Constellation adds a dark and creepy tone to Apple’s growing sci-fi lineup

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Picture of Noomi Rapace wearing an astronaut’s helmet, looking at something anxiously in a scene from the sci-fi TV series Constellation.
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Slowly but surely, Apple TV Plus has morphed itself into arguably the premier destination for streaming science fiction. (Or at least streaming sci-fi not named Star Wars or Star Trek.) There are adaptations like Silo and Foundation; original stories like Invasion, For All Mankind, and Severance; and even a franchise spinoff with Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. There’s a nice range to the service’s offerings — and now it’s adding another flavor with the premiere of Constellation. In its first few episodes the show is dark, creepy, and will mess with your mind in a way that makes it just the thing for those already missing True Detective: Night Country.

The first three episodes of Constellation premiere on February 21st, and they follow an...

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source https://www.theverge.com/24065198/constellation-review-apple-tv-plus

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