Prepare to jump back into the box with Joel Edgerton once again with the news that Apple TV+ has renewed their sci-fi drama Dark Matter for a second season.
Fans will be relieved that the really-rather-excellent adaptation of Blake Crouch’s novel will get to extend its timeline beyond the nine-episode first season run, which ended in June with an ambiguous cliffhanger.
Crouch, who also acts as showrunner for the series, will have to start drawing up more timelines, because season one covered the entirety of his 2016 book. In a statement he said “In the process of writing and filming season one, we discovered that there’s so much more story to tell, and we’ve only scratched the surface of these characters as they fight for survival and to find their way home through a landscape of mind-bending realities. See you in the Box.”
Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. The series follows Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
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