The show starts off with a good mystery with some intriguing questions: Why are young boys disappearing from a German village and what does time travel have to do with the disappearance?

The show also has a nice little foreshadow: The question is not how. The question is when.

However, in the next 25 or so episodes, the series bogs down with its interweaved relationships and incest. So much so that the original premise becomes an afterthought and is never answered: Why did Noah and Helge target young boys to test the bunker's time machine?

And when the whole Sic Mundus organization is revealed, this question arises: Why were they building that machine when Adam had other time-travel devices?

As the show continues, the viewer receives several "Oh wow" jolts such as Elizabeth is her own grandmother, etc.

But then the finale comes--and guess what, all those "Oh wow" moments don't really matter. The writers could have put any cheap trick they wanted into the story--and they did--because they ended it all by saying, It was just a dream. First year creative writing students are taught to avoid the Deus Ex Machina, or Devine Intervention, ending. That's what this show contains. As Hannah explains, it was a dream. The ending wipes out 3/4 of the characters and leaves several questions unanswered.

I really enjoyed the show until the last episode. But the ending left me with a cheated feeling.