

The audience finds out very early on that Erik died as a result of the chair experiment, but it is not until his actual body is discovered in 1953, on the future grounds of the nuclear power plant alongside that of another young boy (Yasin), that anyone within the show's narrative knows. But in the first episode, it is revealed he is being experimented on in a bunker by a stranger, eventually revealed to be Helge Doppler (Peter Schneider), in 1986. It's kind of easy to forget about Erik (Paul Radom), who went missing in Oct. The note was found by Ines (Angela Winkler) and later found its way into the hands of 2019 Jonas, who eventually burned it.Įrik Obendorf disappeared two weeks before Mikkel. 4 at 10:13 p.m., which is when Mikkel disappeared. The show returns on this date in our lives, but in the show's wibbly-wobbly timeline, it is the date 43-year-old Michael (Sebastian Rudolph), formerly known as Mikkel, hanged himself in the opening scene of the first episode, "Secrets." He left a suicide note with instructions not to open it before Nov. Jis a significant date in the show's narrative too. He was befriended by Hannah (Ella Lee), whom he later married ( Maja Schöne), and together they became parents to Jonas.ĭark Timeline: The Netflix Show, Explained It's revealed he fell backwards through time, to 1986, where he was eventually adopted by Ines Kahnwald (Anne Ratte-Polle) under the name Michael. While everyone fled after being spooked by a strange sound, Mikkel disappeared. 4, 2019, 11-year-old Mikkel Nielsen ( Daan Lennard Liebrenz) accompanied his older siblings, Magnus (Moritz Jahn) and Martha ( Lisa Vicari), and their friends Jonas Kahnwald ( Louis Hofmann), Bartosz Tiedemann (Paul Lux), and Franziska Doppler (Gina Alice Stiebitz) to the caves in the Winden woods. On a surface level, Dark follows the Kahnwalds, Nielsens, Tiedemanns, and Dopplers, who are all connected by their intertwined family histories, which can get quite complicated even without the time travel aspect.Įverything "starts" when Mikkel disappears. There are four families at the center of the series. When you're done, head on over to check out our Season 2 refresher and explainer too.

Here's everything you need to remember about Dark Season 1. We rewatched all of Season 1 and Season 2 so you don't have to. The series, which revolves around four interconnected families in a small German town, first debuted in 2017, and because the time travel-focused series requires a special sort of mental gymnastics in order to understand its complicated relationships and follow its non-linear narrative, it's completely understandable if you don't actually remember much about Dark. The third and unfortunately final season of the twisty sci-fi drama Dark is now streaming on Netflix.
