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Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly Keep Overly Elaborate Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Dark Matter’ From Collapsing in on Itself: TV Review


Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly keep Apple TV+ "Dark Matter" from crumbling even when the weight of the twisted sci-fi series gets heavy.

Jason Dessen ( Joel Edgerton), a scruffy physics professor, is living an unremarkable but happy middle-class existence with his wife, Daniela ( Jennifer Connelly), and their teenage son, Charlie (Oakes Fegley). Unfortunately, getting back to the life he’s always known proves to be more mentally and physically taxing than he initially thought, especially because Leighton (Dayo Okeniyi), the billionaire techie Jason2 works for, isn’t too keen to let his prized scientist out of his grasp. Since sci-fi and physics jargon aren’t exactly digestible for the average viewer, the audience is repeatedly shown the inner workings of The Box, which involves an injectable drug called ampoules, a terrifying and twisted corridor and the would-be multiverse-traveler trying to have total control over his subconscious.

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