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2024 / Multiverse science-fiction thriller / Adapted by Blake Crouch
A physicist faces the lives he might have chosen.
What is Dark Matter about?
Chicago physicist and family man Jason Dessen is taken into an alternate version of his own life. Trying to return to the people he knows, he encounters the frightening distance between a familiar identity and the different realities his choices might have produced.
Five things to know.
The starting situation
Jason’s experience starts from a recognizable family life, making the alternate world disturbing because it resembles a future that could have been his.
The world around it
The science-fiction premise uses parallel realities to turn ordinary questions about career, family and regret into a concrete and dangerous situation.
The central pressure
Jason wants to return home, but recognizing the people and circumstances that belong to his life becomes harder when other possibilities appear equally tangible.
The creative approach
Blake Crouch adapts his own novel for television, with Joel Edgerton playing Jason and Jennifer Connelly among the principal performers.
Before episode one
The series treats the multiverse as a dramatic premise, with the focus on identity and family rather than a factual explanation of quantum theory.
A thought to take with you.
Jason’s predicament makes a familiar regret feel physical: the idea that another choice could have produced another self. The emotional question is what makes one version of a life worth returning to.
Is it your kind of series?
Try it for a science-fiction thriller grounded in family and identity. Expect alternate realities and a personal search rather than a physics lesson.
Three ideas to take with you.
- A possible life is not automatically a better one.
- Belonging involves relationships as well as circumstances.
- A choice gains meaning through the life that follows it.
Before you press play.
What is Dark Matter about?
Chicago physicist and family man Jason Dessen is taken into an alternate version of his own life. Trying to return to the people he knows, he encounters the frightening distance between a familiar identity and the different realities his choices might have produced.
Who is behind Dark Matter?
Adapted by Blake Crouch. Blake Crouch adapts his own novel for television, with Joel Edgerton playing Jason and Jennifer Connelly among the principal performers.
What kind of series is Dark Matter?
Multiverse science-fiction thriller. Try it for a science-fiction thriller grounded in family and identity. Expect alternate realities and a personal search rather than a physics lesson.
Sources & scope
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