Published Jun 9, 2026, 12:05 PM EDT
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In the last few years, Apple TV has done more than enough to establish itself as one of the premiere homes for original sci-fi programming. Many fans first flocked to the platform for more wholesome hits like Ted Lasso (starring Jason Sudeikis), but it was more dystopian thrillers like Severance (starring Adam Scott) that got subscribers to re-up their deal and hang around for the long haul. Severance was the most-watched Apple TV show in platform history until last year brought on the arrival of Pluribus, which was written and created for TV by Breaking Bad scribe Vince Gilligan. Both Severance and Pluribus have been renewed for new seasons, but neither will return before the end of this year. There is another Apple TV sci-fi show you may have forgotten about that’s set to return for a new season sooner than you realize.
One of the most underrated Apple TV sci-fi endeavors to emerge in the last few years surely has to be Dark Matter, which is inspired by the novel of the same name by Blake Crouch. The show stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly in leading roles, and while the first season adapted the entirety of Crouch’s novel, Apple TV made the daring decision to renew the series for Season 2. Now two full years removed from Season 1, Apple TV has finally confirmed that Dark Matter Season 2 will begin streaming on August 28. Plot specifics about *Dark Matter *Season 2 are still being kept under wraps ahead of its late-summer premiere, but Apple TV has confirmed that it will feature Jason and Daniela trekking across the multiverse, where danger looms around every corner.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
The official synopsis for Dark Matter Season 1, which holds scores of 81% from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:
“A Chicago physics professor is violently abducted into an alternate reality — one where he chose ambition over family. Desperate to reclaim his true life, he navigates a mind-bending multiverse of roads not taken. But the greatest threat standing between him and the people he loves is the most dangerous enemy imaginable: another version of himself.”
While it’s certainly nerve-racking for fans to know that Dark Matter is going off record in Season 2, there is something assuring about author Blake Crouch being involved every step of the way. If there is a more interesting story to be told in the Dark Matter universe, it’s going to come from Crouch, no different than if he had an idea for a sequel novel.
Check out the first season of Dark Matter on Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
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Jakob Verbruggen, Alik Sakharov, Roxann Dawson, Logan George
A man is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could’ve lived, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from a most terrifying foe: himself.