DARK MATTER Season 2
TV show review by David Blackwell
Airing Fridays on SyFy after KILLJOYS at
10/ 9 pm CT
The crew of the Raza find themselves as prisoners
on a high
security prison on a moon. Three of the
crew members (Portia, Marcus Boone, and) plan an escape form the prison (think
of it as DARK MATTER’s take on prison films and sci-fi movies like
FORTRESS). Meanwhile, Six feels
justified in turning the crew into the Galactic Authority while forces plan to
get rid of the crew of the Raza. A GA
officer, Commander Shaddick (Franka Potente) wants answer on the deaths of
15,000 people at the end of one of the episodes late in season one
The first two episodes of DARK MATTTER sets up
the start of
the season to resolve some questions left by the anticlimactic season one
finale. The first season two episode has
a shocking ending (by killing off one of the main characters) while the first
episode also introduces some new characters to the DARK MATTER universe. An
old associate shows up in the second
episode. DARK MATTER shakes up the
status quo of the show while also getting back to the status quo. Marcus
Boone learns about prison work and
the system of how things work inside the prison. I hope DARK MATTER can recapture
what I loved
about the first season before throwing some of it away with the cliffhanger of
season one. I thought KILLJOYS has
better world building than DARK MATTER does.
I do have some characters I love in the show like Boone, the android,
KILLJOYS Season 2
TV show review by David Blackwell
Airing Fridays on SyFy at 9/ 8
pm CT
KILLJOYS is a fun show with some humor as the
first episode
proves while also resolving one cliffhanger from season one and bringing up
some new questions. The first episode
picks up just days after the season one finale as the Killjoys Dutch and Johnny
look to rescue D’avin. The second episode
starts to explore what happened to Old
Town since the end of season
one. KILLJOYS continue to be a layered
sci-fi action show which still builds its universe more than DARK MATTER. The
first episode of the new season introduces
a female character (with a gun arm which sounds so Japanese sci-fi) who could
return in the future while giving more layers to Khlyen as the story makes it
look like there are people that Dutch needs protecting from and Khlyen might
not be the bad guy he appears to be.
D’avin’s situation of being back in the ranks of the Killjoys is quickly
resolved in the second episode before getting down to business of getting into Old
Town on a warrant. The second episode doesn’t waste time with
storytelling like the first episode of the new season (I liked Pree getting in
on the killjoy action). Also watch for the introduction of the new big bad,
company fixer Jelco, who isn’t a really nice guy by what he decides to do later
in the episode. They manage to touch on
a bigger arc while telling a story that new viewers can drop themselves
into I wonder where the other eight
episodes will go as the Killjoy teams may end up with some off-the-book
warrants while seeing what Khlyen’s real game is and who are the mysterious bad
guys that he saved D’Avin from.
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