Dark

I've been, very slowly, getting into the Netflix show Dark, which you might recognize from the screensaver on the PS4 or other similar device Netflix app.

There's a lot to take in, and I don't know that I'll be able to give even my usual brief rundown on the premise, but here goes:

The show takes place in a small (fictional) town in Germany called Winden. Seemingly well-off, the town naturally has its fair share of dark secrets and underlying problems. The thing that sets the plot off is the disappearance of a kid named Mikkel, whose father Ulrich is a police officer.

Something about the kid's disappearance is related to this odd cave that seems to lead under the soon-to-be-decommissioned nuclear power plant.

There's something mysterious, something sinister, and something vaguely sci-fi-y that's suggested by the end of the first episode, but the big reveal is a couple episodes later, when we discover that Mikkel, while alive and unharmed, has traveled back to the mid-1980s.

The show appears to be constructed very elaborately, as a good time-travel story ought to, and I have not gotten any sort of handle on how exactly everything is connected.

There are a lot of characters, and I suspect that as the show goes on, the relationships between them will grow more complex as the twistiness of time travel becomes part of the narrative.