![]() The show is based on the theory that time has a third dimension, making it possible to time travel between years separated by 33 years (there are several theories on the significance of 33 years). In the first and the second seasons (which the creators call ‘cycles’), several characters time-travel between the years 1921, 1953/54, 1986/87, 2019//53. Copious notes taken by Akhil to plot the time travels of characters in Dark He went back to the show this time with a notebook. These timely-untimely epiphanies convinced him to do something around the show, the first step to which was to get a clear understanding of the plot himself. (He concluded, and we agree, that the two shows are more different than alike.) “Then a few weeks passed and certain things from the show started coming back to me at odd moments,” Akhil said. ![]() First time around, he devoured the entire two seasons in a marathon session. More help is offered by fans and admirers, who are dedicatedly decoding the show, like Bangalore-based graphic designer Akhil G, who was drawn to the show because of its comparison with Stranger Things, another sci-fi by Netflix. The show can get so convoluted that Netflix felt compelled to produce a user-manual of sorts, an online character guide that can be referred to when your head is dizzy with mental math of who the fuck is who. Like many of the artefacts from the show, Travellers of Winden aims to provide some clues to the puzzle. With its complex timelines, events and characters in Winden are not exactly easy to keep track. The visualisation forms the trinity knot, as used by the characters in the story to demonstrate the timelines. This project is a look at the journeys made by the travellers in the fictional town of Winden, Germany, over the first two seasons of Dark. ![]() To this, add time travel, David Fincher kind of mood, philosophical lines and mysterious prophesies dropping like dead birds (“The question is not how but when”, “Everything is connected”), actual dead birds dropping from the sky (they are also mutated), underground passages taking you 33 years ahead or behind, a rogue nuclear power plant, and if that was not enough, the show is dubbed in English and has English subtitles that, bewilderingly, don’t match the dubbing (at least in India), and you have a show so tough to watch, and impossible to not watch. Streaming TV addicts and science fiction show lovers vouch for Netflix’s Dark, a German language set in a fictitious German town of Winden, that is intentionally confusing, overwhelmingly layered, and more twisted than meets the eye (The main character, Jonas, simplifies a part of the second season’s plot for us, “Now I have another grandma, and she’s the principal of my school! Her husband, who’s fucking my mom, is looking for his son, who’s my father! A few days ago, I kissed my aunt!”). ![]()
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