Index of Dark Season 1, 2, & 3 (Review, Cast & Episodes)

It’s near to impossible that you haven’t seen people fawning over Netflix’s mind-boggling series, Dark. And we know that it has set you scratching your head because everything seems like a mess. 

Well, Science can be like that sometimes. With a ton of timelines and intertwined characters traveling back and forth now and then, it can be quite hard to keep up, that’s where we come in. We’ve prepared a detailed index of Dark for you so that you can catch up on every little detail and understand the plot for once and for all. 

Let’s say this is more like a revision every one needs before a major exam to thorough themselves with it. The only difference being that this is more of a short and sweet, simplified recap of the science-fiction series to help you through. 

And if you haven’t watched the series yet, it’s good for a quick catch-up session too! Because it’s a win-win, let’s dive right in!

Index of Dark Season 1, 2, & 3 (Review, Cast & Episodes)

Index of Dark Season 1: Travelling Through Time

The season starts off with an intriguing (and presumably the main plot point) – Mikkel’s disappearance. A town that has a nuclear powerplant feeding families by giving most of its citizens a job allegedly had a portal or a wormhole that provided access to 33 years in the past or the future. 

Mikkel was out in the woods with his older sister and Magnus, both of their partner and a classmate to hunt down a cave to get their hands on the hidden drug stash of a missing kid. In the process of which, Mikkel disappears himself. 

An explosion in 1986 gave birth to a portal or a wormhole that could grant access to a traveler to the past or the future every time the cosmos aligned. 

Jonas’s father dies by suicide and leaves behind a note informing that Mikkel actually traveled from the wormhole back here. He was raised by the Ines as Michael and he became Jonas’ father. Something that ended Jonas and Martha’s relationship too, since he got to know that the latter was his aunt. 

Jonas thus sets out to find Mikkel in the woods to bring him back but is stopped by The Stranger. The Stranger was the adult Jonas himself, who was trying to piece a device together to stop the wormhole but instead ended up being the cause of its creation. 

Hannah seems to not need much help to destroy Ulrich’s life. However, Mikkel’s disappearance brings back memories of Mads who also vanished in a similar way. However, a young boy does turn up in the woods after Michael goes missing but turns out it wasn’t him after all.  Ulrich does find out who killed his brother later, courtesy of the letters he found later in the season.

In 1986, Charlotte is seen as a young girl who was intrigued, albeit disturbed by a flock of birds killed by their eardrums burst. In 2019, we see her as a cop who is just as intrigued by the same incident that repeats itself – something linked to Mikkel’s disappearance too. 

Turns out her grandfather, a clockmaker, penned down the book “A Journey Through Time.” This was the exact book the Stranger referred to seal the wormhole after the blueprint gets delivered by Claudia who also travels through time. 

Meanwhile, Charlotte starts to get suspicious about Peter, doubting whether he had anything to do with Mikkel’s disappearance. 

Elsewhere, Helge, Pere’s father is in a nursing home blabbering about the disappearance of children with no knowledge of his involvement whatsoever. He then recollects that it was Noah who tasked him with kidnapping kids so as to test his time traveling machine’s efficiency. 

Helge then travels back in time to kill his younger self, in the process of which Ulrich ends up dying instead of him. In the end, the younger Helge survives the car crash, but the elder Helge dies.

Claudia was basically a time-traveling agent who would travel to various different timelines to help various people accomplish their jobs. She was initially introduced as Egon’s daughter and Helge’s tutor. 

Helge was the one to give her the copy of A Journey Through Time as well. Throughout the season, we see Claudia traveling to various places – coming back from 2052 to 2019 to help Peter and Tronte with Mad’s body, opposing Noah in 1986, and handing over the copy of the blueprint to Tannhaus in 1953. 

By the end of it all, we see Noah manipulating Bartosz into pretending to be Erik’s drug supplier, who also happens to be his enemy Claudia’s grandson – to lure him into becoming his accomplice after Helge’s unpredictable death. 

Index of Dark Season 2: Mysteries and Mayhems

Let’s start with the first piece of information you’d really like to know – Whether Martha is dead or not. Well, we’d say yes and no. The season ended with a twist that makes your heart stop beating for a split second. Jonas, who almost spends his entire life trying to protect his one and only love, Martha – ends up seeing her get shot right in front of his eyes. 

And this was seconds before the apocalypse loomed upon everybody and the scarred leader Sic Mundus Adam appeared and put an end to Martha’s life, altogether. But hey, worry not – because the moment Martha died, another one appeared by Jonas’ side. 

When Jonas asks her who she was, she corrects him and tells him he should rather ask from which world she was instead. Turns out she was from another timeline, and she’s still alive – so that’s a plus!

