Best Sci-Fi Series to Watch Now

Overview

When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide.

Cast

Ben Barnes, Joe Freeman, Simone Miller, Fionn Laird, Hannah Galway

Overview

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you’ve ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White’s missing daughter.

Director

Marco Turco

Cast

Fabrizio Gifuni, Vittoria Puccini, Branko Đurić, Michela Cescon, Thomas Trabacchi

Overview

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Cast

Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding

Duration

51 minutes

Overview

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel.

Cast

Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, Madeline Brewer, Max Minghella

Overview

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

Cast

Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey

Duration

73 minutes

Overview

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

Cast

Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Genevieve O’Reilly

Duration

40 minutes

Overview

When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America … and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their ’67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

Cast

Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins

Overview

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Cast

Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock

Overview

Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

Cast

Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson, Simone Kirby, Will Keen

Overview

Rick is a mentally-unbalanced but scientifically gifted old man who has recently reconnected with his family. He spends most of his time involving his young grandson Morty in dangerous, outlandish adventures throughout space and alternate universes. Compounded with Morty’s already unstable family life, these events cause Morty much distress at home and school.

Cast

Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke

Overview

Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.

Cast

Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn

Overview

After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.

Cast

Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Vivienne Acheampong, Patton Oswalt

Overview

After the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, technology is pitted against magic when Riri Williams, a young, genius inventor determined to make her mark on the world, returns to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins aka “The Hood.”

Cast

Dominique Thorne, Lyric Ross, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam, Anji White

Overview

Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan – long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Cast

Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Zeljko Ivanek, Mahina Napoleon

Duration

44 minutes

Overview

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Cast

Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Richard Rankin, Sophie Skelton

Overview

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda’s efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.

Cast

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim, Jamie Kennedy, Connor Gibbs, David Conrad

Overview

When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into extinction.

Cast

Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes

Overview

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

Cast

Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Cassidy Freeman, Justin Hartley

Overview

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Cast

Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Aaron Paul

Overview

In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet…even though it just wants to binge soap operas.

Cast

Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna