Best sci fi series imdb

Firefly is a character-driven space Western set 500 years in the future: Captain Mal and his ragtag crew on Serenity take legal and illegal jobs on the frontier, blending fast action, sharp wit, moral ambiguity and heartfelt ensemble drama. read more

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Black Mirror is a British anthology drama about near‑future tech—smart devices, surveillance, social media and AI—told in standalone, often chilling, satirical and emotional episodes that provoke ethical reflection. read more

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The Mandalorian follows bounty hunter Din Djarin who becomes guardian to the Force-sensitive child Grogu. It's an action-packed, character-driven Star Wars saga blending Western/samurai motifs, lore, humor and high production values. read more

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Westworld (2016) is a sci‑fi Western about a high‑tech Wild West park of lifelike android hosts. As they gain self‑awareness, the park’s illusions unravel, probing consciousness, free will, memory and moral decay. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Futurama follows Fry, a pizza boy frozen 1,000 years who wakes in 2999 and joins Planet Express. With Leela, Bender and crew, they face sci‑fi adventures mixing satire, absurd comedy, and heart. read more

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Two centuries on, a colonized, divided Solar System—Earth, Mars and the oppressed Belters—faces a conspiracy after a missing woman and a deep-space attack. A detective, a freighter officer and an Earth diplomat race to avert war. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The Handmaid’s Tale is a bleak dystopia following June/Offred in Gilead, where a fertility collapse forces fertile women into sexual servitude. Intense, disturbing and politically charged, it probes power, resistance and survival. read more

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Fringe follows FBI agent Olivia Dunham teaming with eccentric scientist Dr. Walter Bishop and his son Peter to probe fringe science—genetics, telepathy, alternate realities—and unravel a vast conspiracy. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) follows Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as they explore space, face aliens, moral dilemmas, time paradoxes, and celebrate optimism, adventure, and diversity. read more

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Utopia: online strangers uncover a cult comic that predicts disasters; hunted by a shadowy 'Network', they race to decode a lethal sequel amid paranoia, shocks, and ethical survival dilemmas. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Orphan Black is a tense sci-fi thriller: Sarah assumes a dead woman's identity and uncovers a deadly conspiracy of genetically identical clones. Tatiana Maslany plays multiple distinct sisters amid mystery, ethics and dark humor. read more

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) is an optimistic, fast-paced prequel following Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise on episodic exploratory missions—action, hard sci-fi, moral dilemmas, strong characters and nostalgia. read more

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Sense8 follows eight strangers worldwide who become mentally and emotionally linked, sharing skills and memories. As they bond, a secret organization hunts them—exploring identity, empathy, diversity and belonging. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Legion (2017) follows David Haller, long labeled schizophrenic, whose meeting with Syd reveals his hallucinations may be emerging psychic powers. Equal parts psychological drama, sci‑fi and surreal visual ride about identity, trauma and reality. read more

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

For All Mankind reimagines 1969 with the USSR landing on the Moon first, sparking decades of intensified space rivalry. The series blends political drama, technical challenges, spectacle and personal sacrifice in an alternate-history space race. read more

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Travelers (2016): Future operatives send consciousnesses to 21st-century hosts to alter history. Team navigates modern lives, tense missions and moral dilemmas, balancing sci‑fi mystery with character drama. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Altered Carbon: a gritty cyberpunk thriller where consciousness is digitized and bodies swapped. Ex‑soldier Takeshi Kovacs probes a wealthy man's suspicious death, blending noir mystery, brutal action and themes of identity, mortality and class. read more

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Set in 1962 alternate USA ruled by Nazis and Japan, The Man in the High Castle follows Juliana, who finds films showing the Allies won. A slow-burning, moral, political thriller about resistance, identity, and reality. read more

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Voyager and a Maquis crew are flung 75,000 light-years into the Delta Quadrant; Janeway must unite them for a 75-year, perilous journey home filled with alien foes, moral dilemmas and evolving crew bonds. read more

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Agent Carter follows Peggy Carter in 1946 as she juggles SSR secretarial duties and clandestine missions for Howard Stark, blending punchy espionage, noir detective work, period detail, sharp humor, and emotional stakes across two seasons. read more

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi