Dark Matter 

Apple TV’s Dark Matter may come wrapped in glossier tech and fewer cubicles than Severance, but don’t be fooled—both series revel in the quiet horror of split identities and corporate puppeteering. Based on Blake Crouch’s novel, the show follows Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a mild-mannered physicist who’s abducted into a parallel universe by a more ambitious version of himself, forcing him into a cat-and-mouse game across alternate realities. Where Severance slices the self neatly in two with surgical precision, Dark Matter takes a sledgehammer to the soul, splintering reality with every jump.

Jason doesn’t just wrestle with duality—he’s hunted by the man he could’ve been. Like Severance’s Mark S. (Adam Scott), he’s trapped between grief and a synthetic peace, except this time the office is swapped for a multiverse-hopping nightmare. Both shows deliver corporate paranoia with a side of existential dread, and both ask the same brutal question: What part of you is really you when someone else—or something else—is calling the shots?