10 Best Episodes of ‘Netflix’s Dark’

‘Dark’ tells the story of four connected families in the small town of Winden as disappearances expose a hidden passage beneath the nuclear plant and a cycle that repeats across generations. The series moves among different years and parallel realities while following how choices made by parents and children ripple forward and backward in time.

This list focuses on ten episodes that carry key revelations and turning points in the story. Each entry notes where it sits in the timeline and highlights the events that explain the knot, the people bound to it, and the forces that keep everything moving in circles.

Alpha and Omega

Season 1 episode 10 brings together the strands in 1953, 1986, and 2019 when the passage links these periods and sets off the chain that defines Winden. Jonas follows instructions into the caves and is transported far beyond what he expects, while Ulrich remains trapped in the past and the plant’s hidden barrels become more important.

The finale locks in the idea that beginnings and endings are the same event and sets the stage for the future in a devastated Winden. It also confirms how abducted children are moved through time by a deadly machine, establishing the method behind the disappearances that started everything.

Endings and Beginnings

Season 2 episode 8 takes place on the day the reactor material becomes unstable and the catastrophe strikes Winden. Adam confronts Martha at the Kahnwald house and a second Martha appears with a small device, introducing a path that is not just across time but across worlds.

A portal opens inside the plant and links different years as Charlotte and Elisabeth reach for each other from opposite sides. The episode shows how multiple groups act at the same moment and how those actions lock the disaster into place while also creating a way out for a few key people.

An Endless Cycle

Season 2 episode 6 aligns events across several years that share the same June date. It revisits the day of Michael Kahnwald’s death, shows how the letter reaches the right hands, and tracks Ulrich’s situation in the fifties as investigators try to understand what he is telling them.

Jonas works with his older self to stabilize the portal so that controlled travel becomes possible. The hour lays out the repeated steps that move Mikkel from one time to another and ties those steps to the choices that keep the cycle repeating.

The Origin

Season 3 episode 4 reveals the figure called the Unknown and follows him at three ages moving through different years to secure the items and access needed to keep the cycle intact. His actions connect to the power plant and to the triquetra diary that passes between generations.

The episode explains how Jonas and Martha from the other world create a line that binds both realities together. It clarifies why certain people cannot be removed from the equation and why particular events keep returning in slightly different forms.

Paradise

Season 3 episode 8 sends Jonas and Martha to a third world that sits outside the two familiar realities. They intercept the Tannhaus family before a fatal accident and prevent the invention that would have opened the passage and split reality.

As the correction takes hold, people linked only to the knot disappear and Winden resets to a version without the passage beneath the plant. A final dinner scene shows who remains and hints at a faint memory that lingers even when the loop is gone.

Sic Mundus Creatus Est

Season 1 episode 6 introduces the secret society that uses the Latin phrase carved above a hidden door in the caves. Noah and Helge continue experiments with a chair that sends abducted children through time and leaves them with the same injuries.

The Stranger gives Jonas tools and a map that explain how the tunnels work and points him toward the machine that can control the passage. In the past, Claudia and Tannhaus discuss how a device could be built and what it would require to function.

Everything Is Now

Season 1 episode 9 follows Ulrich in 1953 as he tries to stop young Helge and changes the course of Helge’s life. Egon arrests Ulrich while doctors tend to Helge and the investigation into construction site remains draws in the Doppler and Tiedemann families.

Jonas is captured and placed in the chair as different years converge on the same location. Claudia takes control of the plant in 1986 and works with Aleksander to conceal the barrels that will matter later when the material inside begins to react.

Beginnings and Endings

Season 2 episode 1 opens in 1921 with a worker building a door for the passage and with Noah reporting to Adam, the leader of Sic Mundus. In 2052 Jonas explores a walled Winden, studies the swirling mass in the ruins of the plant, and learns it can be shaped into a path.

Back in 2020 the missing persons cases press on while Katharina searches for answers at the school and police station. In 1987 Claudia studies the machine with Tannhaus and sets up moves that will connect her across multiple versions of herself.

The White Devil

Clausen pushes a search at the plant and orders the ground opened near the tunnels which advances the chain that leads to the catastrophe. Charlotte confronts Noah and learns more about the origin of her family which links her to Elisabeth in a loop with no clear starting point.

Between the Time and Eternity

Season 3 episode 7 shows how multiple rescues happen at the last moment across both worlds using a small sphere that folds space. It places Magnus, Franziska, and others where they need to be so that the final plan can unfold without breaking the established pattern.

Claudia meets Adam after years of planning and explains the difference between what cannot be changed and what can be moved. Her instructions point to an origin outside the two worlds and prepare Jonas and Martha for the trip that ends the knot.

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