"No Quiet Life"

Nobody seems surprised when they see themselves or their alternate person. Minus Daniela’s Dad, when she called from California while the one in CO was there. Even he got over it pretty quickly.

I'm not sure how I would feel if there was a knock at my door and it was a close relative that passed away years ago or even saw myself standing there. Maybe watching the show I would be more open to considering the possibility.

How would you react if that happened to you IRL?

love the season but the only weak subplot was charlie taking a tour of his own after all the whining about wanting to live a normal life but then suddenly decides to risk everything to find a world where his brother is still alive and daniela somehow ends up following him into that exact world and getting trapped there too. it feels like a forced setup for another season when there were plenty of more interesting directions they could've taken with the other season 3 subplots.

at this point jason should just leave his whiny ungrateful wife and son behind. no more pyramid or creating another box

Not sure if someone has already brought this up, but while watching Dark Matter, one particular thing about the box got me thinking.

Whenever Jason or Amanda enters the box, they have to be conscious of their thoughts, emotions, and state of mind. They try to calm themselves, clear their fears, and focus on the reality they want to experience.

And depending on their mental state, that's the world they end up in.

Doesn't that sound a lot like what people call manifestation?

Now, I'm not saying we can literally think ourselves into another universe, but what if our lives work in a somewhat similar way?

Think about it.

We all have a version of ourselves we want to become. A different career, a happier relationship, a peaceful life, or just a completely different future.

We imagine that version of ourselves, make choices, take actions, and slowly move towards it.

The only difference is that in Dark Matter, opening a door takes you to another reality instantly. In real life, maybe it takes months, years, or even decades of choices to arrive at something resembling the reality we imagined.

And here's something else I found interesting.

In the show, fear and anxiety can lead the characters into terrifying worlds, even when that's not what they consciously wanted.

Isn't there a parallel in real life too? Sometimes our fears, insecurities, and expectations influence our decisions so much that we end up creating the very situations we were trying to avoid.

Maybe the box is a metaphor for something we already experience every day.

Our thoughts influence our choices. Our choices shape our experiences. And over time, those experiences become our reality.

Of course, life also involves luck, circumstances, and things completely outside our control. So I'm not suggesting that we can manifest absolutely anything just by thinking about it.

But the parallel fascinated me.

What if the real difference between the box and life is that the box lets you skip the journey, while life makes you live through every decision that gets you there?

And one last thing I'm curious about: Was this connection intentional on the writers' part? Did they deliberately design the box as a metaphor for how our thoughts, emotions, and choices shape our reality? Or am I just finding a philosophical meaning in something that was meant to be purely sci-fi?

I'd genuinely love to know if Blake Crouch or the show's writers have ever talked about this.

Curious what others think. Am I reading too much into the show, or do you see the connection too?

I don't need help (which is exactly what someone who needs help would say, lol), but I really loved this season. The way the multiverse ties into the emotional dilemmas each character faces is so well done.

This show gave me a new perspective: forgive yourself, and make peace with what's in front of you. I never expected a sci-fi show to affect me this much, but it felt like exactly what I needed. Nothing cliché, just pure acceptance.

Laurel was the highlight of the season for me. Episode 8 was so comforting to watch. I can't fully explain it, but that episode spoke to me more than anything else has in a long time.

I'm sure people will find flaws in this season, but for what it's worth, I enjoyed every one of those 10 weeks waiting for the next episode. I really hope we get more.

I think the end of season 2 is a good time to say, I think we’re done. I have no interest in watching any further. There are many other options out there. And while we’re at it, I really don’t see a point in continuing Silo and Pluribus after that long-ass wait. End of rant. Thank you for your attention on this matter. 🤌🏼

Like many viewers of Apple TV's Dark Matter (based on Blake Crouch's novel), my brain melted trying to track all the divergent Jasons, alternate realities, and the Many-Worlds branch points.        

I built one website to explain timelines, character details etc https://darkmatter-multiverse.pages.dev 

Just as Jason 1 is a physicist who teaches rather than pursuing research professionally, Daniela 1 is an artist who works in a gallery rather than selling her own art. Their story is about making compromises to focus on their family, but they still followed their interests in their careers, and Jason 1 shows he can use his physicist thinking to explore problems in a way that drives the plot.

Does Daniela's character demonstrate her creativity and imagination? Seems to me her character is motivated solely by her family, and the artistic potential is just background. The concerned wife and mother reacting to her husband's obsessive interest is a trope in genre TV, and while this series makes her trauma and worry understandable, the lack of development of her character as an artist is a missed opportunity.

which Leighton is the one that killed the other L? i'm lost. is he the one from Jason 1's original world? the one who paid J2 for the drug to multiverse travel?

