Dark Matter | |
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Created by | Blake Crouch |
Based on | Dark Matter by Blake Crouch |
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Theme music composer | Jason Hill |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 2 |
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Cinematography | John Lindley Jeffrey Greeley |
Running time | 46–53 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | Apple TV+ |
Release | May 7, 2024 – present |
Dark Matter is an American science fiction television series created by Blake Crouch, based on his 2016 novel of the same name. It premiered on Apple TV+ on May 8, 2024, with two episodes. [1]
A physicist in Chicago, USA is warped into an alternate version of his life, leaving him to fight to return to his life to prevent the alternate version of himself from harming his family.
No. | Title [2] | Directed by [3] | Teleplay by [2] | Original release date [4] |
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1 | "Are You Happy in Your Life?" | Jakob Verbruggen | Blake Crouch | May 8, 2024 |
2 | "Trip of a Lifetime" | Jakob Verbruggen | Blake Crouch | May 8, 2024 |
3 | "The Box" | Jakob Verbruggen | Blake Crouch | May 15, 2024 |
4 | "The Corridor" | TBA | Blake Crouch | May 22, 2024 |
5 | "Dark Velocity" | TBA | Megan McDonnell | May 29, 2024 |
6 | "Fucking Married People" | TBA | Megan McDonnell | June 5, 2024 |
7 | "In the Fires of Dead Stars" | TBA | Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry | June 12, 2024 |
8 | "Jupiter" | TBA | Ihuoma Ofordire and Megan McDonnell | June 19, 2024 |
9 | "Entanglement [5] " | TBA | TBA | June 26, 2024 |
Logan George & Celine Held, Alik Sakharov, and Roxann Dawson directed episodes. [6]
It was first announced in December 2020 that Apple TV+ had entered into development of a series adaptation of Blake Crouch's novel, with Crouch set to write and act as showrunner. [7] The series was officially greenlit in March 2022, with Apple ordering 9 episodes and Joel Edgerton cast to star. Louis Leterrier was set to direct the first four episodes. [8] By September 2022, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Oakes Fegley and Dayo Okeniyi joined the cast. [9] [10] [11] In December, Amanda Brugel would join the cast in a recurring role. [3]
Production began in Chicago on October 4, 2022, and was expected to wrap by April 2023. [12]
Apple TV announced that the series will premiere on May 8, 2024. [13]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 78% approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10, based on 41 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Dark Matter's intriguing ideas are spread a tad thin over its season-long runtime, but fans of foreboding sci-fi will find its residue addictively sticky." [14] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 63 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [15]
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