TV Breakdown: Dark Matter (Syfy)

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Dark Matter is a brand new Syfy show that premiered on June 12th, 2015. It's based on a comic series of the same name, and there will be 13 episodes in the first season.

When I'm bored, I like to troll around on xfinity and find new summer shows, because all the shows I watch are done by the start of summer. I stumbled upon Dark Matter when looking up the premise of Bitten (another Syfy show) and decided to give it a try.

Right away, the show was hooking. The premise of the show is that six individuals awake on a ship, with no memories of who they are, and they're only help being an android originally programmed to basically kill them. By the end of the first episode, they find out the truth, and while I had an inkling of what to expect by the end, it wasn't what was revealed.

The first episode gave us a little bit of everything, some of which was a little expected. Each of the six had a defined roll that they were good out (a pilot, two fighters, two geniuses, and one diplomatish person) and the typical "one of us needs to be a leader!!" conversation was started by trigger happy Three (who wanted to be the leader), but two (one of the female geniuses) pretty much took charge and no! one! complained! It was fantastic, and it fit with Syfy's run of having a female in power/being more than just a love interest.

Overall, it was a good pilot episode. We got a taste of whats to come, and a little explanation on how the world works. I'm excited to see how the show will pan out, and how the crew will deal with having no memories, but knowing what they're capable of.

Dark Matter is on Syfy on Friday's at 10/9 central.