I think a lot of the people who gave it a negative review really missed the point of the story.
A lot of people are comparing it to the German serie Dark. But Dark is not even close to what this story is.
The tale use a lot of subjects like the spring and fall equinox. Within that story they've put the story of how the spring mythologically starts (they refer to the goddess Ostara). Within thát story they also put the story of the origin of Easter. More specifically the love story of a hare and a bird. This whole get celebrated by a cult to which Ida and her friends gets involved with. But long story short: they've put a lot of folklore and astronomical theories in a pot and stirred that together to become a whole Netflix series.
Astrid and Ida are sisters, but not in the human way. Their mother couldn't get children. So by making a pact with the Hare twice she got two daughters. But they were not just daughters they were the daughters of something supernatural (in here they're called daughters of equinox). It's not very clear where they biological from. But looking at the series I get the feeling they have to represent the bird. Another character represents the hare.
Another thing in the serie: when paying close attention you would see resemblances between the Hare and the devil. Like the devil, making a pact with the Hare, you cannot undo the pact. When not fulfilling the pact, you'll get punished. And also: the class was trapped. This is actually the rabbit hole of the Hare. But the way those kids were trapped, you can compare the rabbit hole as the hell.
To not make it this review any longer: the mythical story has to do with some characters. How that became this kind of story has to do with some choices made in the past.
That doesn't take away that some subjects were completely irrelevant for the plot. Like the tattoo of Jakob... I personally think that having Falke and the busdriver as the sole survivors would be enough to tell the story. They should have put Jakob and Amelia also on the list of kids that disappeared, because in the present they don't really add much to the story. The busdriver and Falke already told Astrid enough to have this whole investigation happening.
A lot of people are comparing it to the German serie Dark. But Dark is not even close to what this story is.
The tale use a lot of subjects like the spring and fall equinox. Within that story they've put the story of how the spring mythologically starts (they refer to the goddess Ostara). Within thát story they also put the story of the origin of Easter. More specifically the love story of a hare and a bird. This whole get celebrated by a cult to which Ida and her friends gets involved with. But long story short: they've put a lot of folklore and astronomical theories in a pot and stirred that together to become a whole Netflix series.
Astrid and Ida are sisters, but not in the human way. Their mother couldn't get children. So by making a pact with the Hare twice she got two daughters. But they were not just daughters they were the daughters of something supernatural (in here they're called daughters of equinox). It's not very clear where they biological from. But looking at the series I get the feeling they have to represent the bird. Another character represents the hare.
Another thing in the serie: when paying close attention you would see resemblances between the Hare and the devil. Like the devil, making a pact with the Hare, you cannot undo the pact. When not fulfilling the pact, you'll get punished. And also: the class was trapped. This is actually the rabbit hole of the Hare. But the way those kids were trapped, you can compare the rabbit hole as the hell.
To not make it this review any longer: the mythical story has to do with some characters. How that became this kind of story has to do with some choices made in the past.
That doesn't take away that some subjects were completely irrelevant for the plot. Like the tattoo of Jakob... I personally think that having Falke and the busdriver as the sole survivors would be enough to tell the story. They should have put Jakob and Amelia also on the list of kids that disappeared, because in the present they don't really add much to the story. The busdriver and Falke already told Astrid enough to have this whole investigation happening.