Lost influenced Dark

Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese have talked about Lost as the show that made this kind of series possible, and Dark is built out of its machinery: an ensemble whose secrets are revealed by shuffling time, an episode that belongs to one character's backstory, a hatch in the ground, and a mythology released in pieces. The difference is the one they have emphasised, that they wrote the ending first, which is the criticism Lost attracted answered in advance.