Dark Matter has descended on Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, debuting the trailer for Season 2 of one of Apple TV‘s science fiction shows, premiering August 28.

“Jason Dessen, quantum physicist,” an intimidating voice opens the teaser clip, which con-goers got to experience in the San Diego Convention Center’s biggest auditorium. Someone is hunting Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) down, and it doesn’t seem to be an alternate version of himself.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its release this year, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. Season 1 of the series followed Jason Dessen (Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived.

Season 2 picks up with the Dessens as they settle into a quiet life in a world that finally seems safe, until the unimaginable forces them to run once again. Author Blake Crouch calls the new universe they’ve taken shelter in as World 26.

As Jason’s obsession with the Box deepens, Daniela’s (Jennifer Connelly) growing paranoia pushes her to the brink, and their son Charlie (Fegley) starves for a sense of stability as their family is threatened.Elsewhere, Amanda (Braga) and Ryan (Simpson) join forces in a desperate attempt to find their way home. With Blair (Brugel) determined to stop him, Leighton (Okeniyi) relentlessly chases his grand vision of creating a perfect world.

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Cast members Edgerton, Connelly, Alice Braga and Dayo Okeniyi as well as author Blake Crouch and executive producers Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry and Matt Tolmach were in attendance during Apple TV’s two-hour panel presentation, which opened with the cast of Matchbox: The Movie coming to the streamer Oct. 9.

The clip shows Jason standing before the box and reflecting on what happened in Season 1.

“One of the great conundrums of this show is finding a world where other versions of them are not there, don’t exist in some form or aren’t going to encroach on someone’s existence or life,” Edgerton told the Hall H crowd. “As an actor, quite often you go to work and you go, ‘Oh, I’ve been through this. I know loss, I know grief, I know happiness, I know love. ‘There are so many things that get served up in this show that you go ‘This will never happen in my life. When am I? … unless I’m on LSD.'”

Connelly’s Daniela expresses that she’s “scared of things that [she] see[s] in [Jason.] Then, someone wakes her up as she sleeps on a couch, and the shock that registers on her face reveals that it may not be any version of Jason, but rather, someone else.

“We have people exploring things that we can all relate to as people in really extraordinary ways,” Connelly said on the panel. “For my character, a lot of us in life recreate situations that maybe we haven’t quite resolved from our past, and we recreate those dynamics and relationships moving forward. That happens for Daniela in ways she’s never anticipated.”

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Alice Braga teased a “Utopian world” her character Amanda finds herself in come Season 2, where there is no climate change and everyone has empathy.

In addition to Edgerton, Connelly and Braga, the ensemble cast returning for season two includes Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi, Oakes Fegley, and Amanda Brugel. 

Apple also has “Dark Matter: The Official Podcast” hosted by author and showrunner Blake Crouch and executive producer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry launching alongside the Season 2 premiere with new podcast episodes rolling out alongside new episodes of the TV adaptation.

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