In February this year, the US launced a missile strike at an elementary girls school in Iran killing 168 children.
The entire Iran squad were pictured disembarking from their plane with pins on their clothing bearing the number 168, risking the wrath of Trump and America.
Before they filmed a single scene of Dark, the two people who made it already knew how the whole story ended, three seasons away. They wrote the ending first and spent 26 episodes building back to it. Nothing feels like filler because almost nothing was invented along the way.
The show even runs on a single number: 33. Every time it jumps to a new year, it jumps exactly 33, from 1953 to 1986 to 2019 to 2052. The writers set that clock in the first hour and never broke it.
One man, Baran bo Odar, directed all 26 episodes, and his partner Jantje Friese has a writing credit on every one. A single director and one lead writer across a whole show is rare at this scale, and a big reason it never loses its grip. The story follows 72 characters across six different time periods. The same character is often played by three different actors at three different ages, picked to look like one face aging over a lifetime. Names get passed down the family tree on purpose, so you are never quite sure who is whose parent. The creators always knew where it had to end. They just kept moving the pieces until it got there.
The same care went into the look. The crew spent six months in the forests near Berlin through winter, in real cold and near-constant rain, so the cast stayed wet and shivering for most of it. They shot on the Alexa 65, a top-end movie camera usually saved for big films, because it can capture near-total darkness and still hold detail in the shadows, so the picture stays pitch black without becoming a muddy smear. The cave scenes were filmed in an actual cave in central Germany. In a town painted almost entirely grey, a single yellow raincoat became the one spot of real color your eye could lock onto in any era.
The final season went further still. To build a mirror version of the world, the crew flipped every set, so staircases curved the other way and doors moved to the opposite wall, and they reprinted the books on the shelves so the spines read backward. Then they had the actors do it all left-handed, reaching for handles with the wrong hand, which the director admitted was strange and clumsy to shoot.
They wrapped just before the pandemic and dropped the finale on June 27, 2020, the exact day the world ends inside the story. The reviews matched the ambition. Season two sits at a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the first and third at 90 and 97, and the series holds an 8.7 out of 10 on IMDb from more than half a million people. That unbroken wall of green in the screenshot comes from one choice made before filming began: lock the ending first, then build all 26 episodes to reach it.
Cooking gas is now N2,400 per kilogram in Nigeria.
A 12.5kg cylinder costs roughly N30,000.
The minimum wage is N70,000 a month.
Nearly half of one month’s salary to cook food for your family.
This is the same government that removed fuel subsidy without a transition plan. Floated the naira without a support framework. Raised electricity tariffs without improving supply.
They did not remove one subsidy. They declared war on the Nigerian kitchen from every direction simultaneously.
Petrol to get to work. Diesel for your generator. Gas to cook your food. The three things every household cannot survive without have all become luxury items under the same administration within two years.
Let me tell you what makes this a policy crime and not just an economic problem.
Nigeria is a gas producing nation. We flare billions of cubic feet of natural gas into the atmosphere every year as waste while our citizens cannot afford to cook.
The raw material is literally burning above our heads while the processed version sells for N2,400 per kilogram in our markets.
This is a governance failure with a specific address.
Tinubu’s handlers will call this market forces. They will mention deregulation. They will find an economist to explain why Nigerians suffering is actually progress in disguise.
What they will not answer is the simple question every hungry Nigerian is asking.
If we produce the gas, if we export the gas, why are we paying more for it than countries that have none?
That question does not have an economic answer.
Na political answer.
You bloody liar!!!
These corporate criminal enterprises give Nigerians the worst services and tell them it’s the best possible service they are worthy of!!
Today is June 6 and I’ve already used 523GB.
I have 33 devices connected for me and my entire family.
I pay just $99 a month for unlimited 5G internet on 33 devices and an extra $120 for unlimited calls and internet on 3 private phones network .
And the word “unlimited” is truly “unlimited”
When I was in Nigeria, I spent over 200,000 naira on data in one month (excluding calls) and it was only connected to my phone and one laptop.
These corporate criminals are exploiting Nigerians.
“If you, Nigerians, fail to vote for Peter Obi, and Tinubu mistakenly wins, you will suffer. And I may not be here to suffer with you.”
-Pa Ayo Adebanjo, November 2022.✍️