What if you had taken this route rather than another? For some time now, the multiverse has been at the heart of the cultural industry’s concerns. Everything Everywhere All At Once, Spider-Man into the Spider-verse Passing by The Flash, these alternative universes fascinate authors in Hollywood as elsewhere. Creative people try in turn to seize it, but not all meet with the same success. It must be said that the multiverse is a theory that is difficult to juggle with. Before you have time to realize it, the story can sink into a magma of confused narrative springs, obscure or worse incoherent. The creation of Apple TV+ wants to prove that it has what it takes to play this little game, that it is capable of exploring this bottomless pit.
Jason is a physics professor and father who leads a peaceful existence with his family. His life will be turned upside down when, after a drunken evening, he is kidnapped by a mysterious character. He will wake up in a strange world, where his loved ones have disappeared and where his life is different in every way. Jason has been propelled into an alternative reality to his own and discovers a life shaped by the choices of another. At the casting, Joel Edgerton offers himself a multiple score. He faces Jennifer Connelly, Alica Braga and Jimmi Simpson under the impulsion of Blake Crouch, author of the novel from which the series is inspired who acts as showrunner.
With ifs…
To the cataclysmic events that often accompany explorations of the multiverse, Dark Matter prefers the intimate story. In its first moments, Blake Crouch’s series focuses on portray monotonous life of a scientist once promised to great things while skillfully distilling clues about what the future holds for his heroes. If experienced spectators are not surprised by the turn things take – at least in the first episodes – Dark Matter manages to captivate thanks to the discovery of a concept of all possibilities. In line with Constellation, Dark Matter is an elegant work of science fiction that knows juggling physics and philosophy to bring his multiversal tale to life.
If the machine is slow to start, it will be necessary two episodes to get to the heart of the matter, she easily succeeds in deploying a labyrinthine plot in which we enjoy getting lost. The superposition of worlds theorized by Everett is an opportunity to question humans. What makes us who we are? What are the choices that determine our future? Between determinism and probabilism, is illustrated by careful writing.
Still, sometimes Dark Matter skims over its flesh-and-blood subjects a little too much to stand out as obvious. Series sometimes lacks heart, but beats that of science fiction fans. We readily forgive him, another version of us perhaps not. Another version of us undoubtedly missed out on this series which is not unworthy, she was wrong.
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After four episodes, it becomes clear that Dark Matter has a lot to offer. Its slow start hides a multitude of twists and turns that we can’t wait to discover. As Constellation, Silo or Severance, the latest addition to the Apple TV+ catalog knows how to make itself attractive. The platform proves once again that the demands it places on these productions (all original) pay off.
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