The Big Picture Apple TV+'s sci-fi series Dark Matter Season 1 has come to a close. For a show that wheels and deals in countless alternate realities, the paths not taken, and a stacked cast who play alternate versions of themselves, that finale left a door wide open for possibilities. For Pavia Prize-winner Ryan Holder, played by Emmy nominee Jimmi Simpson , we have a lot of questions.
A lot of us have a little too much fear to be like, “What if I really think about what would have happened?” So Blake and Jackie do this for us, and then they come to this, to me, very beautiful conclusion of gratitude and things as how they should be. I found it to be the most entertaining therapy session ever to be involved with this project. I think the show is possibly the best thing I've ever been a small part of. I think it's gorgeous, and I think it's also helpful.
SIMPSON: I think a lot of us don't understand. A lot of us are really fearful of change. I've chosen a career, like a lot of us, to be like, “Okay, whatever happens, I'm gonna roll with.” Most people, for instance, my father, with setting him up in the most ideal situation for him and his health and his well-being, is right now resisting it for something that would make him sadder, but it's familiar.
SIMPSON: 1000%. All of the things you're expressing are quantum theoretical possibilities beyond a shadow of a doubt. Especially when we're setting up the superposition and how close things can be and not be the same. It's all a possibility. Whether or not that's our storytellers’ intention, I would just speculate that maybe it's not about that nuance specifically, almost like those aberrations from what our story is. But I'll tell you what, it's a possibility.