*Warning: Contains spoilers for Dark Matter season 1 episode 9 on Apple TV+.* Sci-fi series Dark Matter has reached its dramatic conclusion, with a suitably ambiguous finale. The Apple TV+ 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.
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. While Jason 2 stole Jason 1's 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 – all of whom with their own reasons for wanting to be with Daniela and Charlie. With a literal horde of Jasons coming after them – even debating whether to make a 'lottery' to decide who gets the life or offering to 'timeshare' Daniela and Charlie – a select few did the right thing to get the family to safety.
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 – each one holding a different present day life – before Charlie chooses one and they step through as a unit into a new world, ensuring they couldn't be found. The only hint for the viewer of what l.