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This is a german program with 3 seasons. I just finished season 1. It’s a slow moving tale about missing children in a small town in the woods with an ominous cave. Spoiler: time travel is involved.
It took a little while to get into it, but I’m enjoying the story. I’m finding it a little hard to keep track of the characters, especially across the different timelines, and they keep introducing new characters.
The tone is a bit like Lost, but much of the time, the actors are standing in a downpour without hats or umbrellas. I’m watching the dubbed version with subtitles which don’t match, and I’m not sure which is better. There’s some good music selections on the soundtrack, eg: Agnes Obel.
It just ended on a cliffhanger, but all 3 seasons are available, so I can jump right into the next one.
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OK. season 2 picks up steam. I'm not sure if it's because I have a better handle on who is who and how the different characters are related, or if the reveals are just finally putting the pieces together. It's like a book that you can't put down. I binged 5 episodes yesterday. 3 more to go for this season.
The story reminds me of "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold, but instead of following one character's path thru time, there's a multitude.
Of intertwined stories to follow.
It gets pretty philosophic at times: good vs evil, predetermination. Lots of coverage of time loop paradoxes.
Season two is less wet so far.
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Season 3 is wet and foggy and adds world hopping into the time-travel stew making it that much harder to keep track of who is who. Team light vs team dark, but is either right? So much philosophy...I kinda had an inkling of where it was going, but it was still interesting to see how all the threads play out. It's a constant greek tragedy where you pretty much know what's going to happen on some level, but the stories keep getting repeated. The dialog keeps getting repeated, but sometimes by different players.
I liked it, even when struggling to make sense of it all.
Recommended if you are into that timey-wimey stuff.
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