Dear Child
Dear Child Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
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About
"A tightly wound identity puzzle with real bite"
A German thriller that opens with a woman escaping captivity with a young girl, only for the case to unravel into a tangle of missing persons, false memories, and mistaken identities. Told through shifting timelines and perspectives, it moves briskly across six episodes, favoring tight plotting over slow-burn atmosphere. The tone is bleak and tense rather than action-driven, closer to a puzzle-box mystery than a procedural. What carries it is the structure itself: information doled out in careful, disorienting fragments that keep you recalculating who's lying and why, right up to a fairly satisfying, if grim, resolution.
the fractured timeline that keeps recontextualizing what you thought you knew.
you find fragmented, nonlinear storytelling more confusing than compelling.
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All Seasons

| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Hannah | 7.7 | 944 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Großvater | 7.7 | 854 | 47 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Das Haus | 7.8 | 838 | 51 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Regeln | 7.5 | 763 | 50 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Geschenke | 7.3 | 739 | 48 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Für Lena | 7.3 | 796 | 47 min |