friese, Elisabeth Doppler's friend in 2019 (season 1), Paul Radom as Erik Obendorf, a teenage drug dealer gone missing in 2019 (season 1), Anna Schönberg as Donata Kraus, a nurse and Ines Kahnwald's co-worker in 1986 (season 1), Lea Willkowsky as Jasmin Trewen, Claudia Tiedemann's secretary in 1986–1987 (season 1–3), This page was last edited on 30 September 2020, at 05:51. He bludgeons Helge, and leaves him for dead in the bunker. Charlotte discovers that the cave system goes beneath an old cabin owned by Helge, and later she receives a voice message from Ulrich, stating that Helge is the kidnapper, but that the question is not how he is doing it, but when. Martha breaks up with Bartosz, who is now working with Noah.

© 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. In 1888, the Unknown murders Gustav Tannhaus. Ulrich rebuffs Egon for his naivety. An injured Jonas finds himself in Winden at the year 1921, where he is nursed by the inhabitants. Bartosz tells Martha how they arrived in 1888. Agnes and Adam watch the God Particle in safety, and Agnes says she knows the true origin of the cycle. Netflix approved the series in February 2016 for a first season consisting of ten one-hour episodes. The bridge and the train tracks were filmed the middle of the Düppeler forest near Lake Wannsee.[18]. The dark matter in 2020 is then activated and begins to take on shape. #MysteryandSuspense.

With the origin prevented, Jonas, Martha and most of the other characters are erased from existence along with both worlds. Martha, Magnus, Franziska, and Elisabeth visit the cave, where they find Bartosz carrying the time machine. In June 2019, 43-year-old Michael Kahnwald commits suicide, but his mother Ines hides his suicide letter before anyone else notices it. 2019 Jonas and Hannah arrive at the Nielsen family home on Ulrich and Katharina's anniversary, where Jonas has sex with Martha and Ulrich starts his affair with Hannah. Meanwhile, Ulrich finds Egon's 1986 notes, making Helge a suspect, and visits him at the nursing home. Brother of the real Aleksander Köhler, whose identity was assumed by Boris Niewald, now Aleksander Tiedemann. The adult Elisabeth and Charlotte from 2053 travel to 2041 to kidnap baby Charlotte (who they eventually deliver to Tannhaus). At the nuclear plant, newly elected director Claudia Tiedemann, Egon's daughter and Regina's mother, clashes with her predecessor Bernd Doppler, who informs her of secret barrels hidden in the nearby caves. 2020 Jonas reconciles with his father as he tries to convince him to not kill himself, except Michael claims he is not considering suicide and reveals that Jonas was the one who led young Mikkel into the portal in the first place.

The site's critical consensus states, "Dark's sumptuous second season descends deeper into the show's meticulously-crafted mythos and cements the series as one of streaming's strongest and strangest science fiction stories. TV Guide, UK's No 1 TV guide showing your TV listings in an easy to read grid format, Visit us to check TV News, Freeview TV listings, Sky TV, Virgin TV, History, Discovery, TLC, BBC, and more. The younger Noah takes Jonas to the church, where he meets the older Noah, who escorts him to meet Adam, who reveals himself to be an elderly Jonas. Peter returns and tries to save her but is murdered by the burglar. In 2019, Mikkel's family struggles not to turn against each other, Regina discovers that she has breast cancer, and Ulrich learns that his father was having an affair with Claudia at the time of Mads' disappearance. During the first season, secrets are revealed concerning the Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler, and Tiedemann families, and their lives begin crumbling as their ties are exposed. In 1954, a young and disfigured Helge returns after being missing for seven months but refuses to talk to anyone but Noah, with whom he spent the last seven months in 1987 building a new time machine.
The newfound evidence makes Charlotte, who was raised by Tannhaus, question her origins.

