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59 details you might have missed in all 3 seasons of 'Dark'

Kim RenfroJul 3, 2020, 03:54 IST

Martha in world two, and Martha in world one.Netflix

Netflix's sci-fi series "Dark" is made up of three total seasons of mind-melting twists and turns.
We've rewatched every episode to uncover some of the best foreshadowing and other details or references fans might have missed the first time around.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for all three seasons of "Dark."

Netflix's German original drama series "Dark" came to an end on June 27, 2020. The final episodes revealed how the devastating cycle of events, which unfolded over three total seasons, were a tangle of alternate worlds and wormholes and paradoxes.

Starting with the very first episode, "Dark" was a well-designed puzzle box. There were great moments of foreshadowing, or references and callbacks, that fans couldn't have picked up on with just one viewing. So we're here to retrace the best details — from the pilot episode all the way to the series finale — that you might have missed.

Keep reading to see all the best ones.

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Starting with the opening credits of the first season, the mirror-effect on the title card could have been an early nod to the idea of an origin world and the two parallel worlds.

Season One, Episode One: "Secrets" Netflix

Starting with the opening credits of the first season, the mirror-effect on the title card could have been an early nod to the idea of an origin world and the two parallel worlds.

Ulrich jokes about how "the Apocalypse is upon us" when he tells Katharina that it's the first day of school and therefore there was a long line at the bakery.

Season One, Episode One: "Secrets" Netflix

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The Nielsen kitchen wall of papers and photos has a maze/labyrinth pattern, and a ticket that says "Helge" on it.

Season One, Episode One: "Secrets" Netflix

Martha sensed the existence of the parallel world in the pilot episode, when she tells Jonas she had déjà vu.

Season One, Episode One: "Secrets" Netflix

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The song heard in Mads' cassette player, and on TV in the bunker, and again later in season one, has a lyrical connection to the events in "Dark."

Season One, Episode One: "Secrets" Netflix

There's a picture of a famous sculpture, "Laocoön and His Sons," among Mikkel's paintings in the attic.

Season One, Episode Two: "Lies" Netflix

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In the same episode, we got the first hints about the connection between "Dark" and the Greek myth of Ariadne and Theseus.

Season One, Episode Two: "Lies" Netflix

In Stranger-Jonas' hotel room, there are pictures of Theseus and the Minotaur. Plus, H.G. Tannhaus' book was published by a company called "Mino Tauros."

Season One, Episode Two: "Lies" Netflix

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Mads' grave marker has an infinity loop on it, since his body was never recovered.

Season One, Episode Two: "Lies" Netflix

Before Jonas (or the audience) knows that Mikkel is his father, there's a clever exchange between Hannah and Jonas that foreshadows the reveal.

Season One, Episode Two: "Lies" Netflix

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In one of the school scenes, in episode four, the teacher is referencing author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose famous play "Faust" has connections to "Dark."

Season One, Episode Four: "Double Lives" Netflix

The teacher also provided the first hint about Martha and Jonas' parallel worlds, and at the same time we saw the infinity loop symbol again.

Season One, Episode Four: "Double Lives" Netflix

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In episode five, we meet Noah for the first time and hear that he's with St. Christopher's Church — the patron saint of travelers.

Season One, Episode Five: "Truths" Netflix

In season one, young Ulrich and Hannah discuss a movie he loved, but never name it. He was referencing "The Breakfast Club," which would have come out the year before in the US.

Season One, Episode Five: "Truths" Netflix

In season one, young Ulrich and Hannah discuss a movie he loved, but never name it. He was referencing "The Breakfast Club," which would have come out the year before in the US.

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Charlotte mentions her grandfather being obsessed with "Nietzsche's eternal recurrence" long before we know she was raised by H.G. Tannhaus.

Season One, Episode Five: "Truths" Netflix

Martha's monologue in "Ariadne" is the first time we hear about the idea of "severing the knot" — which becomes a recurring idea in season three.

Season One, Episode Five: "Truths" Netflix

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Tannhaus mentions the importance of not just dual worlds but a third "dimension" in season one.

Season One, Episode Eight: "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap" Netflix

Another "glitch in the matrix" moment happens when Magnus and Franziska see a Raider candy bar commercial on TV.

Season One, Episode Ten: "Alpha and Omega" Netflix

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In the first episode of season two, Stranger-Jonas looks at the spot on the floor where Martha will die.

Season Two, Episode One: "Beginnings and Endings" Netflix

Similarly, Stranger-Jonas was shocked when he saw Hannah with Aleksander's gun, because that's the same gun that Adam used to shoot and kill Martha.

Season Two, Episode Four: "The Travelers" Netflix

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Young Elisabeth found a book in H.G. Tannhaus' shop that foreshadows the reveal of Adam and Eva's worlds with the origin world in the center.

Season Two, Episode One: "Beginnings and Endings" Netflix

We see that same depiction in the Sic Mundus group's headquarters a few episodes later.

Season Two, Episode Four: "The Travelers" Netflix

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One of young Regina and Claudia's last conversations was about a book titled "Ghosts," which is a fictional story about time-traveling children.

Season Two, Episode Three: "Ghosts" Netflix

When Agnes confronts Noah in the St. Christopher's Church, the numbers 47, 904, 24, and 182 are on a small board in the background.

Season Two, Episode Three: "Ghosts" Netflix

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In season two, Torben Woller told Clausen that Hannah could have married anyone. In the origin world, Torben winds up with Hannah.

