This article contains spoilers from Dark Matter season 1, episode 9, “Entanglement.”

Dark Matter creator Blake Crouch and series finale co-writer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry discuss the importance of a major setting in a potential season 2. Crouch wrote the novel of the same name that the Apple TV+ series is based on, with Crouch also serving as the series’ showrunner and head writer. Even though season 1 adapts the entirety of Crouch’s novel, the finale leaves room to further explore the established characters and the infinite possibilities of the multiverse, including the seemingly utopian world where Amanda Lucas (Alice Braga) and Ryan Holder (Jimmi Simpson) are seen meeting.

Speaking with Variety, Crouch and Ben-Zekry lent more insight into the world, which they call World 26, and teased its importance in a potential season 2. Out of all the worlds shown in Dark Matter season 1, World 26 was the world Ben-Zekry was most involved in creating and developing. She co-wrote episode 7, where World 26 is first introduced as Amanda decides to stay there, and it reappears in episode 9, which Ben-Zekry also co-wrote. Check out Ben-Zekry and Crouch’s comments below:

Ben-Zekry: Every world has its nickname: There’s Ash World and Water World, and people refer to this as Utopia World. But I didn’t want to call it that, because there is no such thing as a utopia — every place has its downside.

Crouch: [Ryan] knows who [Amanda] is — I won’t say how, because it could be a spoiler for future things. But he located her in a really cool way. He was stranded in this world with no ampules to get him home. But he knows she might be his lifeline back.

Ben-Zekry: That world is super important to us, because Ryan and Amanda are there. So if there’s a Season 2, you’ll see more of it.

Will Dark Matter Get A Second Season?

If Renewed, Dark Matter Would Go Beyond The Novel Since There Is No Source Material For Season 2.

Crouch and Ben-Zekry’s comments make the possibility of Dark Matter season 2 more intriguing between teases of World 26 not being as perfect as it seems, revealing how Ryan found Amanda, and whether he will make it home. Episode 7 seemed to give Amanda a mostly definitive conclusion with her fresh start in World 26, an ending made less definitive with her and Ryan crossing paths. Between what this means for her and Ryan, whose home universe now contains another version of himself and numerous versions of Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), there is already plenty for season 2 to explore.

Still, Ryan and Amanda were ultimately supporting characters, and the primary story of the main version of Jason reuniting with his wife, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly) and his son Charlie (Oakes Fegley), and getting their own fresh start in a new universe has already been told. A season 2 focused on Amanda and Ryan probably won’t happen, and incorporating the main version of the Dessen family threatens to cheapen Dark Matter season 1’s satisfying ending. Season 2 also doesn’t have any source material to adapt, having reached the end of Crouch’s novel.

It can be difficult to gauge the success and viewership of a streaming series, but Dark Matter was the most-watched of any streaming series during the week of May 9-May 15 when only episodes 1 and 2 were available. It has a respectable 81% critical score and 82% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes as well. If Apple TV+ deems it successful, and with the future story ideas Crouch and Ben-Zekry have, Dark Matter season 2 could still happen despite certain storytelling challenges.

Source: Variety