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1899 (2022)

2022 · Adventure,Drama,Thriller · sci-fi-speculative, historical-period

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1899 is a German-produced multilingual mystery thriller set aboard a 19th-century steamship carrying European immigrants to America, created by the Dark team of Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. It operates as a slow-burn, puzzle-box narrative in which the ship's passengers — speaking German, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese — are drawn into an escalating simulation mystery. The show is primarily for viewers who prize atmospheric dread, formal visual ambition, and intellectual engagement with unreliable-reality premises. Its production design and cinematography are frequently praised; its pacing and narrative payoff are its fault lines. Cancelled after one season by Netflix, it became a cause célèbre for the show's built-in Dark fanbase.

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The acting is amazing and I couldn't identify a weaker link really. There is a great variety of characters and nationalities which helps making some scenes more suspenseful and interesting to watch since language barriers can make communication between the characters more difficult.
1899 looks STUNNING in every single shot. I like films and series that choose a look and stick with it. This is so well done here.
90% of the running time are filler scenes, scenes of no value whatsoever, usually filled with silence, pointless and badly written conversations, slow motion sequences, and just uncomfortably long, clearly overly stretched out scenes for no reason other than to make them longer.
Every episode is literally made in the same exact pattern. The first 90% is completely stretched out and virtually nothing happens... Then the last 10% suddenly ramp up, so you're left with a cliffhanger that makes you wanna watch the next episode.
it's so badly done, there's a scene after scene of totally unrealistic interactions between characters who apparently don't understand each other, yet they communicate as if they do.

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