‘Black Mirror’ Meets ‘The Man in the High Castle’ in Apple TV’s Near-Perfect 2-Season Sci-Fi Series

'Black Mirror' Meets 'The Man in the High Castle' in Apple TV's Near-Perfect 2-Season Sci-Fi Series




Much like how a fable internalizes a moral lesson, the best science fiction doesn't use its core mechanisms to escape reality but to get closer to its truths. Using the fantastic as a lens to examine the fundamental aspects of human nature enables a clarity impossible to achieve with realism, as looking at life straight on doesn't account for what we don't fully admit to ourselves. In Apple TV's Dark Matter, the fantastic lens is the multiverse and quantum physics, used to make an abstract, internal regret tangible by posing a deceptively simple question and building its story around it: "Are you happy with your life?"


Much like how a fable internalizes a moral lesson, the best science fiction doesn't use its core mechanisms to escape reality but to get closer to its truths. Using the fantastic as a lens to examine the fundamental aspects of human nature enables a clarity impossible to achieve with realism, as looking at life straight on doesn't account for what we don't fully admit to ourselves. In Apple TV's Dark Matter, the fantastic lens is the multiverse and quantum physics, used to make an abstract, internal regret tangible by posing a deceptively simple question and building its story around it: "Are you happy with your life?"

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