Season one of Apple TV’s Dark Matter didn’t stick exactly to Blake Crouch‘s source-material novel, but the series—which has Crouch himself aboard as creator, executive producer, showrunner, and writer—followed similar plot contours and reached a similar ending. Season two, therefore, will strike out into entirely new territory, showing us what happens next after Chicago physics professor Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) reunites with his family after being kidnapped into another dimension by a jealous alt-reality version of himself.
As fans of Dark Matter will recall, it took a lot of dimension-hopping for Jason to find “his” wife, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly), and teenage son, Charlie (Oakes Fegley). This quest included many confrontations with other Jasons, including the ruthless, FOMO-strangled version of him who invented “the Box”—a device that allows him to visit different realities that look like his own but are often catastrophically altered.
Other characters we met in season one included Ryan (Jimmi Simpson), Jason’s fellow science genius and frenemy; Amanda (Sonia Braga), a psychiatrist who’s in love with a different version of Jason, but ends up helping “our” Jason; Leighton Vance (Dayo Okeniyi), who runs the company that’s helped one of the Jasons build the Box; and Blair (Amanda Bruegel), who’s on her own cross-dimensional journey. They will all be back for season two.
Apple TV announced today that the new season of Dark Matter will arrive August 28 and shared these first-look images.
Season two will “pick up with the Dessens as they settle into a quiet life in a world that finally seems safe until the unimaginable forces them to run once again. As Jason’s obsession with the Box deepens, Daniela’s growing paranoia pushes her to the brink, threatening to tear their fragile stability apart. Elsewhere, Amanda and Ryan join forces in a desperate attempt to find their way home. With Blair determined to stop him, Leighton relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.”
Dark Matter season two will have a weekly rollout, with new episodes arriving Fridays through October 30 on Apple TV. Are you excited to step back into the Box and see what freaky terrors the Jasons discover next?
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