Let’s now jump to who Adam really is. Cue drumrolls for the shock – it’s our Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes, Jonas himself. The grown-up version of the sweetest character is the scarred man himself, trying to control the whole debacle. 

All of the mayhem that ever took place, starting from Noah kidnapping kids by luring Helge into it, killing Mads, murdering Claudia – it was all Jonas’ doing himself, and he did it all through time-travel. Oh, and also under the identity of Adam, so that no one gets to know who he really was. 

But here comes the bigger question, why would Adam kill Martha if it was Jonas himself? Well, the answer is simple – to keep himself alive. By the time Jonas got to know that he grows up to become Ada, he starts to despise his future self. His self-loathing nature turned into a resolve in which he promises himself that he would never become Adam, ever. 

To keep himself alive, Adam travels through his timeline and kills Martha – in a way compelling Jonas to take the same steps and end up becoming Adam too. After all, he was the one who was also indirectly responsible for the death of Mikkel. If Martha was dead in Adam’s timeline, she had to be dead in Jonas’ too. 

Agnes and Noah are actually brother and sister. All the heinous crimes every committed throughout the series can all be traced back to Noah, who was also Adam’s right-hand man. Agnes was the incarnation of love, well, not literally! 

Meaning, while her brother was the human-form of a devil’s messenger, Agnes was a much better being. She was the future mother of Tronte but also had a brief affair with Doris – something which his own daughter Claudia witnessed. Another secret pass-time that Agnes had was traveling through time to fix things. 

But well, it doesn’t quite come off as surprising since all the characters have been doing so. Season 2 basically ends with Agnes leaving the Tiedemann’s and Tronte to help Adam carry out the second stage of his plan. 

Another revelation that we have is that Charlotte was actually Noah and Elisabeth’s daughter. When she was born, Charlotte was taken away from them as a baby. The whole reason why Noah was in on Adam’s plan was solely because Adam promised Noah to return his daughter and everyone is saved in the next timeline. 

Thus, she was taken away to a clockmaker and raised by him instead. But you must also be wondering that isn’t Charlotte Elisabeth’s mother” Well, yes she is, She gets taken back to the past and ends up marrying Peter, and giving birth to Elisabeth. So simply put – Charlotte is Elisabeth’s mother and Elisabeth’s Charlotte’s mother too.

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Index of Dark Season 3: The Circle Comes to An End, Or, Does It?

Wilden in the alt timeline looks exactly the same as it did in the original one. Turns out it is all a cycle, and everything falls through – with little to no difference at all. 

For example, Ulrich again travels through time, following Helge thinking that he had to do something with his son Mikkel’s disappearance, turns out this time he attacked an adult Helge instead of a young boy, and injures his ear instead of his eye. 

In the other universe, Mikkel never travels back in time – which turns out to be the hugest difference. This means Adam or Jonas was never born, and in that there was no masterplan like Adam’s to end all the suffering and pain. 

However, the alternate timeline does have someone moving around the pawn pieces – it’s alt Martha, also known as Eve! (hello, mythology!). The two worlds seem tied together by a knot, a knot that Adam wants to break for once and for all; a knot that Eve wants to preserve instead. 

Here comes the knot – and why Martha wants to preserve it in the first place. After saving Jonas from the apocalypse, she ends up sleeping with him and getting pregnant – and gives birth to a son. This young man goes on to hook up with Agnes who gives birth to Tronte, who gives birth to Ulrich.

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Meaning that Jonas and alt-Martha’s son is also their ancestor, being the great-great-grandpa of the former and the great-grandpa of the latter. Adam and Eve’s son is what ties the two worlds together, whom Adam wants to kill and Martha wants to save. 

In one reality, we see Adam killing pregnant Martha, in another we see the son being born and doing Martha’s dirty work of killing and manipulating people to keep the knot alive – basically, himself alive. 

However – the origin knot wasn’t their son, but a third universe where Charlotte’s alleged father made a time machine to bring his daughter back. That was what gave birth to these two universes, so the only way to stop all the suffering was to go and stop the creation of the machine altogether. 

Kudos to Charlotte for cracking the time-travel puzzle! 

By the end, Winden looks a lot like it did in the origin universe. The only difference being the ones inside the knot -Jonas, Noah, Charlotte, Elisabeth, Franziska, all the Nielsens don’t exist anymore – but the rest outside of it was happy, and spared from the time-travel tragedies. The series ends with Regina being pregnant with a son, saying that she was willing to name him Jonas. 

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Conclusion

Well, that’s enough sci-fi and connecting the dots for today. Dark has been a household name now, and we can understand why. And since there’s no fourth season, rest assured that more mind-boggling is not on the way – which is both sad and relieving. For now, get your pajamas on, hop onto our links, and start watching this masterpiece. We bet you won’t regret it; happy binging! 

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