![]() The way 1899 is shot also makes it feel larger than life: Friese and bo Odar built a massive production facility to house “the volume” - basically giant LED walls - to shoot against realistic backgrounds rather than using a green screen, and it was worth every penny (I’m assuming it was a lot of pennies), because the show looks fantastic.Īnother way 1899 differentiates itself is that while Dark eased the audience into how wild its central mystery was going to get, 1899 wastes absolutely zero time making you feel unmoored. The setting is certainly grander - we’re on a steamship with over a thousand passengers from all over Europe and Asia in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 1899 feels massive in scope from the very beginning. Dark took place in a small German town, and even as it revealed more and more of its sci-fi layers, it always felt intimate. Wisely, 1899 establishes itself as an entirely different animal than Dark right out of the gate. ![]() The high-caliber storytelling that Dark pulled off only puts the pressure on Friese and bo Odar to pull off another magic trick with 1899. It’s a gorgeous, smart German time-travel story that will make your brain hurt and you will sit there, begging it to do it again and again. Oh, buddies, are you in for a treat when you watch that. If you found yourself watching 1899 without having seen Dark, you should add it to your list immediately. I’m going to assume that most people embarking on this journey are fans of 1899 creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar’s other trippy mystery Netflix series, Dark. ![]() But it is, from the looks of this premiere episode, going to provide us with one trippy-as-hell adventure. Journey across the Atlantic Ocean in seven days, they said! You can leave your dodgy past behind, they said! It will be fun, they said! Listen, cruises are a tough sell these days as it is, and 1899 - in all its mystery-box, lost-at-sea, creepy-kid-in-a-cabinet glory - is certainly not going to help fix that problem.
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