“We trust that time is linear,” says the narrator in the early moments of Netflix’s new sci-fi series Dark. But what if “yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive”? A few minutes later, a young boy is showing his newest magic trick to his dad, a variant of the venerable street hustle in which a pea moves from under one cup to another, unseen. “How did it do that?” wonders the dad. “The question is not how,” replies the magisterial young kid. “It’s when.”
From these snapshots, you can tell a good deal about Dark: that it’s about time travel. That the producers read a screenwriting textbook that contained a chapter or 10 about foreshadowing. And that watching this thing will require a degree of patience that would make Job look like somebody who accidentally took crystal meth in place of his OCD medicine. Television critic Glenn Garvin explains more.
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