Episode 47: Dark
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
The LFTS team discusses the thrilling difficulty of following Dark’s plot, the show’s thematic debate about free will and determinism, and whether or not it’s possible to deliver a satisfying ending in modern TV.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we're talking about Dark, the Netflix series created by Baron Bo Odar and Jan Jeff Rees. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm joined by the lesson from the screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:18.0 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:19.0 | Gooden-Talk, Mekel. |
| 0:20.0 | And Alex Cayetos. Hello. I'm really, everyone. Brian Bittner. Gooden-Talk, Mekel. And Alex Cayetos. |
| 0:21.7 | Hello. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm really, really excited to talk about Dark. |
| 0:25.4 | Because I'm excited to talk about it with you guys, because we haven't ever all watched a TV show in its completion together, especially not a recent TV show, that this is all fresh in our memories. |
| 0:36.4 | And as I was watching it, |
| 0:37.9 | I was like, things were happening. I was like, oh, I want to know like how Alex reacted to that |
| 0:42.1 | or what Brian's thought about, like, what's Trisha going to analyze about this thing? So I'm just |
| 0:46.4 | very excited to talk about this with everybody. Quick spoiler warning. If you haven't seen dark, |
| 0:51.3 | we're going to spoil everything. |
| 0:58.3 | And it's a show where you can't really talk about it without spoiling everything. |
| 0:59.9 | So that's what's going to happen. |
| 1:00.7 | So prepare yourself. |
| 1:04.5 | And yeah, so Dark is a really interesting show. |
| 1:07.6 | It's a small town in Germany. |
| 1:08.5 | It's a German show. |
| 1:12.4 | And so it's very character-based, but it's also a time-travel story, but it's also kind of a murder mystery, but it's got a little bit of horror happening also. |
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