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Meanwhile, his wife gradually realizes that her husband is not her husband as the subtle clues pile up—his way of dressing, his renewed passion, his temper. “I don’t think it’s a show about contentment and settling,” Connelly says. “It’s about finding. At the center of it, you have this family, and you have this couple who kind of lose each other at some point in their marriage. They have to find each other again.”

She notes that this is a real-life phenomenon, not a sci-fi one: People change, sometimes irreconcilably, especially after a long time together. “There isn’t only one version of happiness that’s true,” Connelly says. “There are so many versions that we could choose in our lives. So I think there’s something kind of beautiful in this couple that reaffirms that, and [they choose] each other.”

Joining Jason1 in his search through the multiverse is Amanda (Alice Braga), the girlfriend of Jason2—who is one of the few people to believe his story when Jason1 awakens, bewildered and desperate, in his kidnapper’s home world. To her, he is the love of her life. To him, she is a stranger.