The Review at the End of the Universe
“Episode 21 – Stuff to Steal, People to Kill” Dark Matter gives us its version of the sci-fi classic alternate-reality episode in ‘Stuff to Steal, People to Kill’. And the big question that has to be asked whenever a show decides to use a trope is: did the show add anything new to the idea or…
“Episode 20 – She’s One of Them Now” Five’s key card gets its explanation in Dark Matter’s ‘She’s One of Them Now’, bringing the Raza crew into direct confrontation with potential season villain Alicia Reynaud. So far this corporate-elite problem solver has been sold as a force to be reckoned with but I think I’d share her current employer Ferrous…
“Episode 19 – We Should Have Seen This Coming” Dark Matter has been teasing out information about the two new members of the Raza crew for many episodes now but eventually one of them had to come to centre stage first. Would it be Devon and his drug habit? Maybe somebody would come chasing to…
“Episode 18 – We Voted Not to Space You” Are you one of those people hoping for a crossover between Dark Matter and Killjoys? If you are then I’ll bet that you loved this week’s opening scene, with the Android having to bring in a target who of course resists, leading to a serious backside-kicking of a bar fight….
“Episode 17 – We Were Family” Dark Matter this week builds heavily on the background plots of Three and The Android. It’s easy to forget that The Android also had her memory wiped in the first episode of season 1 and so also has a past to remember. Here though, it’s revealed that her emotional responses…
“Episode 16 – I’ve Seen the Other Side of You” Dark Matter has come to mean so much to me that it feels like a betrayal to not love an episode. Yet despite this feeling, I am going to say I wasn’t so taken with Episode 16. Not that there weren’t things to like in the…
Episode 15 – Kill Them All “Kill Them All” is a title that by itself promises to put the dark in Dark Matter, one of the three things we were told to expect in season 2. Episode 14 covered the others very well I thought – there being more world building through the corporations’ plotline and certainly One…
Episode 14 – Welcome to Your New Home So, Joseph Mallozzi does indeed come through on his promises for Dark Matter season 2 with a traumatic finish to its opening episode ‘Welcome to Your New Home’. We were told to look out for it putting the Dark in Dark Matter, that no-one is safe and…
So I’m channel hopping one day and I stumble upon the familiar face of Roger Cross and I think, “he was good in Continuum, wonder what he’s up to now?” And then I watched the 13 episodes of Dark Matter season 1 faithfully every week from that point on. What follows here then is going to be somewhat…
