Apple TV Plus confirms Dark Matter is returning for season 2 and I can’t wait for my favorite sci-fi show to transport me to another reality

“In this reality, there will be a second season”

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We think thatDark Matteris one ofthe best Apple TV Plus shows, and it looks likeAppleagrees: it’s just greenlit the show for a second season. In a fun post onX, Apple TV Plus posted the teaser image below and said “in this reality, there will be a second season ofDark Matter”.

If you haven’t seen the show you might not get the joke:Dark Matteris about alternate realities. It follows Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) as his existing life is stripped away and he has to fight to get it back. Like my favorite sci-fi shows, it’s dark, complicated and occasionally mind-bending – it’s also smarter than your average multiverse adventure.

Is Dark Matter worth streaming?

Based on the novel by Blake Crouch, who was head writer and showrunner on the show,Dark Matteris currently sitting with 83% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and viewers.

Many people love it as one their favorite sci-fi shows, but some argue that it’s perhaps a little overstretched to fill the first season’s nine episodes. Nevertheless there’s a lot to like here.The Wall Street Journalsaid that “there is a high level of suspense, tangible tension created by Jason’s dilemmas and by the action-thriller aspects ofDark Matter, and that the acting is first-rate”, whileThe Agesaid “It’s hard to conceive of a better showcase for Edgerton, a fine actor who is rarely ostentatious.” (Don’t read the rest of that one if you don’t want some mild spoilers.)

Empiresaid that it’s “not as ambitious asFoundation, nor as brain-taxing asConstellation,” but it “hits the spot nonetheless, maintainingApple’s status as the default home of thoughtful, adult-orientated sci-fi”.

However, not all critics were so favorable.IndieWiresaid that “its unflagging gloom and one-note characters limit its capacity to shake anything loose within the audience,” whileCNNsaid that “the main problem, which nags at this entire subgenre of science fiction, is the sense that nothing really matters, since every new door/chapter feels as if it’s just a step away from being rewritten or undone.”

You can find out for yourself: in this reality, season one ofDark Matteris available to stream on Apple TV Plus.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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