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Have you been keeping up with Apple TV+s trippy astronaut-gone-wild dramaConstellation?
To watchConstellationis to questionConstellation… and also your sanity.
(But not all of it.
Im not a miracle worker.)
Jo Ericsson
Universe A:Technically, the Jo from Universe A is dead.
Like so, so dead.
Out of legit terror that really no one should blame him for get off his back!
Freaky space and science stuff is happening!
Paul leaves Universe A Jos dead body up on the ISS in Universe B.
Now that all of thats out of the way, what about Jo as, like, a human?
Well, this version of Jo was apparently a little bit colder than the one we know more intimately.
On one hand, good for you, Frederic is very handsome!
And runs a Space Agency!
On the other: poor, sweet Magnus!
None of this matters much, though, because Jo from B is trapped in Universe A.
The few people who know exactly whats going on are helping NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, et al.
On the plus side, she can play the piano over in Universe A without ever having learned.
Sorry, there are very few plus sides to her situation!
I am looking for a silver lining here!
Jo from A smacks her head on the glass and dies.
Like Jo, Paul from A in Universe B begins to feel like hes losing his mind.
Universe B:Is Paul from Bs fate worse or better than his counterparts?
He swaps over into Universe A and immediately dies.
Its grisly, but at least he doesnt have to watch his entire world unravel?
I told you, Im looking for silver linings here.
Caldera becomes a national hero who goes on to win the Nobel Prize for his work in quantum physics.
Its NASAs greatest disaster and turned Caldera into a joke … and then an alcoholic depressive.
Just like Jo, the Commander Caldera originally of Universe A is trapped in Universe B and vice versa.
Inepisode three, we learn that all of Buds troubles stem from this Universe switch.
Hes also in a steamy little situation with Irene Lysenko, so thats nice.
Universe B:The CAL does not exist here.
We also know she has Stage 4 lymphoma and cannot get enough of Henry Caldera.
Who is to say, really.
This dead version of Irene goes by Valya and haunts Alice from As dreams!
Magnus
Universe A:A schoolteacher whose students do not know how to use glue!!
Universe B:A schoolteacher whose students do not know how to use glue!!
(She has good reason to act this way, but Mag does not know that!)
Jo and Magnuss daughter is going through the looking glass!
Alice, like Henry Bud Caldera, has interacted with her multiverse counterpart but is still alive.
Unlike the Calderas, the Alices have remained firmly put in their universes of origin.
How is this possible?
Or maybe its all about the power ofa mother-daughter bond?
Who is to say?
She can tell something is off before anyone else.
), and is haunted by dreams of the corpse of a female cosmonaut floating around the Earth.
If only she could get to her.
She might not understand quantum physics, but she understands her love for her mother.
Maybe the Alices can be an example of how multiverse counterparts can have a healthy, functional relationship.
Let the Alices be the examples.
Yes, that means you, Calderas.
