“Dark” thoughts, Season Three, Episode Six: “Light and Shadow”

It probably goes without saying after all that that we’ve reached the most science-fictional point in the narrative thus far. You have to have a pretty tight grasp on the cast and the overlapping, sometimes contradictory timelines and alternate realities to have the first clue what much of the action of the episode is even about. If people were to accuse the show of disappearing up its own ass, I couldn’t really blame them.

But in the end, what you have here is a story of people being ground down by forces they can barely comprehend and cannot control. There’s a universality to that sentiment; dig past the twelve different versions of Martha or whatever and you’ll see it plain as day.

I reviewed episode six of Dark Season Three for Decider.

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