Darkish Matter Will Return for Extra Multiverse Shenanigans

Excellent news for followers of Apple TV’s Dark Matter: it’s coming again for a second season.

The sci-fi drama was renewed over the weekend following the tip of its debut season again in late June. Per AppleTV’s programming head Matt Cherniss, the present turned “a world hit, capturing audiences’ imaginations and making it a beloved and integral a part of Apple’s world class sci-fi line up. We’re thrilled to proceed our collaboration with Blake Crouch, our companions at Sony and the remainder of the artistic crew and forged…on a brand new season that can captivate viewers with extra twists and turns as we dive deeper into the mysteries of the multiverse.”

Blake Crouch, showrunner and creator of the novel the present relies on, added that over the course of season one, the artistic crew discovered “there’s a lot extra story to inform. We’ve solely scratched the floor of those characters as they combat for survival and to seek out their method dwelling by way of a panorama of mind-bending realities. Due to everybody who tuned-in for season one…you had been so good to us.”

Darkish Matter stars Joel Egerton as Jason Dessen, a Chicago physicist who will get kidnapped by an alternate actuality model of himself. Whereas his doppelganger lives his counterpart’s life, Jason #01 goes about looking for a method again dwelling. Audiences have clearly taken a shine to it, and it’s one other stable outing for the sci-fi a part of AppleTV’s catalog; the press launch identify checks it alongside the upcoming seasons of Silo and Severance, plus the likes of For All Mankind and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Apple didn’t give a launch window for season two, however hopefully it isn’t too lengthy earlier than we see what the Jasons are as much as subsequent.

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