Season Two, Episode Four: "The Travelers" Netflix

The painting Adam has in the Sic Mundus headquarters is "The Fall of the Damned" by Peter Paul Rubens.

Season Two, Episode Four: "The Travelers" Netflix

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In that same scene when we see the Rubens painting for the first time, Adam gives a hint about his true endgame.

Season Two, Episode Four: "The Travelers" Netflix

Stranger-Jonas had a terrifying sex dream about Martha that foreshadowed the "origin."

Season Two, Episode Five: "Lost and Found" Netflix

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In season two, we also got our first peek at the circular time travel device used by Eva's group in world two.

Season Two, Episode Five: "Lost and Found" Netflix

Magnus and Bartosz all joked about a dead woman in the lake while swimming in 2019, and we learned later that Katharina's body was dragged into the lake in 1987.

Season Two, Episode Six: "An Endless Cycle" Netflix

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Just before dying in 1987, Katharina pulled Helene's St. Christopher pendant off her neck and it was left in the sand.

Season Three, Episode Five: "Life and Death" Netflix

The necklace, like the gun mentioned earlier, has a trippy pathway through time. It was first given to Hannah in 1954 by Egon, the man she was having an affair with.

Season Three, Episode Four: "The Origin." Netflix

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Funnily enough, Egon asked Hannah if she knew Agnes Nielsen in season two, before she (or we) knew Hannah was actually Agnes' grandmother.

Season Two, Episode Seven: "The White Devil" Netflix

Claudia gave a hint about Martha's world (world two) when she spoke to Jonas in season two.

Season Two, Episode Six: "An Endless Cycle" Netflix

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Clausen says someone sent him an anonymous letter telling him he'd find answers about his brother's death in Winden. That letter-writer was almost certainly the Unknown.

Season Two, Episode Seven: "The White Devil" Netflix

Clausen says someone sent him an anonymous letter telling him he'd find answers about his brother's death in Winden. That letter-writer was almost certainly the Unknown.

In season three, the Unknown repeats that same quote (which is from Sigmund Freud) just before killing Gustav Tannhaus.

Season Three, Episode Three: "Adam and Eva" Netflix

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In Martha's world, where there is no Jonas, her boyfriend is a guy named Kilian instead. He was first seen in season one with Martha in the "Ariadne" play.

Kilian and Martha in season three (and world two), and Kilian in season one (and world one). Netflix

In Martha's world, Magnus starts telling a spooky story about the caves 100 years ago. That's almost exactly the time period when Sic Mundus was building the cave passageway.

Season Three, Episode One: "Deja Vu" Netflix

In Martha's world, Magnus starts telling a spooky story about the caves 100 years ago. That's almost exactly the time period when Sic Mundus was building the cave passageway.

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In Martha's world, she sees a vision of herself in a white collared dress in the woods. This is the outfit Martha wears in world one on the night she and Jonas had sex for the first time.

Martha's vision in season three, and the real Martha in season two. Netflix

In Martha's world, she sees a vision of herself in a white collared dress in the woods. This is the outfit Martha wears in world one on the night she and Jonas had sex for the first time.

That dress makes an appearance again when Jonas has a dream that his Martha, from world one, is sleeping behind him.

Season Three, Episode Five: "Life and Death" Netflix

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Claudia heard a major hint about the loophole in time travel when the radio was playing in 2020.

Season Three, Episode Two: "The Survivors" Netflix

In 2053, Elisabeth and Charlotte touched foreheads just like they did in 2019 when they said goodbye.

Elisabeth and Charlotte in season three and season one. Netflix

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The family tree on Eva's floor revealed that Bartosz was Noah and Agnes' father before we saw those events unfold.

Season Three, Episode Two: "The Survivors" Netflix

That family tree also has a critical mistake on it: Tronte Nielsen is not Regina's father. Apparently her father was Bernd Doppler.

Season Three, Episode Two: "The Survivors" Netflix

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This makes a scene between the adult Bernd Doppler and young Claudia much more uncomfortable upon a rewatch.

Season Three, Episode Four: "The Origin" Netflix

The Unknown repeated a quote Bernd Doppler spoke in season one.

The Umknown in season three, and Bernd Doppler in season one. Netflix

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The scars on the Unknown's lips switch sides when they go to the mirror worlds.

The Unknown in world one, and the Unknown in world two. Netflix

This is also why Martha's cheek cut switches sides.

Martha in world two, and Martha in world one. Netflix

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The doorway in world two says "Erit Lux" instead of "Sic Mundus Creatus Est." That's the name of Eva's organization.

Season Three, Episode Three: "Adam and Eva" Netflix

Just before his death, Eva repeated a line to Jonas that he'd already heard once from Adam.

Season Three, Episode Five: "Life and Death" Netflix

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The first time we see the origin world, the aspect ratio changes.

Season Three, Episode Seven: "Between the Time" Netflix

Silja took the dead-Martha's clothes so she'd blend in when she traveled to 1890 to meet Bartosz.

Silja and Martha wearing the same clothing. Netflix

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The final dinner scene also contains an important throwback line to Hannah and Ulrich as teenagers.

Season Three, Episode Eight: "The Paradise." Netflix

This whole exchange is almost word-for-word the same thing we watch young Ulrich and young Hannah say in season one, episode three, "Past and Present."

Season One, Episode Three: "Past and Present." Netflix

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