Dark Matter Season 2 Delivers More Confusion, Now With Multiverse Kidnapping
KEY POINTS
- •Dark Matter season 2 returned on Apple TV with a multiverse storyline involving self-kidnapping.
- •The show's cast and crew have admitted having trouble following the increasingly complex plot.
- •Critics say the series is more dramatic yet remains extremely confusing, a hallmark of mystery box shows.
Apple TV's Dark Matter season 2 doubles down on perplexing sci-fi drama by kidnapping alternate universe selves, leaving viewers and the cast equally baffled. Despite the show's multiverse chaos — a man snatching another him across realities — Apple TV offers 'dramatic and thrilling' episodes that spiral deeper into confounding mystery boxes. Critics note even the crew struggles to track the plot, which started in season 1 and only got knottier. With commentary that confusion is a 'generally accepted side effect' of shows swimming in secrets, Dark Matter proudly wears its inscrutability like a badge. After all, who wouldn't want to binge TV making you question your grasp on reality while also dreaming of stealing your own identity?
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(1 of 3)When your sci-fi show’s main plot is ‘kidnap yourself from the multiverse’ and even actors quit grasping it, congratulations you nailed baffling storytelling.
Dark Matter season 2 makes parentheses jealous, because even the cast forgets what’s inside the show’s plot twists.
Apple TV’s Dark Matter: the only show where the script writes itself—and then promptly forgets the story.
Source: Theverge | Published: 8/28/2026 | Author: Andrew Webster
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