"Constellation" is a sci-fi series that follows an astronaut's struggle to survive a critical situation. Despite her seemingly safe return to Earth, she finds herself in a chaotic mental state. The series blends elements from various films, such as the technical expertise of "Apollo 13," the cognitive distortion of confined space seen in "Gravity," and the disordered order of parallel universes as in "Coherence." However, "Constellation" offers more than just a textual interpretation. In the initial episodes, viewers find it challenging to distinguish between the two parallel narratives. Even by episode 5, with its massive four-parallel structure, completing the time-space trajectory loop within the limited 8 episodes proves to be a formidable task.

After a space disaster, Jo becomes a hero on Earth. However, as she grapples with loneliness and despair, she begins to doubt the authenticity of her world and herself. Whenever she notices something unusual in her life, such as her relationship with her daughter, the color of her car, or her piano playing skills, someone intentionally hinders her investigation into these anomalies. As a result, in the first half of the series, viewers naturally follow Jo's perspective to unravel the unfolding drama. Rather than attributing these anomalies to mental stress, they are more inclined to believe that authorities are concealing historical facts. Amidst this chaos, Jo seeks to evade all surveillance and uncover the truth through her own deductions.
"Constellation" focuses the audience's attention on a profound journey. Jo repeatedly faces an unknown fear, deeply immersed in memories of her long-lost daughter, Alice. She continually speculates about the cosmic secrets awaiting at the end of the tunnel. The multidimensional collapse at the distant end of the confined space evokes psychological fear in the audience. This allows viewers to empathize with Jo from her first-person perspective. As time and space lose their fundamental meaning, we are unable to anticipate the looming crisis behind us. Therefore, fear emerges from this unpredictable tension.

As the story progresses, Jo's relationship with her daughter Alice begins to stabilize. Jo decides to let go of trying to change the uncertain past and instead focuses on protecting her loved ones. She starts to hypnotize herself into believing she can lead a peaceful life, giving up her quest for truth.
However, Paul's sudden appearance shatters this newfound stability, leading to a complete breakdown in explanations about multiple universes. The reality depicted in the first half of the series is called into question. Is time in disarray? Are spaces overlapping? These questions remain unanswered.

From Jo's perspective, she brought the sacrificed Paul back to Earth and became an absolute hero in people's eyes. However, from Paul's perspective, Jo became an innocent victim, and the high-concept setting of the show - the appearance of the Cold Atom Lab (CAL) - became the key to solving the mystery. The CAL explores how to produce two different outcomes at the same time. So in Paul's consciousness, he received orders from the space agency to leave Jo's body behind and return alone. As a result, there was a slight deviation in the time sequence of two parallel universes, with one Jo returning to Earth and the other staying in space in different time states. Since then, the audience began to re-evaluate the truth and virtuality in this spiritual puzzle, wondering which reality is the real existence?

For soft science fiction shows, logicality and rigor are the most important design elements, but the director gradually abandoned the high-concept background laid out in the first half and created a more fantastical ending. The little girl with a rabbit keeps appearing, and the sacrificed astronaut has different lives in opposing time frames, which is understandable until now. But when the sixth sense under parallel universes can transcend time and space for communication, it brings about a distorted and surreal world. Jo can see another Alice's appearance through a mirror and even have a conversation with her, turning the show from a cool and restrained sci-fi puzzle into a fantasy narrative focused on family relationships.
The core of the series is also embedded with the American value of "love can transcend everything" in the logic framework of technology-first. All physics theories and grand narrative backgrounds make way for it. In this part, Alice's overly mature behavior and her perfect prediction of unknown events become the key to the setting of this "Schrodinger's cat". Jo, influenced by Alice, starts to overturn the dream she created to numb herself. The appearance of space debris also shifts Jo's beliefs and judgments, so she visits every relevant person from the past until she finds the answer she wants.

In constructing its narrative, "Constellation" relies heavily on seamless transitions between different spatial fields, which serves as a key element in the series' mind-bending storytelling. The director intentionally or unintentionally uses subtle changes in details to indicate shifts between parallel universes, thus confusing the audience's perception. On a broader scale, the series portrays two worlds, red and blue, and features four parallel narrative lines. However, the question arises: are there truly only two worlds and four narrative lines? The universe's state suggests a doubling existence based on the original premise, thereby enriching the series with infinite possibilities. Each possibility leads to the same inevitable ending. In the series' conclusion, "Constellation" maintains the uncertainty characteristic of American dramas. Paul unexpectedly awakens and questions his own body, indicating a shift in his spiritual world. Meanwhile, Jo, in the floating space, discovers an iPad that doesn't belong to her universe, leaving the audience in suspense for the next season.
This kind of dismantling and reconstruction of quantum entanglement and multiple universes allows the audience to see a new way of text intervention. In front of the chaotic and reality without absolute standards, who can truly define our known or habitual real world? Therefore, all possibilities occur as an unusual exploration in the infinite universe.

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