Release OrderRecommended
0 / 3 watchedThree seasons in air order. This is the only order a first-time viewer should use.
- 1 Dark Season 1 10 episodes. Starts with Erik and Mikkel vanishing in 2019.
- 2 Dark Season 2 8 episodes. Expands to 1921, 2052 and the apocalypse of 2020.
- 3 Dark Season 3 8 episodes. The mirror world and the origin. Released June 27, 2020. Latest released entry.
Simplified Chronological Order
0 / 5 watchedA simplified era map for rewatches only. Scenes from all three seasons interleave in almost every episode, so this groups the story by period. Do not use this list first: reading it spoils every major reveal.
- 1 1888 to 1921: The Origin Era Adam's war and the early travelers. Drawn mostly from seasons 2 and 3.
- 2 1953 to 1987: The Middle Loops Ulrich's trap, the bunker years, the young Tronte and Regina threads. Across all three seasons.
- 3 2019 to 2020: The Present Where season 1 starts: the disappearances and the cave passages.
- 4 2052 to 2053: The Ruin Jonas wakes in the dead future. Mainly season 2.
- 5 2019 (Mirror World): Eva's Knot Martha's world and apocalypse day. Season 3.
About Dark
Dark follows four families in Winden, a small German town where missing children expose a time-travel knot stretching from 1888 to 2053 in 33-year jumps. All three seasons, 2017 to 2020 and 26 episodes, were planned as one closed story, and the June 2020 finale ends it for good.
Watch in release order. The mystery is the point: every timeline reveal is timed for maximum shock, and no other order preserves that.
Good to know
Warning: the chronological list below names eras and connections that are themselves spoilers after season 1. Use it only for rewatches. A strict scene-by-scene chronology would mean cutting between episodes constantly, so the second list groups the story by period instead. No continuation was announced as of 2026-09-17.
