It is happening again.
-I must admit that all I want is for Ulrich to have the screen time he had in season 1.
-Nice opening words.
-I love these openings with photos and narration.
-Is that Bartosz? Is he the same guy from the beginning of season 2 in 1921? This scene is really dark (pun not intended).
-Nope, he’s not. And he’s with two other new characters. Though I’m guessing the three of them are the same character, because time travel.
-I’ll go ahead and say they hate Adam, like we all do. Seriously, nobody wants to see Jonas turn into him.
-Especially hot Adult Jonas.
-I love how I never understand anything from the opening credits at the beginning of a season.
-Back at the end of last season, with new Martha and Jonas. I do love me some easy-to-carry time travel machine.
-I’m very wary of alternate realities, I must admit.
-What does that mean? Good question, Jonas. A question I could ask about every single line uttered on this show.
-This thing about two worlds reminds me quite a bit of Doctor Who, circa Rose’s departure.
-Sure, leave the kid alone in a cave. Nothing can go wrong.
-Ohh, I just realised that the alternate thing includes letters the other way around. And here, Martha is Jonas? I need answers!
-Mikkel looks older. The curse of having kids grow up and all that.
-A big fat no to dark-haired Magnus. He looks like Tommy Wiseau.
-Okay, yes I assumed they lived there because the parents are divorced. Aaand Ulrich is the one cut out of the photo this time.
-And Martha has the yellow raincoat! So many things to say about this. But shut up. Ulrich!
-Ugh, Ulrich is with Hannah. But Hannah is the worst! Unless here, she is the best. Which I doubt.
-I’m going to get ahead of myself and say the baby Hannah is carrying is the triple man from the beginning.
-Does the raincoat have magical powers? Just asking for a friend.
-Should I assume Jonas doesn’t exist in this alternate reality? Perhaps Hannah never married Michael. I know. Stop guessing.
-Someone please offer Jonas a place where he can shower and put on some new clothes.
-Is Bartosz a shy history-professor-to-be?
-Ugh is this Kilian this world’s Jonas? Or this world’s Bartosz? Or this world’s Martha? I have so many questions.
-It will happen again indeed. I miss Helge. He is hands down the best character.
-Jonas is slowly starting to look more and more like Adult Jonas. Nice touch. The casting in this show has always been superb.
-Yes, Jonas, this is not your house.
-Wait, is the house also the other way around? I remember Jonas’s bed on the other side.
-Wöller is missing an arm instead of an eye. Gotta respect the symmetry of things.
-Bloody hell, I had forgotten that Ulrich was a cop! What the hell is wrong with me? Except, Charlotte was the boss in our reality, wasn’t she?
-Oh, yes Hannah, he is a cheater in every reality. This is creepy, but also, I love it.
-Do men not cut their hair in this reality?
-Geez, Jonas, don’t enter that classroom. You look like a hobo and this Alternate Martha is clearly before the time she met you.
-Special connectioooon (read while singing).
-Why should Aleksander be having a bad time? Is Regina dead here? Is that why Bartosz is so weird?
-Yup, definitely dead.
-Hannah, if that is your way of checking if the hair is Katharina’s, you are a terrible detective. But also, who is she? Oh my, is it Charlotte? She’s the only blonde I can think of.
-Someone give Jonas a strong cup of coffee.
-Jonas, you should know by now, after all the travelling, that this Martha is from the time before she met you.
-Aaaand now he knows when he is.
-Of course he was going to run into Alternate Hannah. He just realised he doesn’t exist in this reality. Tough. Although he has been through much worse things.
-Oh my God I called this like three minutes ago!!! It feels so weird that Ulrich and Charlotte are having an affair.
-Why can’t Ulrich be faithful to anyone?
-I’m starting to regret my initial wish of having him show up again if all he is going to do is cheat on everyone.
-Martha’s performance was much more nuanced than Alternate Martha’s.
-Are they seriously making out during the rehearsal? I don’t like this Kilian.
-Big slap of reality, Jonas. Well, alternate reality. So, I guess Mikkel won’t disappear here. Alternate Martha from 2020 should really have told Jonas something. Anything. A bit of information to go on.
-Again, I hate Magnus’s hair.
-Wait, is Franziska the mute one here? Now I can’t remember if she said anything in her previous scene in the house.
-Okay, the girl who plays Elizabeth has also grown up a lot. And yes, she talks.
-Oh, so Helge is living with them! Helge rules.
-The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning. I am getting more and more certain by the minute about Jonas dying at the end of this series.
-Peter is a priest here. Well, people used to (and still do) turn to priests for spiritual advice, which is some sort of therapy, after all.
-If Jonas has to be there to stop Mikkel from disappearing, couldn’t have Alternate Martha just told him? Seriously, communicate, people.
-1987? Okay, I need to pay attention now.
-I must say that kid looks a bit like Ulrich.
-This is getting creepier.
-Does Aleksander have a beard in this reality because his wife dying makes him too sad to shave?
-Okay, I just realised, in this reality, Bartosz is the sad one with a dead parent.
-I swear I just heard the smoke monster from Lost.
-Jonas, stop talking. You sound crazy in front of your non-friends.
-Dark-haired Magnus is so mean.
-Bartosz looks too taciturn, all the time.
-Of course there is a weird sound coming from the cave. Called it! I’m just curious about who is going to disappear this time.
-Whoever whispered “Martha”, that was scary as hell.
-Who was that? Wait, this happened in the other reality as well with someone else, didn’t it? I should have rewatched the other two seasons right before this, because I can’t remember s**t.
-Oh, so Jonas’s room looks the same. It’s Mikkel’s now, not Martha’s.
-I’m sorry, why are they hiding in the bunker? It wasn’t a big deal.
-Oh, okay. It is.
-Damn it, it’s Mads Nielsen. They find him in this reality. The other time, it was Peter, wasn’t it? And he called Ulrich’s dad.
-Then, Martha’s ball travels both in time and between worlds. That was just a random thought of mine.
-Did Jonas want a world without him, though?
-And things are shit anyway, so it would accomplish nothing.
-Friends, is that old Martha?
-She stays loyal to her bangs.
-Rain, rain, rain, rain.
-Bloody hell, 1888? I need to grab a calculator for all the 33-year cycles.
-Is that grandpa Tannhaus? Great grandpa?
-What the F*CK! Jonas went back from 2020 to 1888?
-It would explain why he is so old in 1921 and the others are older as well.
-Damn it, Adult Jonas is haaaaaandsome. I am going to say this quite a few times in my recaps. Sorry.
-Wait, Adult Jonas doesn’t remember this Alternate Martha from his teens? So she is really changing things!
-I have way too many questions.
-But for now, I would like to leave you with the disturbing realisation that the twins from The Shining are part of this episode:
Corleones & Lannisters 