was recently binging on the netflix show DARK. WOW what a soundtrack and music roster!! amazing stuff imo. No one else has picked up on this. I REALLY love the synth lines in the outro - it all makes stranger things sound like the teletubbies in comparison
I don't mind bleakness at all, I just thought it was poorly written relative to for example the first season.
I can kind of see that now that you mention it. The timeline was a lot more straightforward in season three than in the other two seasons. Sure it doesn't beat the first two, but it was still a great conclusion, I thought.