{"id":53863,"date":"2024-06-26T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2035341"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:08:09","slug":"dark-matter-boss-breaks-down-season-finale-and-how-he-decided-jasons-future","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/dark-matter-boss-breaks-down-season-finale-and-how-he-decided-jasons-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter boss breaks down season finale and how he decided Jason\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just what did that ambiguous ending mean? We spoke exclusively to showrunner Blake Crouch to find out. <\/p>

By Tilly Pearce\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 09:00 AM<\/p>

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*Warning: Contains spoilers for Dark Matter season 1 episode 9 on Apple TV+.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sci-fi series Dark Matter<\/a> has reached its dramatic conclusion, with a suitably ambiguous finale.<\/p>\n

The Apple TV+<\/a> show took viewers into a multiverse to explore the road less travelled, with leading man Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), his wife Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and teen son Charlie (Oakes Fegley), heading off into the great unknown together.<\/p>\n

The final episode, Entanglement, saw Jason 1 face off against multiple versions of himself, each of whom had the desire to take over his life.<\/p>\n

While Jason 2 stole Jason 1\u2019s identity to get away from the responsibility of his high-ranking (and slightly shady) job as a physicist for life as a teacher, husband and father, hundreds of alternate Jasons were in communication with each other \u2013 all of whom with their own reasons for wanting to be with Daniela and Charlie.<\/p>\n

With a literal horde of Jasons coming after them \u2013 even debating whether to make a \u2018lottery\u2019 to decide who gets the life or offering to \u2018timeshare\u2019 Daniela and Charlie \u2013 a select few did the right thing to get the family to safety.<\/p>\n

In the final moments of the show, and much like the novel the show is based on, the trio use the multiverse-accessing box together, head down the corridor of doors \u2013 each one holding a different present day life \u2013 before Charlie chooses one and they step through as a unit into a new world, ensuring they couldn\u2019t be found.<\/p>\n

The only hint for the viewer of what lies ahead for them is a beam of bright light.<\/p>\n

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Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, showrunner and novelist Blake Crouch explained that the Dessens\u2019 final fate was something they had planned from the outset.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always knew that it ended with the family going into the box as it is in the book,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played around with like a few moments of where that end might come, but, you know, ultimately it felt like the show wanted to end like the book ended \u2013 on that hopeful, uncertain moment as the door opens and light streams in and suddenly, it\u2019s just the audience and the corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite creating this left-of-normal reality from the beginning, creating the novel the show became based on, and using the opportunity in the making of the show to fix things he regretted in Jason\u2019s tale, Crouch admitted he has no idea where the family ends up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t. Once they step out, they\u2019re off on their journey and I\u2019m not with them anymore,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I kind of leave that to the audience to imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s sort of the magic of it,\u201d added executive producer Matt Tolmach. \u201cI was gonna say I think sort of the beauty of it is it then allows the viewer, the reader, to project what that looks like, whatever that is, wherever you think those characters are.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think sometimes that\u2019s a powerful thing in film, is to still allow the audience to imagine.\u201d<\/p>

While the ending remained ambiguous, Crouch and Tolmach were hesitant to reveal if they had any future plans for the series, should it be picked up for a second season.<\/p>\n

When asked whether they considered extending the Dessens\u2019 tale beyond the book, or turning Dark Matter into an anthology, Crouch said: \u201cI think we went into this open to the idea that there could be more, but it wasn\u2019t a situation where we declared \u2018Oh, it\u2019s this many seasons and this is one, two and three\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we end up doing more we\u2019ll just have to come up with other cool things.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pushed about what those cool things could be, Crouch joked: \u201cI have lots of ideas\u2026 he said coyly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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