Dark Matter has a second season coming to Apple TV two years after the first one, based on the book by Blake Crouch, arrived on the streamer in May 2024.
Starring Joel Edgerton as Jason Dessen and Jennifer Connelly as Daniel Vargas, Season 2 picks up with the Dessens as they settle into a quiet life in a world that finally seems safe until they are forced to run again from the unimaginable. As Jason’s obsession with the Box deepens, Daniela’s (Connelly) growing paranoia pushes her to the brink, threatening to tear their fragile stability apart.
Elsewhere, Amanda (Braga) and Ryan (Simpson), who met up in the same alternate universe at the end of Season 1, unite to find their way home back to the original universe where Ryan won the Pavia prize. Blair (Brugel) is determined to stop Leighton (Okeniyi), who is chasing his grand vision of creating a perfect world.
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Find all the details about the Dark Matter Season 2 release schedule below:
When does Dark Matter Season 2 come out?
The second season of Apple TV’s Dark Matter premieres Friday, August 28.
How many episodes are in Dark Matter Season 2? Do they arrive weekly or all at once?
Season 2 contains 10 episodes, one more than Season 1’s nine. A new episode arrives every week on Fridays on Apple TV. The first two episodes will overlap with the penultimate and finale of Silo Season 3, another Apple TV science fiction book adaptation.
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The Dark Matter Season 2 finale will arrive right before Halloween 2026.
See the full release rollout for Dark Matter below:
- Friday, August 28: Episode 1
- Friday, Sept. 4: Episode 2
- Friday, Sept. 11: Episode 3
- Friday, Sept. 18: Episode 4
- Friday, Sept. 25: Episode 5
- Friday, Oct. 2: Episode 6
- Friday, Oct. 9: Episode 7
- Friday, Oct. 16: Episode 8
- Friday, Oct. 23: Episode 9
- Friday, Oct. 30: Episode 10 (FINALE)
Who is in the cast of Dark Matter?
In addition to Edgerton and Connelly, Dark Matter also stars Alice Braga as Amanda Lucas, Jimmi Simpson as Ryan Holder, Dayo Okeniyi as Leighton Vaqnce, Oakes Fegley as Charlie Dessen and Amanda Brugel as Blair Caplan.
Deadline exclusively reported that Brugel was upped to a series regular for Season 2 and that Chris Diamantopoulos joined the cast ahead of the next installment.
What happened in Dark Matter Season 1?
the first season watched an alternate version of Jason kidnap himself with the help of his own invention — The Box — that allows a person to go into five-dimensional superposition and visit various alternate realities in which they exist.
For the purposes of Season 1, the first Jason viewers met was Jason 1, and the one that kidnapped him was Jason 2. Each had something desirable the other wanted, with Jason 2 regretting not staying with Daniela to see out her pregnancy and Jason 1 questioning whether he was happy at his job teaching community college versus Jason 2’s success at creating the Box and winning the Pavia prize.