Dark Matter season two is arriving soon, and Apple TV’s big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con gave fans a peek at what to expect. To go with that explosive teaser, the cast and creators took to the stage to lift the lid on the continuing adventures of reluctant multiverse traveler Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton).
Since season one adapted Blake Crouch’s book pretty closely, the author—who’s also the creator and showrunner of the series—no longer had previously written source material to draw upon. Speaking from the Hall H stage, it sounded like he relished the challenge. “Season one is based on the book, and we used every available moment and character beat we possibly could because we weren’t sure we would do another season,” Crouch said. “And 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’ve lost all of your friends; you’ve lost your whole world. All you have is your family, and that is where the Dessens begin in season two … The whole season is really about being alone and finding the people to embrace and help you get through life, and of course it’s bigger, it’s badder, it’s more emotional than season one, and I cannot wait for you all to see it.” At the end of season one, the Dessens—Jason, his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly), and their son Charlie (Oakes Fegley)—have 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 “Jason One” have retreated. For now.
