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- Science fiction
- Thriller
- Creators
- Blake Crouch
- Stars
- Joel Edgerton · Jennifer Connelly · Jimmi Simpson
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Dark Matter streams exclusively on Apple TV+ in the US. Season 2 is airing weekly, with new episodes landing Fridays through October 30, 2026.
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Seasons 2
Dark Matter episodes 19
Season 1 · 9 episodes · 9 aired · May 8, 2024 to Jun 26, 2024
S1.E1 ·
Are You Happy in Your Life?
Physics professor Jason Dessen has a good, quiet life in Chicago with his wife and son — right up until a masked man abducts him off the street and everything about his world stops adding up.
Directed by Jakob Verbruggen · Written by Blake Crouch
S1.E2 ·
Trip of a Lifetime
Disoriented and separated from his family, Jason discovers he's been mistaken for a famous, reclusive physicist, and starts digging for answers that only lead to stranger questions.
Directed by Jakob Verbruggen · Written by Blake Crouch
S1.E3 ·
The Box
Jason agrees to help the mysterious research team track down the man who vanished from his life, and uncovers what that man actually built — a device that can cross between realities.
Directed by Jakob Verbruggen · Written by Blake Crouch
S1.E4 ·
The Corridor
Stepping through the device with an ally, Jason finds himself in an endless corridor of doors, each one opening onto a different version of the same world, with no easy way to find his own.
Directed by Celine Held & Logan George · Written by Blake Crouch
S1.E5 ·
Worldless
A fellow traveler stranded in a dangerous reality warns Jason just how hard it is to navigate back home — and how much is lost trying.
Directed by Celine Held & Logan George · Written by Megan McDonnell
S1.E6 ·
Superposition
Back in Jason's house, the version of him who stayed behind starts making choices that don't feel like his, and the cracks in his family's new normal start to show.
Directed by Roxann Dawson · Written by Megan McDonnell
S1.E7 ·
In the Fires of Dead Stars
Suspicion closes in at home as a detective starts asking questions, forcing a reckoning about what's really been going on inside the Dessen household.
Directed by Roxann Dawson · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S1.E8 ·
Jupiter
The danger stops being theoretical when another version of Jason turns violent, and the race to figure out who can be trusted becomes a matter of survival.
Directed by Alik Sakharov · Written by Ihuoma Ofordire and Megan McDonnell
S1.E9 ·
Entanglement
With versions of himself converging on the same life, Jason's family has to make an impossible choice about which one of him gets to stay.
Directed by Alik Sakharov · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
Season 2 · 10 episodes · 8 aired · Aug 28, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026
S2.E1 ·
A Quiet Life
Months after settling into a new reality, the Dessens' fragile peace is interrupted by a visitor neither of them expected to see again.
Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E2 ·
A Perfect World
A flashback to the lab's earliest days reveals the optimism behind building the box in the first place — and the warning that got overruled to do it.
Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E3 ·
Everything Beautiful, Everything Terrible
Another flashback digs into what Jason2 was told would happen if the door to infinite realities ever got opened for good.
Directed by Charlotte Sieling · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E4 ·
Stars, Hide Your Fires
An old ally resurfaces in the Dessens' adopted world, forcing Jason to decide whether staying put is still an option.
Directed by Charlotte Sieling · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E5 ·
Love and Be Loved
One of the Jasons left behind after the family's escape goes looking for a version of his life worth living — and finds one that costs him something unexpected.
Directed by Alik Sakharov · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E6 ·
What the Universe Is Made Of
Daniela retreats to familiar ground to steady herself, only for the multiverse she's been trying to leave behind to follow her there.
Directed by Amit Gupta · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E7 ·
The Pyramid
In another version of the world, Ryan and Amanda get caught up in a danger that isn't theirs, and their only way out runs straight back through the box.
Directed by Amit Gupta · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E8 ·
The Basic Oneness of Everything
The Dessens' search for a way out of the mess the box created pushes further into the multiverse, with the cost of every choice they've made starting to catch up to them.
Directed by Guillermo Navarro · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E9 · · Up next · Projected date
How to Build the Box
Directed by Nick Murphy · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
S2.E10 · · Projected date
No Quiet Life
Directed by Nick Murphy · Written by Blake Crouch & Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry
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The multiverse show that is actually about one marriage
Dark Matter’s premise sounds like a thriller and plays like a character study. Jason Dessen gets abducted into a version of his own life where he made the ambitious choice instead of the stable one, and the show’s real question is not whether he gets home, it is whether the version of him who stayed home was ever as content as he looked. Joel Edgerton plays at least two versions of the same man across the season and makes them legibly different people without ever resorting to a costume change or a accent. Jennifer Connelly’s Daniela is doing just as much work on the other side of the mystery, noticing that the husband who came home is not quite the one who left.
Season 1 is a self-contained mystery box, and it closes most of its own questions by the finale. Season 2, airing weekly through October 30, 2026, picks up with the Dessens trying to build a quiet life in a world that is not originally theirs, which turns out to be its own kind of impossible once the box itself starts getting used by people they cannot control. It is a slower, more unsettled season than the first, more interested in the cost of the choice Jason already made than in finding a new one.
Based on Blake Crouch’s novel of the same name, with Crouch himself running the writers’ room. The production record has the full episode history. If you want another high-concept sci-fi show that trusts its actors to carry an identity question instead of an effects budget, our Severance guide is the closest thing on our shelf, and for a bigger-scale multiverse-adjacent swing our Foundation guide covers the other end of that spectrum.
Dark Matter cast 6
Joel EdgertonJason Dessen
Jennifer ConnellyDaniela Dessen, Jason's wife
Jimmi SimpsonRyan Holder, Jason's closest friend- Dayo OkeniyiLeighton Vance, CEO of Velocity Labs
Oakes FegleyCharlie Dessen, Jason and Daniela's son
Amanda BrugelBlair Caplan
- Creator
- Blake Crouch
- Writer
- Blake Crouch, Megan McDonnell
- Music
- Jason Hill
- Studios
- Sony Pictures Television
Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Joel Edgerton: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0; Jennifer Connelly: Karon Liu at https://www.flickr.com/people/32153970@N07, CC BY 2.0; Jimmi Simpson: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0; Oakes Fegley: GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0; Amanda Brugel: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I watch Dark Matter?
Dark Matter streams on Apple TV in the US (subscription), checked October 16, 2026.
How many episodes of Dark Matter are there?
19 episodes across 2 seasons: season 1 has 9, season 2 has 10.
When did Dark Matter premiere?
May 8, 2024.
When is the next episode of Dark Matter?
Episode 9, “How to Build the Box”, is projected for October 23, 2026 (17 of 19 episodes have aired).
