
Apple TV’s
Dark Matter is based on the New York Times bestseller by Blake Crouch, who also created the series and serves as showrunner. In season one, Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) was abducted from his home and left in an alternate universe where he never married his wife, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly). As he fought to make his way back home, he discovered that another version of himself not only created the Box, which allows people to travel between realities, but he was also the person who kidnapped him to steal his life. Eventually, Jason makes his way back to his own reality where he and his wife and son, Charlie (Oakes Fegley), leave their world to find a place they can start over.
Season two, which is a completely new story, picks up with the Dessens trying to settle into a quiet life that is disturbed by another version of Jason, and they are forced to run again. But as Jason’s obsession with the Box grows, it threatens to tear his family apart.
Sci-Fi Vision recently spoke with Crouch about
Dark Matter season two, expanding beyond the original book, and writing a sequel in a different medium. Crouch discussed how the new season explores regret, alternate worlds, the aftermath for Jason’s many iterations, and the challenge of tracking multiple versions of characters and worlds. He also talked about diverging from the main story for episodes five and eight, World X, the ambitious episode ten sequence, and writing more for characters like Amanda (Alice Braga), Ryan (Jimmi Simpson), Blair (Amanda Brugel), Leighton (Dayo Okeniyi), Charlie, and Daniela.
New episodes of
Dark Matter premiere Fridays on Apple TV.