With Dark’s creators now writing for It: Welcome to Derry, some fans are wondering if they need to catch up on Dark first to fully get what’s coming in season 2.
Short answer: no, but it can help
There’s no confirmed story connection between Dark and Welcome to Derry — they’re set in different worlds with different characters. You won’t miss plot points in Welcome to Derry by skipping Dark. What you might miss is a sense of how its new writers, Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, approach non-linear storytelling, since that’s reportedly the exact skill set they’re bringing to the prequel’s season 2.
What Dark actually is, if you’re deciding
Dark is a German sci-fi series that ran on Netflix for three seasons (26 episodes total), debuting in 2017. It follows high schooler Jonas Kahnwald (Louis Hofmann) in the town of Winden after a child named Mikkel disappears, which leads to the discovery of a time loop that recurs every 33 years. It drew early comparisons to Stranger Things, though it was itself shaped more by Stephen King’s IT and Twin Peaks — which is part of why the creator connection to a King adaptation now feels notable.
Who this is actually useful for
- Skip it if you just want to follow Welcome to Derry’s plot — nothing in the current reporting says you need Dark’s backstory.
- Watch it if you’re curious how Odar and Friese handle time as a storytelling device, since that’s reportedly what they’re expanding on for Welcome to Derry’s three-season arc.
One caveat
This is based on the writing-team news, not on any confirmed shared universe or story crossover — treat it as a stylistic link, not a plot one, unless HBO says otherwise later.
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