Dark Matter Will Return for More Multiverse Shenanigans

Good news for fans of Apple TV’s Dark Matter: it’s coming back for a second season.

The sci-fi drama was renewed over the weekend following the end of its debut season back in late June. Per AppleTV’s programming head Matt Cherniss, the show became “a global hit, capturing audiences’ imaginations and making it a beloved and integral part of Apple’s world class sci-fi line up. We are thrilled to continue our collaboration with Blake Crouch, our partners at Sony and the rest of the creative team and cast…on a new season that will captivate viewers with more twists and turns as we dive deeper into the mysteries of the multiverse.”

Blake Crouch, showrunner and author of the novel the show is based on, added that over the course of season one, the creative team found “there’s so much more story to tell. We’ve only scratched the surface of these characters as they fight for survival and to find their way home through a landscape of mind-bending realities. Thanks to everyone who tuned-in for season one…you were so good to us.”

Dark Matter stars Joel Egerton as Jason Dessen, a Chicago physicist who gets abducted by an alternate reality version of himself. While his doppelganger lives his counterpart’s life, Jason #01 goes about trying to find a way back home. Audiences have clearly taken a shine to it, and it’s another solid outing for the sci-fi part of AppleTV’s catalog; the press release name 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 release window for season two, but hopefully it isn’t too long before we see what the Jasons are up to next.

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