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Joel Edgerton must escape the multiverse in a gripping sci-fi series

Blake Crouch's riveting Dark Matter sees physics professor Jason wanting out of the multiverse, after being kidnapped and dumped there by another version of himself

By Josh Bell

2 May 2024

Episode 3. Joel Edgerton in

Jason (Joel Edgerton) inside a huge device that puts people in a state of quantum uncertainty

Sandy Morris/Apple TV+

Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Apple TV+ from 8 May

EVERYONE knows about the multiverse now. Thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and popular movies like Everything Everywhere All At Once, the idea of infinite parallel worlds adjacent to ours is somewhat commonplace. So it isn’t a mind-blowing reveal in the new TV show Dark Matter when protagonist Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) finds that he has been transported into an alternate dimension where another version of himself lived a different life.

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