Netflix viewers rave about German thriller series as they hail 'out of this world' show

Netflix viewers have gone into meltdown after discovering German thriller Dark, branding the series 'out of this world'.

With fans ranking the show among the streaming platform's biggest hits such as Breaking Bad, Netflix's first German-speaking original show has received rave reviews from fans online.

Located in the sleepy German town of Winden, a series of strange events are sparked after two children go missing. 

Following the disappearances of the town's children, secrets and trauma spanning across four generations and four families begins to bubble to the surface.

Kicking off in 2019, Mikkel Nielsen (Dan Lennard Liebrenz) makes his way into a cave located near a nuclear plant.

Netfli x viewers have gone into meltdown after discovering German thriller Dark, branding the series 'out of this world' 

Located in the sleepy German town of Winden, a series of strange events are sparked after two children go missing  (pictured Louis Hofman, left, Lisa Vican, right)

But the youngster accidentally travels back in time to 1986 via a wormhole after following his future son Jonas Kahnwald (Louis Hofmann) into the cave.

Jonas was attempting to save his father - who had taken his own life -  and prevent his own birth after he discovered Mikkel had accidentally travelled into the past as a child.

However Jonas' efforts prove futile as Noah (Mark Waschke), who poses as a priest in an attempt to use young boys for time travel experiments, gets in the way.

After Mikkel is abandoned in the past, the fractured relationships and double lives of the Kahnwald, Nielsen, Doppler and Tiedermann families in 1953, 1986 and 2019 are exposed.

As season two sees many families attempt to reunite with their loved ones, the small German town faces a much greater problem - an apocalypse.

The third season, which launched in 2020, saw the show become even more complex as a parallel universe was brought into the fold alongside the end of the world.

Several of the town's youngsters team up in a bid to break the time travelling loop and restore the town's original reality.

However in the process of attempting to undo generations of overlapping time travelling, they eradicated everyone born as a result of time hopping.

The disappearances of several children in the sleepy German town unearths fractured relationships and double lives (pictured: Helge Doppler played by Hermann Beyer)

Fans have been blown away by the mind-warping Netflix thriller, placing it in their top three 

Viewers have been blown away by the complex show reminiscent of Stranger Things, with some taking to X, formerly Twitter, saying the series was 'the best Netflix show by far'. 

'Yup. Dark is certainly in my top 3 list. The movie is out of this world.'

'Easily one of the greatest series of all time.' 

'It was mind-blowing and confusing. I spent hours studying the family tree.' 

'Best ever....Opening Theme music still remains my favourite ever...and story.'

'I think it’s the best series that Netflix has and one of the best series in history, my favorite series along with GOT and Westworld'

'This is the best Netflix tv show I've ever seen in recent years.' 

'The beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. My all time favourite show.' 

'Dark is still by far, the best show Netflix has ever released to date.'  

An enthusiastic viewer penned: 'It is certainly amongst the most terrific things ever made in the history of cinema.. 

'The other shows I'd rate on par with it: GOT, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Man in the High Castle... 

'Recently released '3 Body Problem' is quite outstanding but I'd wait for next season to assess if it belongs to the top league.'

'Dark is the best Netflix show by far,' one chimed in as another asked: 'What’s the best Netflix original of all time and why is it DARK?'

One fan said: 'Dark is still by far, the best show Netflix has ever released to date'