From Everything Everywhere All At Once to Marvel’s What If...?, everyone loves the multiverse. And yet, with nearly every corner of science fiction seemingly crowded by alternate timelines and parallel universes, how can these concepts ever seem new again?

The short answer might be found in a 2016 novel that is about to become Apple’s next big science fiction show. Based on the brief new trailer for Dark Matter, this might be the show to bring this trope back down to Earth.

Here’s why the pedigree for Dark Matter could indicate that this is one sci-fi show not to miss in 2024.

When the first season of Tokyo Vice premiered in 2022, the Max crime drama immediately earned attention thanks to a rather auspicious credit: “Directed by Michael Mann.”

The Heat filmmaker set the look and feel of the series with a moody, propulsive pilot following American journalist Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort) as he joins the staff of a major Tokyo newspaper and gets drawn into the city’s seedy criminal underworld. Mann also served as executive producer for the series, which J.T. Rogers created.

But with its second season, which premieres two of its 10 episodes today, Rogers and his team forge on without Mann. There was a good reason for his absence: “While we were shooting season two, he was in Italy making that little indie film called Ferrari,” Season 2 director Alan Poul jokes to Inverse.