"What we know is a drop”: contextualising Netflix’s Dark

Netflix’s Dark (2017–2020) is a landmark in international television and Netflix’s first German-language original series. Set in Winden, the show intertwines four families across generations and parallel worlds, using time travel to explore trauma, grief, free will, and intergenerational guilt. This edited volume contextualizes Dark’s narrative complexity, philosophical depth, aesthetic strategies, and cultural resonance, including its engaged global fandom. Organized into four thematic sections, the collection highlights the series as storytelling, cultural critique, and philosophical inquiry, demonstrating its enduring relevance and status as a defining work of twenty-first-century global television.