Dark Matter | Official Trailer | Apple TV+ | May 8 | Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga
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Agree/Disagree here, I think the trailer is showing a damn lot out of a book that is less than 350 pages.
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I know im late to responding here, but 100% agree that they showed way to much... Even the poster is crazy spoilery.
I'm not sure what that clip is doing that's supposed to entice me to watch a sci-fi show. Reviews are great so far though, so when all the episodes are up I'll give it a shot.
Not bad at all. Like a standard thriller. I don't remember anything in the book that is like that either.
Caught the first 2 eps, really digging it so far.
The little Nintendo Switch *SNAP* noise they do when it switches universes is a little goofy but that's just a nitpick on my part. I'm more invested here than another recent Apple TV+ show that tried a similar concept. The pacing is very breezy. They got to the good stuff by the end of Episode 1 and characters are figuring things out by the end of Ep 2. Cliffhanger for Ep 2 has me so mad lol. I need more
The little Nintendo Switch *SNAP* noise they do when it switches universes is a little goofy but that's just a nitpick on my part. I'm more invested here than another recent Apple TV+ show that tried a similar concept. The pacing is very breezy. They got to the good stuff by the end of Episode 1 and characters are figuring things out by the end of Ep 2. Cliffhanger for Ep 2 has me so mad lol. I need more
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Wow first 2 episodes were really entertaining. Watched the preview for the rest of the season after the end of Episode 2 and think it maybe answered my question of whether the story would just focus on these 2 worlds, as it sounds like there's a lot of multiverse shenanigans coming up.
Haven't read the book so not sure what to expect beyond that, but definitely a promising start. One of those shows I could see myself binging through in a few days if they weren't releasing weekly lol.
Haven't read the book so not sure what to expect beyond that, but definitely a promising start. One of those shows I could see myself binging through in a few days if they weren't releasing weekly lol.
First episode didn't grip me at all. I feel like I have seen this story told many times before and honestly everything felt quite generic.
Execution was good, just too much of a sense of "been there, done that" for me to enjoy it.
I'll give episode 2 a chance just to see if things get more interesting or unique or head off in a direction I'm not expecting.
Execution was good, just too much of a sense of "been there, done that" for me to enjoy it.
I'll give episode 2 a chance just to see if things get more interesting or unique or head off in a direction I'm not expecting.
I will say, having read the book I had the exact same impression for the first few chapters and then stuff gets very rapidly much much weirder. Blake Crouch tends to have these very obvious three act structures to his novels (at least the ones I've read) where the story makes these discrete jumps into bigger and bigger scales. If they stay book faithful the last couple episodes of this are going to be nuts.
You haven't even started to conceptualize where the story will go. I won't say more than that. You're in for a good ride if you enjoy it so far.
Far better than uhh whatever that other show they had going at the same time. Killjoys I think.
Android too good, great characters.
I thought the first 2/3rds was lame af with the last 1/3rd veering into insane stephen king territory
The trailer at the end of the second episode (past all the translation credits, don't miss it!) bears out the craziness. The first 2 episodes are fairly pedestrian but this certainly seems like it's gonna go places.
Errr I know all pseudo science is just to get to the premise, but it was hard to forgive some holes in episode 3:
How Leighton didn't know about the drug or how the box works, how the box can work with two people inside it (two cats), how the previous people would injected himself with the drug if they were wearing hazmat suits
Unsure about this show so far but the 3rd episode was enjoyable - but I really need to turn my brain off. The writing is functional but what characters say vs what they mean does take me out of the experience more often than I would like:
I understand for Leighton that the return journey is the part he doesn't understand, but the character and dialogue is written that he doesn't understand how any of it works - making us take him look more like an idiot than a threat. Ryan is implied to be working on the drug in secret with just Jason2, but it's actually with all of Velocity - but because of Jason2s story it comes across that this is all part of his master plan. If the show had spent of its time demonstrating who Leighton is outside of the coverup we might have better understood what Jason is up against. Looks like we are permanently moving on from this world which begs the question - If Leighton and Velocity are not very consequential to the overall plot - then why spend over 2 full episodes with them?
SAME. My SO asked if they had to pay Nintendo for that, lol.
Every time, lol
Thanks for better write what I tried to say in my last post.
how come the drug is a secret and at the same time a requirement for the dimension traveling (since 3 other people aside from Jason2 did travel, and 2 after him)?
Also, for book readers, is it clarified
how Jason2 was able to navegate between his world and Jason1´s world back and forth? I thought that the premisse was that once you enter an infinite possibility of worlds, you are pretty much lost, no way to find back your original world. Jason2 not only find an specific world (where he is married with kid, his bigger regret) - ok, that could take time but is possible) but go back to his original world to drop Jason1 there, and back again to Jason1´s world. It would be much easier (and believable) if he just killed Jason1 and took his place (but not so much an interesting story).
First 2 episodes were fine, but something seemed off - not sure if it was the writing, or acting or maybe both. Don't know that I love the main guy. I'll check out the 3rd.
The main character in this is pretty stupid. So much of this so far has been dragging the setup out.
I'm on board but man, parts of these episodes feels like somebody pulling teeth in that the main character is the last to figure things out and also too idiotic to play along.
There's also this woman going around and shooting at anything that moves. Her backstory has to be that she's fucking Leighton as she's way too unstable to be kept around.
I'm on board but man, parts of these episodes feels like somebody pulling teeth in that the main character is the last to figure things out and also too idiotic to play along.
There's also this woman going around and shooting at anything that moves. Her backstory has to be that she's fucking Leighton as she's way too unstable to be kept around.
Jason1 going to the bar was painful in that second episode. For a physics teacher in a world where multiverse is a strong theory and he is seemingly wanting to create a travel method for it. The fact that he doesn't pick up on the possibility that it actually exists and possibly other versions have figured it out, even when he was in the recovery unit, or even asked more questions about how they knew him and why they think he was gone for 14 months made me want to smack my head against a brick wall. I didn't even take any physics courses in college, my main knowledge of multiverse and string theory comes from TV shows like Nova or specials where physicists talk about it, or reading books available at Barnes and Noble on the subject and I would have guessed I was in a different universe. But, I know if that all actually happened the show would be basically done and there would be no real stakes anymore.
Yea that was extremely painful to watch. Considering he worked on a prototype of this when he was younger, that should have been his first thought even in a somewhat joking manner. Like "no way im in a different universe hahaha" and instead it's dragged out for 40 minutes.
Well, it is important to notice that he is the Jason that quit. While he should be well versed in physics, and understand the fundamentals of justapositions, one thing is to believe in something theorically possible, another is to see that thing happening. Plus he only worked with particles, his version of him never occured to use the same principles in a whole person. That was Jason2, the one that really believed in his theories and did quite the research, because that research was the most important thing in the world for him (even most important than love and family). So yeah, those parts drag a little (mainly for the audience to catch on) but it may be beliveable that Jason1 needed time to fully grasp what was going on. Even further, to grasp the concept if there is a multiverse, there will be versions of him that succeeded in his reasearch, and that there will be versions of him that resent giving up love and family, and most important, there will be versions of him that would act to correct that (in the way Jason2 did)
Id watch the show for Connelly alone. Major crush on her since i was a teenager.. she is such an elegant lady.
The story is interesting so far, as someone else said it's no Silo, buts it's decent.
The story is interesting so far, as someone else said it's no Silo, buts it's decent.
I think I read Recursion too close to it, because it felt like the author had a... type for his MCs that became less relevant in the back 1/3rd of Dark Matter at least.