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Apple's Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Series Gets Even More Ambitious (and More Heartbreaking) in Season 2

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Apple's Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Series Gets Even More Ambitious (and More Heartbreaking) in Season 2

In the first season of Apple TV’s adaptation of Blake Crouch’s bestselling sci-fi novel Dark Matter, physicist Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) travels through numerous alternate universes trying to find his way back home. Some are nightmarish, locked in endless winter or infested with killer wasps. But others are frustrating because they’re so close to his own reality that he gets his hopes up, only to face disappointment.

If the multiverse were real, there would be a world very close to our own where Dark Matter season 2 was one of the best sci-fi TV shows on streaming, joining the ranks of Apple’s Pluribus and Severance. But while the series is never a disaster, and its second season has moments of transcendent brilliance, it doesn’t quite live up to Crouch’s ambitions.

Dark Matter season 1 was a fairly faithful adaptation of Crouch’s 2016 book, where Jason is kidnapped by a version of himself (called Jason 2) who invented a box capable of multiversal travel and decided what he really wanted was domestic bliss. It ended with Jason reuniting with his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and teenage son Charlie (Oakes Fegley), who all flee their reality to escape from many other versions of Jason. Crouch is effectively penning a sequel as showrunner and head writer of season 2, alternating between the very personal drama at the core of season 1 and a broader story about the implications of multiversal travel.

The season gets off to a rocky start as it retreads the Dessen family’s problems while laying out numerous intersecting plots involving all the supporting characters Jason has become quantumly entangled with.


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