Dark Matter

nice. Probably 2026 release though.

finally got around to watching this after finishing Snowpiercer which also stars the excellent Jennifer Connelly

Dark Matter is ok, its pretty lite on the sci fi and heavy on the romance drama so the show really limps along at a boring pace for the first 7 episodes. You could honestly just skip most of it and miss little. Episode 8 is great though and really goes hard on the sci fi elements. Then the show ends after 1 more episode lol. Season 1 covers all of the book so it'll be interesting to see what the hell they do for season 2, it'll be all new stuff not from any book.

I was really annoyed at how literally the box was a magic mcguffin that had almost no complexity to it, it just "shields everything" combined with a serum that sleeps your brain makes everything work. Super lame imo. The other huge annoying thing is they never fucking talk about Dark Matter itself, the thing that makes up 27% of the universe and we know literally nothing about. I thought it would be a huge part of how the superposition box works but nope, nothing to do at all with fucking anything. lame.

Didn't hate the show, but not really a top tier sci fi show, just another mid level Apple TV+ sci fi show but I can't complain too much, better than the years when we don't get shit.

Jennifer Connelly and the dude from Its Always Sunny make the show, the main actor is fucking drab and boring as hell. He's the white Anthony Mackie. I never thought a white guy could be a DEI hire but this dude is.

Just started. Not bad.

Man, Jennifer is looking rough. Check out the neck. oof.

She is 55. She looks incredible.

Foggy said:

She is 55. She looks incredible.

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Looks great for her age. She could eat a few cheeseburgers though. Don't get me wrong, I like skinny, but she's gone a bit overboard.

Anyway, loved the first season. Genuinely looking forward to this.

This show did not need another season. Calling it now, they should have stopped at one.

I don't see how you make a second season after that "infinite jasons but not infinite every other traveler" twist.

Retcon the ending and it could work, but I don't see how you multiverse retcon that away.

Guess I'll be tuning in to see how they handle it anyway. First season really was great.

Attog said:

This show did not need another season. Calling it now, they should have stopped at one.

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Well season 2 started off pretty hot so for now it would appear you are wrong.

I don't even see how you could say it does not need a season 2 when they left so many threads open - Abbie deciding to leave her shitty world, Leighton still hopping worlds looking for revenge, Ryan dumped unceremoniously in a foreign world and then at the end meeting up with Amanda who still had one vial of purple stuff left. Even the ending for Jason and family left it completely open to what world they were stepping into. On a larger level, the boxes all still exist and are presumably multiplying with new travelers.

I had very low expectations for a season going past the end of the source material, but I have to admit, the first episode was pretty good.