This is the science fiction series you can watch without a subscription on Apple TV+: an addictive and intriguing thriller
The platform allows access without paying a subscription to one of its best series on air.
20 June, 2024 13:09In addition to having taken a look at the big premieres of the month on platforms, the biggest science fiction fans will also have dedicated some time to Dark Matter, one of the most recent proposals from Apple TV+. And for those who have not been able to watch it yet, the platform has offered them an opportunity they won't be able to refuse.
For a limited time, Apple TV+ users will be able to access the series completely for free. The only requirement will be to be registered on the platform and log in with our username and password. Once inside, you will be able to enjoy the first episode of the fiction without the need to pay for a subscription.
Starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, Dark Matter is a series based on the novel by Blake Crouch, who also writes and serves as showrunner. In it, we follow a physics professor Jason Dessen (Edgerton) who is kidnapped one day on his way home.
'Materia oscura'
A masked man blindfolds him and asks him: "Are you happy with your life? Have you ever wondered who else you could have been?". And this is the starting point of an intriguing series that includes parallel universes and unpredictable plot twists, those that leave you on the edge of your seat and wanting to play the next episode.
Apparently, the man who kidnapped him while hiding his identity is a version of the protagonist in a parallel world, an award-winning scientist who, among his achievements, has invented a box that allows him to move between parallel worlds.
Despite its richness and renown, that other Jason envies the life and family of the professor, his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and his son, so he replaces him in that universe, leaving the original Jason in a limbo of parallel realities. There, he has the opportunity to see how his life could have been if he had made a different and decisive decision in the past.
In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey as he tries to find his way back home, like Ulysses, to return to his true family and save them from the most terrifying enemy one can imagine: himself.
The protagonists of 'Dark Matter'
Alongside Edgerton and Connelly, the cast also includes Oakes Fegley (The Fabelmans) as Charlie, the couple's son. And Alice Braga (Murder at the end of the world) plays Dr. Amanda Lucas, a psychiatrist whose own life intertwines with Dessen's in the multiverse.
On the other hand, Jimmi Simpson (Westworld) is Ryan Holder, Dessen's friend and fellow physicist whose reunion with his university partner at a local tavern sets the plot in motion; Dayo Okeniyi (See) is Leighton Vance, the wealthy tech entrepreneur who runs a high-level research lab where Dessen developed the "box" for navigating the multiverse; and Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid's Tale) as Blaire Caplan, Daniela's friend who not only worked alongside Dessen as chief engineer on the groundbreaking device but also volunteered to be the first person to enter "the box".
Behind the scenes are Emmy-nominated director Jakob Verbruggen (The Alienist, Invasion), who directed the first three episodes; Celine Held (Servant) and Logan George (Modern Love), who directed the fourth and fifth episodes; Roxann Dawson (Foundation), who took charge of the sixth and seventh episodes; and Alik Sakharov (Game of Thrones, Ozark), Emmy winner, who directed the final two episodes.
They also have Dr. Clifford Johnson, director of the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Southern California, as a consultant for the series. In addition to reviewing all scripts and providing scientific notes, he also helped with the production design of some of our sets, especially the Velocity Lab hangar.
