Dark Matter (2024 TV series)

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Dark Matter
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Genre
Created by Blake Crouch
Based on Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
Starring
Theme music composerJason Hill
Jake Pinto
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes5
Production
Executive producers
  • Blake Crouch
  • Joel Edgerton
  • Jakob Verbruggen
  • Don Kurt
  • David Manpearl
  • Matt Tolmach
Producers
  • Dustin Bernard
  • Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
  • Jeff MacVittie
CinematographyJohn Lindley
Jeffrey Greeley
Running time46–59 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network Apple TV+
ReleaseMay 7, 2024 (2024-05-07) 
present (present)

Dark Matter is an American science fiction television series created by Blake Crouch, based on his 2016 novel of the same name. It premiered on Apple TV+ on May 8, 2024, with two episodes. [1]

Contents

Premise

A physicist in Chicago is warped into an alternate version of his life, leaving him to fight to return to his life to prevent the alternate version of himself from harming his family.

Cast

Main

Guest

Episodes

No.Title [2] Directed byTeleplay by [2] Original release date [3]
1"Are You Happy in Your Life?" Jakob Verbruggen Blake Crouch May 8, 2024 (2024-05-08)
Physics professor Jason Dessen lives with his wife Daniela and son Charlie in Chicago. When his friend Ryan wins a prestigious science prize, Jason attends his celebration at a local bar. As he leaves to return home, he is abducted by a masked man who injects him with an unknown drug that renders him unconscious. When he awakes, Jason finds himself in a laboratory facility where he meets Amanda and Leighton who are delighted that he has "returned". Unsure about what is happening, Jason escapes the lab and returns to his home, where he encounters Amanda who says she lives there with him—the decor of the house is completely different, and there is no sign of Daniela and Charlie. Meanwhile, Jason's abductor is revealed to be a version of himself, who enters his house and seduces Daniela.
2"Trip of a Lifetime"Jakob VerbruggenBlake CrouchMay 8, 2024 (2024-05-08)
3"The Box"Jakob VerbruggenBlake CrouchMay 15, 2024 (2024-05-15)
4"The Corridor" Celine Held & Logan George Blake CrouchMay 22, 2024 (2024-05-22)
5"Worldless"Celine Held & Logan George Megan McDonnell May 29, 2024 (2024-05-29)
6"Superposition"TBAMegan McDonnellJune 5, 2024 (2024-06-05)
7"In the Fires of Dead Stars"TBABlake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-ZekryJune 12, 2024 (2024-06-12)
8"Jupiter"TBAIhuoma Ofordire and Megan McDonnellJune 19, 2024 (2024-06-19)
9"Entanglement" [4] TBATBAJune 26, 2024 (2024-06-26)

Logan George & Celine Held, Alik Sakharov, and Roxann Dawson directed episodes. [5]

Production

It was first announced in December 2020 that Apple TV+ had entered into development of a series adaptation of Blake Crouch's novel, with Crouch set to write and act as showrunner. [6] The series was officially greenlit in March 2022, with Apple ordering 9 episodes and Joel Edgerton cast to star. Louis Leterrier was set to direct the first four episodes. [7] By September 2022, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Oakes Fegley and Dayo Okeniyi joined the cast. [8] [9] [10] In December, Amanda Brugel would join the cast in a recurring role. [11]

Production began in Chicago on October 4, 2022, and was expected to wrap by April 2023. [12]

Apple TV announced that the series will premiere on May 8, 2024. [13]

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 80% approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10, based on 50 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Dark Matter's intriguing ideas are spread a tad thin over its season-long runtime, but fans of foreboding sci-fi will find its residue addictively sticky." [14] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 63 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [15]

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