When we meet Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) in Apple TV+’s Dark Matter, it’s quickly clear he’s a committed family man who cares deeply about his wife, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly), and their teenage son, Charlie (Oakes Fegley). But as a humble college professor who gave up what could’ve been a groundbreaking career in quantum physics, he sometimes still thinks about the road untraveled. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] That all changes when a mysterious masked man abducts Jason off the Chicago streets one night and transports him into an alternate version of his life where he chose work over family 15 years earlier.