There’s a sci-fi “conspiracy-based psychological thriller” coming to Apple TV+, and the trailer for the limited series strongly suggests that space travel will completely and utterly f*** you up.
The limited series stars Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), and centers around an astronaut named Jo who comes home and finds key aspects of her life have changed. She now, for example, has a piano even though she didn’t have one before and has not trained to play one. More chillingly, her daughter doesn’t seem to be the daughter she left, suggesting that Jo launched off one version of Earth and crash-landed in an alternate reality.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Constellation stars Rapace as Jo—an astronaut who returns to Earth after a disaster in space—only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing. The action-packed space adventure is an exploration of the dark edges of human psychology, and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover all that she has lost.
In addition to Rapace and Banks, Constellation stars James D’Arcy (Agent Carter, Oppenheimer), Julian Looman (Emily in Paris), William Catlett (A Thousand and One), Barbara Sukowa (Voyager), and Rosie and Davina Coleman as Alice.
The series was created and written by Peter Harness (Wallander, The War of the Worlds) and has episodes directed by Michelle MacLaren (Shining Girls, Breaking Bad), Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall), and Joseph Cedar (Footnote).
Constellation will premiere on Apple TV+ on February 21, 2024 with the first three episodes, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday through March 27, 2024.
