Dark Matter Review – When Novels Don’t Translate to TV (TV Analysis)

Apple TV’s Dark Matter follows Jason Dessen, a physicist who gets abducted into an alternate version of his life—where someone else is living the life he could have had. What starts as a high-concept, mind-bending thriller about choice and identity quickly spirals as the series stays too close to the novel.

I was loving it… until it went left. Let’s talk about what happens when you adapt a novel into TV without taking the freedom to shift structure, pacing, and character arcs for the screen.

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