Night Sky Season 1's Secret Meaning Explained
Warning: Contains spoilers for Night Sky season 1 and discussion of suicide.
Amazon’s science fiction drama Night Sky season 1 hides a secret deeper meaning beneath the surface. Night Sky is ostensibly about teleporters that can transport people around the world and beyond, and a mysterious cult that controls them. However, the characters and themes that this story is told around help to develop an allegory about something more grounded and serious.
In Night Sky, after their son, Michael York (Angus O’Brien) takes his own life, Irene (Sissy Spacek) and Franklin York (J.K. Simmons) discover a strange metal structure in their backyard. Buried beneath the surface and with a full tree grown on top of it, the ancient device is a teleporter that takes them to a deserted building on another planet. The couple keep the teleporter and their trips to the stars a secret for years, but when they find Jude (Chai Hansen) on the planet and in need of help, their day-to-day routine is drastically changed.
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While spending time on other planets, teleporters, and a strange orb that makes a table disappear are all fantastical, they’re not what define Night Sky. The realistic lives of the Yorks and their granddaughter Denise (Kiah McKirnan) take a front seat, and the science fiction elements of the show truly fuel the drama. Here is the full secret meaning behind Night Sky season 1.
While it is not revealed until late in Night Sky season 1, it is not a coincidence that Irene and Franklin find the teleporter in the immediate wake of Michael’s death. After Michael dies, Irene is intractable and stares at the old swing that Michael sat on a lot as a kid and where she had her last meeting
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