
Georgia Tennant as Jenny, Helen's sister. Jamie Sives as DCI Jack Gosforth, Week's superior at the Manchester Metropolitan Police. Matt King as Phil Hendricks, a forensic scientist. Ashley Walters as DI Tim Cornish, a North Derbyshire Police officer leading the abduction case. Pearce Quigley as Trevor Hare, the owner of a pub in Helen’s hometown of Polesford. David Leon as DI Adam Perrin, a detective in the Manchester Metropolitan Police and Helen's former fling. Emma Fryer as Linda Bates, the wife of Stephen Bates who is the main suspect in the abduction of two young girls. Ben Batt as DI Paul Hopkins, Helen's partner and fellow detective in the Greater Manchester Police. MyAnna Buring as DI Helen Weeks of the Manchester Metropolitan Police. In the second two-parter, a heavily pregnant Helen is pulled into the dark side of urban Manchester as she deals with an unexpected tragedy. In the first two-parter, Helen finds out that she is pregnant and becomes involved in a case in which the husband of her childhood best friend is accused of kidnapping two young girls. Maybe then we’ll get some resolution.In the Dark consists of two separate two-part stories centring around detective Helen Weeks. Season 2 ends with a bonkers cliffhanger that promises to create even more complications in season 3, which is Dark’s last season. Boy, some of these characters’ stories are sad. Another aspect of Dark that makes it better than just its clever complications is the human drama. The set design, now across 5 time periods, is rich in its detail, and frankly I wish I knew where I could buy Adam’s blue lamps. One of the things everyone loved from season 1 of Dark was the eerie atmosphere, created by muted colors (except that raincoat!) and moody music. The real star is the production designĭespite the frustration of not getting a resolution, I still enjoyed season 2.
I was OK with that for the first 6 episodes, but irritated by episode 8. We get clues along the way, but never a resolution. We see Adam using Jonas as a pawn, but we don’t know to what end. And here is the frustration of this season: we never quite find out. We are never sure if his motivations are good, as he claims, or if he is the big bad. Adam is trying to control time, and he seems to be the puppet master, manipulating several characters into action, including bad priest Noah.
The disappearances were solved in season 1, so season 2’s mystery is “Who is Adam?” We know he is a badly burned older man who is the leader of a group of “travelers” called Sic Mundus. It’s a gripping ride, with many gasp-inducing moments. Whereas in season 1 the knowledge that that the Winden caves somehow facilitated time travel was the big reveal, Season 2 examines the motivation of characters who use the ability to travel through time, whether it’s saving someone or stopping a catastrophe or screwing someone over. Eventually many characters have past and future versions of themselves tripping through time, hence the need for the chart. But there is also a Future Jonas, played by a different actor, who needs to stop the apocalypse.
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Jonas is trying to figure out how to get back from 2052 to 2019 so he can be a teenager again. Season 2 picks up (in the current timeline) in June of 2020, 7 days before the apocalypse. In season 2, we find out that he’s in 2052, and there was an apocalypse in Winden years earlier. When we left our hero Jonas in season 1, he was getting knocked out with the butt of a gun sometime in the future.