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It's a show that juggles the risks that come with time travel narratives with ease. Dark's plot is complex to the point where I make a sport of waiting for it to completely fall apart. I spent three whole seasons waiting for Dark to drop the ball and collapse beneath its own weight, but it didn't. 

This TV show is a miracle. 

Probably the worst thing you could say about Dark is that it's pretentious. Unlike other time travel shows like, say, Outlander -- which revels in camp and sort of begs you to watch ironically -- Dark takes itself completely seriously. It's almost unrelenting. 

Dark asks you to sincerely care about what's happening on-screen. It infuses its plot with multiple explicit references to Ariadne and the Bible. In most science fiction this would be enough to make my eyes detach from their socket and roll all the way backward into my brain, but Dark earns its delusions of grandeur by actually being good enough to sustain them.