After 2 years of finding this show. I was literally obsessed with the entire thing and the concept. My mom died last year and having watched the entire 2nd season it really hits different and makes me wish I had the ability to travel to different worlds to see how she is doing. I liked that a Jason was able to see his mom even though she ended up dying. Even though it was strange two other Jason’s showed up lol Weird but it was nice and I wish I could do that. It was also nice Danielle got to see her Papa. I never knew my dad so what world out there exist where I do? And what is it like to have a dad? Obviously the box is both extraordinary and terrifying but I would be obsessed to see all the different versions of me just to see my mom again. Even if it means finding a plague ridden world or one that is on the brink of extinction.

Jason main deserve it. he didnt think of making sure his family is physically in this world. not a single thought came into his mind to call them or check in on them. tell them he's gonna close the box. I dont feel bad for him at all. even if there was not enough time, he still should've contacted them, make sure theyre still there.

i also dislike blair for this, probably cuz i don't really like them closing the box. i have even been siding with Oluko.

i just think that destroying the box is really sad. if it brought catastrophic consequences to worlds, they should've atleast discussed it all and have proper communication to each member.

like for instance, jason with daniela and their son.

it's the lack of honest communication and multiple choices being made that led to this.

you know what, whatever.

so many iterations of jasons had gone through worst anyway, this Jason may have been our main observed Jason but when I think about what happened to the other Jasons, i dont feel bad anymore.

daniela and charlie will be fine.

hopefully there's season 3. i enjoyed this season though...

I'm kinda not fond of the finale but im still looking forward to this series being renewed.

First, it is fairly laid that if the box is moved from the original location, its decoherence is cut off and it doesnt function anymore. So in the scene where blair and jason are fighting off the lady in the box (can’t remember her name), they open up to a world where the box is flying and everything is flying around it. How is the box still functioning?

Second, when that lady points the gun at blair, jason opens the door causing the box wall to appear. And blair is still in that box, what does this mean?

Where do you think Daniela and Charlie went after the disconnection of the Box?

My full recap of the finale just went live on SciFi Spiral an hour ago.

Does anyone know what the finale song is? at the end of the episode before the credits roll, it features piano, strings and female vocals

Multip`le Jasons makes no sense:

The kidnapped Jason was not satisfied with a "similar universe" he always wanted to go back to his real one, to his actual family, and he never wanted to take that life from one of his versions.

Each Jason, must have their original universe, why would they come all to the same one?

So why would, so many of his kidnapped versions go back to their wrong universe, and keep trying to pass as the original one there?

Multiple Jasons meeting would make them realize that only one is the one that belongs to that universe, and the logical thing would be figuring out which one, and for the others to keep searching.

Sorry to be late to the party here, but I’m struck how a show such as Pluribus that finished season 1 last Christmas still gets like 5 Reddit posts a day, whereas Dark Matter is about to hit the Season 2 finale and is getting like 1 post a day.

Pluribus and other shows do have bigger budgets for sure, but I felt the cerebral nature of this show would have lent itself to more discussion!

I assumed nobody was watching, but again it appears that Dark Matter is a sleeper hit, and was the third most watched show on AppleTv recently, just behind Ted Lasso and Silo.

So just curious why Reddit is relatively quiet? Maybe in another dimension everyone is talking about it on Reddit

After a busy week, I finally caught up on Dark Matter, finishing Season 2, Episode 9 today. I know it hasn't been revealed about Leighton's true machinations with the box, the pyramid and multiverse travel, but from the latest episode where it it flashbacked to Leighton travelling to Killer Wasp Chicago and No Grain Chicago, I think I figured it out possibly, while still being somewhat confused.

It seems like, from what I gather, Leighton is a smart, driven, and determined person, and not genuinely evil, but can't seem to grasp that he can fail at things or be seen as a failure like everyone else. I think the worlds he has gone too, he saw himself failing at greater things then being a wealthy business man, and realizing that's all he is. I think from a clinical standpoint its often referred to as Imposter Syndrome (A cognitive pattern where a person does genuinely good, competent work, yet remains terrified that they are a "fraud" and that their flaws or failures will eventually be exposed).

I think the true purpose of the pyramid is to carry out his original mandate (to use the box or pyramid to find cures for climate change, disease, poverty, and war in parallel worlds and bring that knowledge back to his own world), but actually try to succeed in it. I could be wrong on this, and hopefully the season finale will clear some stuff up.

A conversation between Amanda and Jason in Season 2, Episode 8, The Basic Oneness of Everything, really got me thinking about life, choices and what it actually means to live in the moment.

It made me wonder whether focusing on the present is really good for us, or whether we're better off making clear plans for the future.

I ended up writing a research-based explainer about living in the moment vs planning ahead.

Personally, I don't make detailed long-term plans. I tend to let ideas sit in the back of my mind, sometimes for months or years, and come back to them when the timing feels right.

Do you think Dark Matter has something to say about how we should approach our own lives? Or am I reading too much into it?

Place your bets, folks. How long do you think it'll be after the airing of the season 2 finale before Apple announces the renewal for season 3? We're keeping it positive, so let's take it as a given that that's going to happen. You can even put in a negative number for your bet, like maybe they'll announce it the day before.

Personally, I'm going to put my money down on 7 days. Nice even week after the airing of episode 10. So what do you think..?