Dark Season 02 Episode 07 Review!!

Once again the series before finale tries to send off the characters on a wild hunt to alter their futures. It again tries to deliver one killer punch to the gut before knocking us out.

Baran bo Odar this time gives his everything in the episode conceptually and execution wise as he seems to have really come to the business end of the story.

He seems to not approach any episode before finale as pre-final but a build up to what final exam will be. When we appear for board exams, we tend to become nervous and read everything all of a sudden which increases stress than serve any purpose.

We take all the final exam papers of previous years and start writing pre-finals as a part of preparation. But if we see them as a build-up to writing exam, then we will be mindful of knowing that change in new papers will be apparent while one or two old questions will appear.

Similarly, makers make 7th episode of 8 episode season a buildup to finale than a preparation for it. In other shows like Friends, we are prepared for the finale. Even Chernobyl too, points out at the end asks us to be prepared for it.

As the finale has its own pace and different or higher level than previous ones. Here, Baran doesn't use it as a preparation episode and creates enough instances to use all of them as build up for final punch.

We want now finale to be racy and deliver us on the twists that we are unable to guess. For storytelling and technical aspects this episode is far superior in a consistent series.

But the game is really at the higher level and we are fascinated to see the fate of the characters and the series too. Just follow the signal, you will be picking up the dots too.