{"id":827842,"date":"2026-07-26T20:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827842\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:35:19","slug":"dark-matter-season-2-is-bigger-badder-and-more-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827842\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dark Matter’ Season 2 Is ‘Bigger, Badder, and More Emotional’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dark Matter<\/a> season two<\/a> is arriving soon, and Apple TV\u2019s big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con gave fans a peek at what to expect. To go with that explosive teaser<\/a>, the cast and creators took to the stage to lift the lid on the continuing adventures of reluctant multiverse traveler Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton).<\/p>\n

Since season one adapted Blake Crouch\u2019s book pretty closely, the author\u2014who\u2019s also the creator and showrunner of the series\u2014no longer had previously written source material to draw upon. Speaking from the Hall H stage, it sounded like he relished the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeason one is based on the book, and we used every available moment and character beat we possibly could because we weren\u2019t sure we would do another season,\u201d Crouch said. \u201cAnd when it came time to look at that blank page [for season two], it was like an endless corridor of doors, and some of them might be bad; some of them could be awesome. It was our job to figure out how to try to level up what we had done. Imagine your home has been taken away [and] your job has been taken away. You\u2019ve lost all of your friends; you\u2019ve lost your whole world. All you have is your family, and that is where the Dessens begin in season two \u2026 The whole season is really about being alone and finding the people to embrace and help you get through life, and of course it\u2019s bigger, it\u2019s badder, it\u2019s more emotional than season one, and I cannot wait for you all to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of season one, the Dessens\u2014Jason, his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly), and their son Charlie (Oakes Fegley)\u2014have finally arrived in the same universe. The Jason variants who used the Box, an invention that enables travel between dimensions, with the intention of stealing the life of \u201cJason One\u201d have retreated. For now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter everything that happened in season one, [they\u2019re trying to] find some sense of normalcy,\u201d Edgerton said. \u201cAnd in the spirit of the themes of the show, [there\u2019s] the sense that you can\u2019t really go back and have a do-over. You\u2019ve got to acknowledge [and] absorb what\u2019s come before \u2026 then there\u2019s a sense of defining what is home, because they\u2019re going to find a place to live, and that is a question of is family home or is a place home, or what is home for you? So that\u2019s kind of where we start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Connelly, \u201cI think when we first see them again, they\u2019re trying to have a simple life and a quiet life. And something happens pretty quickly that spoils that plan. So then they\u2019re left kind of reeling and trying to find a place where they can rebuild and take stock of who they\u2019ve become because of all of this\u2014and because of the very existence of the Box and what it means. And how can they be together as a couple, how can they be in this marriage if they don\u2019t really even know who they are anymore? So that\u2019s where we meet them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Tolmach, an executive producer on Dark Matter, said the Dessens will have to make some difficult decisions as season two progresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what happens in season two is they\u2019re faced with every choice,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat happens when choices are unlimited? Who do you become? The choices you make define you. I remember watching the end of the first season and literally thinking just as an audience member, now what? \u2026 Now that you know that you can go anywhere and do anything, who do you become? What is your life? What are the choices you\u2019re going to make now? And that was such a daunting and amazing challenge for the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll find out more about what choices they make when Dark Matter returns August 28 to Apple TV.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dark Matter season two is arriving soon, and Apple TV\u2019s big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15915,49,48,826,75,20464,348],"class_list":["post-827842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dark-matter","tag-entertainment","tag-san-diego-comic-con","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}