# Dark Matter (2024)

> A Chicago physics professor is snatched into a branching multiverse and must fight his way back to his family, facing a rival who wears his own face.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/122426

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 19
- Episode runtime: 58 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: science fiction, thriller
- Created by: Blake Crouch
- Network: Apple TV
- Cast: Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, Oakes Fegley, Amanda Brugel, Aina Brei'Yon
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19231492/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, propulsive, intimate, melancholic

## What critics say

Critics and audiences find the high-concept multiverse premise gripping and emotionally grounded, though some reviewers fault its familiar alternate-reality tropes and uneven family drama.

## Synopsis

Dark Matter is an American science fiction thriller series created by Blake Crouch for Apple TV, based on his novel. Joel Edgerton plays Chicago physics professor Jason Dessen, who is abducted into an alternate version of his own life and must find his way back to his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and son Charlie (Oakes Fegley). Alice Braga plays Dr. Amanda Lucas, a colleague whose path crosses his across realities, while Jimmi Simpson and Dayo Okeniyi fill out a shifting cast of counterparts. The engine of the show is a hunt through a branching multiverse where every decision has produced a different Jason, and each episode pushes him closer to the one who wants to stop him. The show is serialized and runs across two seasons, with the story growing from a tight premise into a larger puzzle of choices and consequences. Its setting is a near-present Chicago and the laboratories and homes that stand between the versions of this one city. The tone is tense and propulsive, with a human core of marriage and parenthood. Fans of Dark and Fringe will find resonance in its layered reality-hopping and its emotional stakes, and viewers wanting a cerebral sci-fi thriller with a domestic heart will find it engaging.

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