I’ve unsettled emotions in regards to the season 1 finale of Darkish Matter on Apple TV+ — episode 1.9 — they usually all level to a sequence eminently value watching and persevering with.

[Spoilers ahead … ]

I mentioned final week that the multitude of Jasons displaying up in a single world gave cinematic verite to the poster for the sequence.  However that essential scene close to the top of 1.9, with all of these Jasons, marshalled by their chief to let our Jason — Jason 1 — have the life he deserved with Daniela and Charlie — nicely, that scene epitomized the poster.

I additionally mentioned final week that I did not anticipate to see the completely satisfied ending that the ending of 1.8 was pointing to.  And we did see Jason 1 and Daniela 1 and Charlie 1 in household bliss for a part of 1.9, solely to have that taken away from them by a number of of the marauding Jasons.  However Jason 2 saved them — at the least, I feel that was Jason 2, I am by no means 100% positive — and obtained the group of Jasons to let the Jason 1 household go right into a world the place they might presumably have a really completely satisfied life.

That scene with the group of Jasons made me notice that I used to be watching not only a science fiction story however a horror story.  Crowds have been part of horror at the least for the reason that infamous city people with their torches in Frankenstein.  They weren’t carrying torches in Darkish Matter 1.9, they usually had been totally different variations of the identical individual, however they felt to me to have a kinship with these villagers in Frankenstein.  Mary Shelley’s and Blake Crouch’s tales, in spite of everything, are each vivid testaments to the horror that uncontrolled science can deliver.  The Twilight Zone typically targeted on this discipline of goals turned nightmares, too.

So, the Jason 1 household has a cheerful ending.  And Jason 2 sees the error of his methods and redeems himself. However there are an infinity of tales in that crowd of Jasons, and on this, our offscreen actuality, I envision a Canterbury Tales of Darkish Matter tales spanning years.