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Finished Netflix's 'Dark.' What's the German word for 'pissed'?

There was a time when it was enough to say that you watched "Masterpiece Theater" or, a decade later, that you considered "The Wire" the best show ever. Now, identifying yourself as a television smarty pants - er, connoisseur - has become a bit tougher.

Are you a late-adopting but very enthusiastic fan of "Schitt's Creek"? Is "Peaky Blinders" your safe place when cocktail conversation turns to "what's everyone watching?" Documentaries are always a good bet, as is elegiac praise for "The Americans." But if you're name-dropping to impress, you still can't beat foreign titles.

So it is with a certain amount of chagrined self-awareness that I find myself demanding to know why the German cave-in-forest thriller "Dark" is getting so much attention when the French-Belgian ravine-in-forest thriller "Black Spot" is so much better.

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