Now demand for the second season is high as people are still trying to unravel the mysteries unleashed in Season 1. Who killed Jane Goodwin in 1982? Tannhaus' explanation of the Schrodinger's cat paradox, which serves as a metaphor for the two branching sequences of events during the 2020 apocalypse – in one, Martha from Eva's world saves Jonas from the apocalypse, and in the other, she is stopped by Bartosz, who was sent by his adult self on Eva's orders. In 1911, Hannah arrives with a young Silja to stay with Jonas, who has begun to transform into Adam. She follows Helene through the woods, but a confrontation ensues, which ends with Helene bludgeoning Katharina to death with a rock and drowning her body in the lake. [30] Many claimed that it was darker and more in-depth than Stranger Things. Young Jonas and Martha reunite but are interrupted by Adam who shoots Martha. The third season introduces a storyline based in 1888 and a parallel reality featuring alternate versions of many main characters. The series was awarded the 2018 Grimme-Preis award in the category "fiction", which singled out the following cast and crew for awards: The actors named are awarded as "representatives for the full cast". Watch Murderous Affairs: Dark Minds from Season 1 at TVGuide.com. She tells Egon the man is not her husband. The second season introduces Sic Mundus Creatus Est, a major faction in the ongoing battle for the ultimate fate of the people of Winden and the world. Later, as lights start flickering and birds fall dead from the sky, Charlotte grows even more concerned. They believe that perhaps she could have been the one who held Helge captive, but Helge says "he" told her about Claudia, the White Devil. Jonas and Martha travel to the origin world through the passage in the cave and successfully prevent the deaths of Tannhaus' son Marek, his wife Sonja, and their infant daughter Charlotte, thus eliminating the pain that caused Tannhaus to create the time machine in the first place.

[27], The first season of Dark received mostly positive reviews from critics, with many noting its similarities to the TV series Twin Peaks and the Netflix series Stranger Things. Between 1978-1988, 7 women are brutally stabbed & dumped in the woods of the Connecticut River Valley. Jonas attempts to activate the particle, but the power fails. In 1987, Katharina tries to free Ulrich and makes a plan to steal a keycard from her mother Helene, who works at the psychiatric facility. He has a brief encounter with the younger Noah and his sister Agnes. Between 2003 and 2007, five down and out women go missing, their remains found in wooded areas outside the city. Tannhaus' grandfather—promises Jonas he can create a paradise. Tannhaus, Peter's wife; Franziska and Elisabeth's mother; Winden chief of police, Greta's husband; Helge's father, founder of the power plant, Helge's father, former director of the power plant, Charlotte's guardian, a clockmaker, lecturer in theoretical physics, and the author of, Regina and Aleksander's son, Jonas' best friend and Martha's boyfriend, Aleksander's wife, Bartosz's mother, a hotel manager, Regina's husband, Bartosz's father, and director of the power plant, Regina's mother, director of the power plant, Jonas and Noah's mentor; a time traveller, Doris' husband; Claudia's father, a police officer, Claudia's father, a police chief inspector approaching retirement, Bartosz's son.
In 2020, Claudia goes to the abandoned power plant and finds the God Particle in a dormant state. This episode traces the sequence of various events from 1888 to 2054 that complete the cycle of events in Winden. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW, Biden and Trump's First Presidential Debate Numbers Fall Short of 2016. In 1987, Mikkel struggles to live his new life as Michael with Ines as his guardian. The song "Goodbye" by Apparat in collaboration with Soap&Skin was used as the opening theme for the episodes. Aleksander, ignoring Hannah's blackmail attempt, calls Charlotte to the power plant in an attempt to clear his name with the police.

He then explains that Elisabeth will become Noah's wife and therefore Charlotte's mother. The elderly Claudia later meets with Agnes, a former member of Sic Mundus. A suspicious Clausen interviews Aleksander, who reveals his original surname – Köhler – before he married Regina. The elderly Gustav Tannhaus—H.G. While searching the caves, he finds a locked door leading to the nearby nuclear power plant, and although Ulrich's request to enter the power plant is refused by its director Aleksander Tiedemann, Bartosz's father, he is still able to clear the father of Erik Obendorf, a power plant driver, from his list of suspects. Including a chilling anthology of movies just in time for Halloween, Get your Netflix and Chills on for Halloween, Co-creator Matthew Negrete previews what's different and what's familiar about the new show. Elisabeth bludgeons the burglar to death with a fire extinguisher. Adam returns to Jonas on the day of the apocalypse and takes him to Eva's world, which Jonas is unaware of at that point in time.