‘Dark' Season 3 Release: Things To Know About Netflix's Mind-Boggling Time Travel Universe

Good news for all the "Dark" fans out there. The mind-boggling German sci-fi series is ready to light up your screens and minds, starting this June 27. This is a special day in the "Dark" universe. As mentioned in the final episode of the second season “Endings and Beginnings," this day marks the day of the apocalypse.

Exactly a month ago on May 26, Netflix released the trailer for Season 3 with the caption, “The end is the beginning. And the beginning is the end. Dark comes full circle on June 27th.” This season hopes to clear the fog of doubts surrounding the Dark universe.

For the viewers streaming the show from the West Coast, the show is expected to go online by midnight. While the streamers from the East Coast need to have an early rise as it goes online by 3 a.m. Refresh your memories and your Netflix browser or the app and get ready to enter the "Dark" world.

"Dark," created by the mastermind duo Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, first hit the screens on Dec 1, 2017. Since its release, this German thriller transformed into one of the most interesting, confusing and addicting shows ever on Netflix.

According to Variety, about 90 percent of the show's audience comes from outside of Germany

With all the confusion and questions left unanswered at the end of Season 2, the final showdown is expected to take the viewers for a ride to the next level. This time “the question isn't what time. The question is what world."

“There are also a lot of things in Season 1 hinting to Season 3. Also, we actually thought about putting some of the stuff that’s now in Season 3 into Season 2, but then decided to move it backwards. So basically now everything that’s left just falls into Season 3," Friese said in an interview with Indiewire.

The time travel series talks about the life of four families living in the imaginary small rural German town of Winden, where no one ever really comes or goes.

The lives of the Kahnwalds, Nielsens, Dopplers and Tiedemanns are all connected as the characters irrespective of the time frame they are in, tend to constantly mingle with and influence their past, present and future.

“In terms of diversity, that’s actually really one big thing that when you have people crossbreeding through different timelines you really can’t just throw in something because then otherwise you would kind of know who is whose child,” Friese added. “Even if the hair color is lighter or if they have freckles, then that’s kind of a hint. I make it very difficult.”

To clear out some of the confusion based on the connection between the characters, a detailed family tree explaining who is who of who can be viewed here.

The events of the story are divided into symmetric timelines between 1921, 1954, 1986, 2020 and 2053. As the events repeat itself within a calculated gap of 33 years.

“When you work with time travel, you basically have to decide on one concept,” Friese continued. “That’s where we basically put the groundwork, going for deterministic time travel rules. We’re hinting at that in the first season all the time that it’s a circle. Everything happens constantly in loops. I just felt that was such a multilayered story.”

IMDB has released a cheat video for those who are interested to watch the series but have no idea of what happened in the previous seasons.

Many of the characters are expected to return for the final showdown as most of them left with a lot of loose ends and dots to connect. Along with regulars, Season 3 will also bring in some new faces including Nina Kronjager, Barbara Nusse, Jakob Diehl, Hans Diehl, Axel Werner and Sammy Scheuritzel.

“We always think we have to answer everything. So every riddle we put in there, we feel we have to solve it,” she teased. “But we’re not going to solve every riddle because sometimes it’s funnier [that way]. I’m still not sure about the percentage, but it’s probably 10 percent [of the mysteries] we are not going to answer just for the fun of it, but they will be smaller. So, but I’m not going to tell you whether we’re going to or not.”