Dark, season 2
Jul. 13th, 2019 04:32 pmIt had similar plusses and minuses to season 1. A new plus is that while my least favourite character, Ulrich, doesn't get killed off in the first five minutes as I and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
monanotlisa devoutly wished he might, he's in it only briefly and intermittently, and this time around, I was more confident the show knows how much of a jerk he comes across as. (And the very last scene he's in is a terrific case of "fuck you, Ulrich". I mean, he totally deserved what another character did to him there, and it was more satisfying than a death, too.)
Season 2 is also the season of the Tiedemann clan - Egon Tiedemann as a young and old man is lovely, and Claudia middleaged and old gets neatly fleshed out. Also, Jonas aquires more than one brooding expression which is good because he's the central character of s2 even more than of s1, in several timelines and incarnations. The big twist of the season ( is spoilery. )
It's all very Greek tragedy, and on that note, while Stranger Things, season 3, had new character Robin made the obligatory Back to the Future incest joke ("did that mother try to bang her son?") in the family friendly assurance that of course no actual or intended incest happens in Back to the Future and thus there can be a joke about it, Dark, season 2, being a European show goes with the actual time travel caused incest, and then some. ( Not even the Habsburgs managed that one. )
As with season 1, I appreciate the show doesn't try to copy American tropes (other than Noah - evil preachers strike me as strictly USian as a trope; not that we don't have evil priests in European storytelling, but they're a different trope); its chosen main 80s trope - the fear of a nuclear desaster - being the biggest case in question.
Trivia: when Jonas ends up at the earliest point in the time line yet and hears people talking about "the war", he assumes they mean WWII and replies to the question where he was fighting "the Eastern Front". But the following reveal that he's ended up not post WWII but post WWI is obvious if you've been paying attention not just to people's costumes but also the state of the buildings (the very existence of same - post WWII, at least some bombed out houses would have been inevitable). Thematically, putting the start of the fateful developments around Winden not post WWII but with what historians often see as the Urkatastrophe of the 20th century also works.
In conclusion: continues to be not a must, but an interesting watch. Ulrich having been dealt with, I'm now rooting for the demise of the Junior Abu Ghraib squad, want more of the intriguingly messed up Jonas and Clauda frenemy relationship and continue to hope Charlotte will finally get something to do again.
monanotlisa devoutly wished he might, he's in it only briefly and intermittently, and this time around, I was more confident the show knows how much of a jerk he comes across as. (And the very last scene he's in is a terrific case of "fuck you, Ulrich". I mean, he totally deserved what another character did to him there, and it was more satisfying than a death, too.) Season 2 is also the season of the Tiedemann clan - Egon Tiedemann as a young and old man is lovely, and Claudia middleaged and old gets neatly fleshed out. Also, Jonas aquires more than one brooding expression which is good because he's the central character of s2 even more than of s1, in several timelines and incarnations. The big twist of the season ( is spoilery. )
It's all very Greek tragedy, and on that note, while Stranger Things, season 3, had new character Robin made the obligatory Back to the Future incest joke ("did that mother try to bang her son?") in the family friendly assurance that of course no actual or intended incest happens in Back to the Future and thus there can be a joke about it, Dark, season 2, being a European show goes with the actual time travel caused incest, and then some. ( Not even the Habsburgs managed that one. )
As with season 1, I appreciate the show doesn't try to copy American tropes (other than Noah - evil preachers strike me as strictly USian as a trope; not that we don't have evil priests in European storytelling, but they're a different trope); its chosen main 80s trope - the fear of a nuclear desaster - being the biggest case in question.
Trivia: when Jonas ends up at the earliest point in the time line yet and hears people talking about "the war", he assumes they mean WWII and replies to the question where he was fighting "the Eastern Front". But the following reveal that he's ended up not post WWII but post WWI is obvious if you've been paying attention not just to people's costumes but also the state of the buildings (the very existence of same - post WWII, at least some bombed out houses would have been inevitable). Thematically, putting the start of the fateful developments around Winden not post WWII but with what historians often see as the Urkatastrophe of the 20th century also works.
In conclusion: continues to be not a must, but an interesting watch. Ulrich having been dealt with, I'm now rooting for the demise of the Junior Abu Ghraib squad, want more of the intriguingly messed up Jonas and Clauda frenemy relationship and continue to hope Charlotte will finally get something to do again.
