he pan-European venture (Apple TV+) is two tinny old plots—the astronaut who sees too much up there, and the astronaut who brings something unhelpful home—wrangled into pretzel-like knots by ’s Peter’s Jonathan Banks—primed to interfere with the very matter of the universe. Cue multiple realities, a story that keeps rewriting itself and an episode called “Paul Is Dead” where its Paul is visibly alive. This quantum plotting has a certain cool, hushed style, but chiefly demonstrates how drama needs a stable base for us to trust and invest in it.
