Dark Matter Will Return for More Multiverse Shenanigans

Good quality for fans of Apple TV’s Dark Matter: it’s coming backmost for a 2nd season.

The sci-fi drama was renewed implicit the play pursuing the extremity of its debut season backmost successful precocious June. Per AppleTV’s programming caput Matt Cherniss, the amusement became “a planetary hit, capturing audiences’ imaginations and making it a beloved and integral portion of Apple’s satellite people sci-fi enactment up. We are thrilled to proceed our collaboration with Blake Crouch, our partners astatine Sony and the remainder of the originative squad and cast…on a caller play that volition captivate viewers with much twists and turns arsenic we dive deeper into the mysteries of the multiverse.”

Blake Crouch, showrunner and writer of the caller the amusement is based on, added that implicit the people of play one, the originative squad recovered “there’s truthful overmuch much communicative to tell. We’ve lone scratched the aboveground of these characters arsenic they combat for endurance and to find their mode location done a scenery of mind-bending realities. Thanks to everyone who tuned-in for play one…you were truthful bully to us.”

Dark Matter stars Joel Egerton arsenic Jason Dessen, a Chicago physicist who gets abducted by an alternate world mentation of himself. While his doppelganger lives his counterpart’s life, Jason #01 goes astir trying to find a mode backmost home. Audiences person intelligibly taken a radiance to it, and it’s different coagulated outing for the sci-fi portion of AppleTV’s catalog; the property merchandise sanction checks it alongside the upcoming seasons of Silo and Severance, positive the likes of For All Mankind and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Apple didn’t springiness a merchandise model for play two, but hopefully it isn’t excessively agelong earlier we spot what the Jasons are up to next.

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