In the most recent episode of Apple TV+’s Constellation, “Paul is Dead,” the story takes a dramatic turn when it shifts to a different world where astronaut Jo Ericsson tragically dies on the ISS but her coworker Paul Lancaster lives. The switch between parallel worlds makes the story even more complicated, making it harder to tell what is real and what is imagined.
Like the first show, the first part of this one starts with a replay of the events that led to the CAL experiment on the ISS. Jo, on the other hand, has a sad end this time. She is thrown against the glass and dies when the spaceship breaks down. Back on Earth, Magnus has to tell Alice, Jo’s daughter, the terrible news. Alice is having a hard time dealing with the death of her mother.
In this other world, Paul is Jo’s replacement, and he has to deal with his own problems. Like Jo did in the prime reality, he chooses to stay on the ISS to fix what’s broken. But he starts to see and hear strange things, like Jo’s body, which seemed to be dead, showing signs of life. This sets off a scary chain of events in which Paul is haunted by Jo, making it hard to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
Paul thinks his wife and daughter are the same as they were before he came back to Earth. People think his stories about the CAL project and Henry Caldera’s part in it are crazy, which makes him feel even more lost and alone.
At the same time, Alice is having a hard time accepting her mother’s death. She feels alone and lost. She starts to think that her mother might still be alive, which makes her have a heartbreaking argument with Paul, who insists that Jo might still be living.
Paul’s mental health gets worse, and he becomes concerned with finding Henry Caldera to get answers. His search ends in failure, though, when he learns that Henry Caldera is not who he thought he was. This adds to the mystery surrounding the CAL program.
In a separate story, Magnus tries to help Alice get better mentally, but he has trouble connecting with her the way her mother did. As they make their way to the family house in Vindelalven, Alice holds on to the hope of seeing her mother again, which represents a search for closure.
At the end of the show, there is a cliffhanger: Alice sees her mother coming up to the cabin, which makes a long-awaited reunion more likely. As the series goes deeper into the complicated ideas of parallel worlds and identity, Constellation continues to captivate viewers with its gripping stories and themes that make you think.
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