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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineMay 31, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Edgerton brings subtle shadings to each of his Jasons, and watching the original version try to find his way back to his world through a seemingly infinite array of portals makes for a wildly entertaining and compelling ride. [3 - 23 Jun 2024, p.4]
Radio TimesMay 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It's a perfectly chilling and beautiful sci-fi tale and, despite the complications of parallel worlds, boils down to a love story. It's the final two episodes that really elevate the series, with Edgerton's performance at its best and a chilling twist in the story injecting genuinely heart-racing danger into the story.
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The Mercury NewsMay 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The concept might seem silly, but the story by author Blake Crouch — who serves as showrunner and executive producer here and who also wrote many of the episodes — works, and challenges us to ponder what lengths we would go to if we were in not only Jason’s shoes but his wife Daniela’s as well (Connolly gives the role more dramatic shading than usual).
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May 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Dark Matter” is a visually stunning and heart-grabbing journey of the mind and heart featuring show-stopping performances by Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, who (along with a number of other cast members) are tasked with playing different versions of the same character and succeed in creating fully formed personas. It’s elevated acting. Also, not gonna lie to you, there are times when the storyline goes so deep down the rabbit hole you’ll feel as lost as the characters themselves.
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The PlaylistMay 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Dark Matter” may falter here and there, but its cerebral and emotional texture—about regret, how the subconscious marches to its own beat, why we make the wrong choices, and the fear of learning what we’re truly capable of, et al.—is some meaty, memorable stuff, worth the mind-altering trip.
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May 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If we’re being brutally honest, Dark Matter should probably be better than it is, but its basic storytelling shortcomings aren’t fully heinous. And it’s a price worth paying for some TV that absolutely flies when it’s on a roll and sticks a tricky landing in the end with the finesse of an Eastern European Olympic gymnast. Much like its author-turned-showrunner, this is definitely one to watch.
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May 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A lot of the concepts in “Dark Matter” work well. Edgerton is impressive in his depictions of both versions of Jason. .... Unfortunately, as fascinating as the character studies within “Dark Matter” are, the scientific aspects – especially regarding Jason2’s magical multiverse traveling machine, The Box, take away from the story’s core.
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The GuardianMay 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Crouch has made a few improvements to character arcs and closed a few loopholes from his page-turner of a book, but he has also stretched a propulsive plot that kept the physics accessible to more than nine hours that make you feel every minute. There is a lot of wheelspinning and longueurs that make you wish it was either a six-parter or perhaps a really good, tight four.
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The TelegraphMay 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Whether Dark Matter absorbs as drama depends on how much anyone can take of Edgerton. With a smudgy sort of straight face, he’s good at veering from vaguely hunky everyman to conscienceless brainiac. .... Whether he will turn out to be the hero or villain of his own life/lives plays out across nine episodes, which feels too many.
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May 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It can make you tired after awhile, keeping things sorted, and “Dark Matter” does go on for a while, though Crouch is careful to turn his midlife crisis drama into an action film at regular intervals. Things grow more and more complicated, as the very premise suggests they must, and at some point you may just be wondering how, or even if, Crouch is going to dig his protagonists out of the hole he’s dug for them; I’m sure some of you, smarter than I, will have worked it out.
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IndieWireMay 8, 2024
May 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It’s a series that doesn’t lack for ingenuity and, especially in the last two hours, ideas pop up that border on inspired, but the lack of tonal variation ultimately dooms Dark Matter. It’s an unrelenting dirge that could have benefitted from an occasional dose of fun and perhaps an occasional willingness to trust whimsy delivered without momentum-draining explanations.
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May 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Nine hours feels punishing. And even when the later installments finally start embracing the weirdness of the premise, the specific idea is introduced so poorly, it takes multiple scenes across two different episodes before it’s completely clear what’s happening. Too much of the earlier plot is so telegraphed that the audience is perpetually ahead of the characters; by the end, the reverse has happened, but too clumsily for the surprise to properly land.
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RogerEbert.comMay 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Characters repeat themselves simply to stretch runtime, and the whole project lacks the urgency needed to maintain the tension inherent in the story of a man whose life is stolen. Stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly do their best, but even these talented performers struggle to keep the stakes elevated over the length of a nine-episode season.
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