As we settle into our new knowledge and use it to navigate the expanded storyscape, we are hit with the mid-season reveal that shatters our comfortable familiarity and once again kicks off a thrilling chase to the season-ender. The scope of the story expands dramatically, and we learn more startling things about people and places we are familiar with.
In Season Two (8 episodes), the game is afoot from the get-go. So I successfully resisted watching Season Two when it was released and watched it only once I was sure that it actually ended after Season Three. This hooks you into staying glued to the screen all the way through to the end of the season without even a toilet break!Īt this point, I made what is perhaps the best binge-watching decision I have made in my life - that I would not resume watching the show till I was sure it was over, and all episodes were available to watch. But then suddenly there is a crazy twist revealed in the most nonchalant and unexpected way, using a Chekov’s gun from the beginning of the series. By the middle of the first season, you are convinced it was a mistake to be tricked into watching it and want to go back to rewatching Archer. It kicks off with a suicide by hanging, a missing person and the sudden and dramatic disappearance of a little boy - all this in the first episode! But then the story slowly builds around these events, and we are drawn into the families and their inter-relationships. But that is also because we need to know who is who, and the relationships between the different members of each of the families. The 10-episode first season is perhaps the slowest. At times, it is a matter of joy to take a few minutes between episodes and just sit and let it seep into you. This complexity is woven into every little bit of this masterpiece - the plot, the character arcs, the action spirals, and most importantly, your own point of view. Then, go on and break every single rule of time travel fiction, and you have begotten a creation that stands up against the most complicated dessert you have seen on MasterChef Australia and laughs in its face. To this mixture, add in time travel, and you have the beginnings of an epic tapestry.
Involve four of them, and it is a swayambhu Gordian knot. All of this makes for a more gripping focus on the storylines.Īny story involving families is necessarily complicated. The different forms taken by the town and the area surrounding it in the different eras are portrayed flawlessly and seamlessly. This allows for beautifully atmospheric and dark scenes to alternate with bright daylit ones, creating and relieving tension as the situation demands. Dark is set in a small town called Winden, adjacent to a nuclear power plant and surrounded by a forest.
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